Replacing Grounds
 

guys I plan on purchasing a set of new grounds, but my problem is that I only know where one goes, and thats the valve cover one, and theirs 5 wires in the set. Sorry for the stupid question but I need you guys on this thanks...

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I don't know about everyone else, but I find it hard to imagine spending $50-80 on "special" wires that don't conduct electricity any better than regular old copper wire. I re-did my grounds with 4 gauge wire on my '90 CRX for probably a grand total of $10 at Home Depot. But I'm getting off track...

What year/make/model of car? The 2nd gen CRX has three grounds that I'm aware of:

1.) Valve cover to chassis
2.) Negative battery terminal to transmission
3.) Engine fusebox to thermostat housing

As far as the other two, you've got me...need to know more about your car. -Z

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I dont know if ths would work but im gonna give it a shot... I have some of that hose dress up kit thing... you know the braided hose well its pretty thick and i have some left over.. im going to braze it to a connector and use that for ground straps... it should be better than the stock ones i have right now

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dont forget negative terminal to chassis and tranny....
thats why asm's rex wouldn't start so thats another one.

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i changed mine, there wasnt a noticable diff. i used like 4gauge wire gold connectors (bling bling). only did two though, engine to headlight and tranny to frame rail. my battery is in the back and that has a negative from the battery to one of the mounting posts for the battery box...

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i still dont knwo why honda put that damn battery in that spot on the 88-91 crx's. has to be the worst placement ever.

im not surprised so many people do relocations on em.

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ghetto d i doubt your idea will be better than stock

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I bling bling all my ------- grounds, 4 gauge on the daily driver, and 1 ot on the race car, hah

Jeff

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ZAC, talk to me I wonna do it the homedepot way, is there anyway that you could send me a picture so that I could see what material you used, and I'm doing this cause it needs it nothing more than that I'm not one of those guys that need to have everything under the hood a color, I'm just a day-to-day driver who just loves to drive my 88 Honda CRX SI, completely stock engine, and all... thanks in advance..

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TurboFH, wheres the ground wire for the head lights located??????

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its the one from the valve cover to the headlight mounting thing. do i need to find a pic?

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Jeff's old mini-me:
https://www.homemadeturbo.com/turbo_...b/14b_DX_P.jpg
its the blue one...

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thats not mini me? arent the plugs on the other side of the valve cover on the 92-95 ex/si ?

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Dustin grabbed the wrong one I think..

https://www.homemadeturbo.com/turbo_...me_car_1_P.jpg

this one is the turbo mini-me T3

the one above is the Turbo D15b2 14b

Jeff

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my bad, maybe i just cant read ::) thought it was the mini-me turbo setup i was looking at, but it really was lookin like a non-VTEC head. either way the bright blue one is the ground i was talkin about

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ya, Didnt make a difference in this topic, a blue wire is a blue wire in those pics.

just to wrap up the grounds.

- neg battery terminal to chassis.
- valve cover to headlight housing area
- tranny to chassis

I believe the tranny to chassis and chassis to neg term on battery is all one wire just has 3 ends to it.. like a wire that has a inline spot to ground to chassis then continues to battery.

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Cool...I'd be happy to take some pics and do a little writeup for you if you still need help. Let me know. -Z