I got a Ground Wire Kit from Circle Earth System. I need some help installing this on a 4Th Gen Prelude. Does anyone have a Diargram on how a kit like this is installed? or at least a diagram of the stock Ground Wiring on the 4th Gen?

I did a search but I didn't find anything on the prelude section. Any help or tips I'll appreciate.

Thanks

 

I've seen a lot of grounding kits on ebay... but they say they have aluminum plate and aluminum battery terminal.. wouldn't the aluminum not give a very good ground? I don't mean to thread jack but this has been in the archive for a while...

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by VTECRaZeR &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I got a Ground Wire Kit from Circle Earth System. I need some help installing this on a 4Th Gen Prelude. Does anyone have a Diargram on how a kit like this is installed? or at least a diagram of the stock Ground Wiring on the 4th Gen?

I did a search but I didn't find anything on the prelude section. Any help or tips I'll appreciate.

Thanks</TD></TR></TABLE>

the kit you got didn't come with a pic for which lenghts go where? man how much did you pay for that crap just curious

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by darkspector &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I've seen a lot of grounding kits on ebay... but they say they have aluminum plate and aluminum battery terminal.. wouldn't the aluminum not give a very good ground? I don't mean to thread jack but this has been in the archive for a while...</TD></TR></TABLE> aluminum sucks, you want copper terminals , i made my own grounds and they are copper terminals plated with a i think tin..

but if you don't have directions just guess.. i grounded from my battery to my chassis.. from the throttle body to the chasis, battery to coil mount, and from the cam cap over the distributor to the battery

edit: i just got a large lenght of welding wire, its very thin strand with many many strands, and then bought the terminals

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by VTECRaZeR &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I got a Ground Wire Kit from Circle Earth System. I need some help installing this on a 4Th Gen Prelude. Does anyone have a Diargram on how a kit like this is installed? or at least a diagram of the stock Ground Wiring on the 4th Gen?

I did a search but I didn't find anything on the prelude section. Any help or tips I'll appreciate.

Thanks</TD></TR></TABLE>

First sort out the length of the wires, from longest to shortest or the other way. Depend on how far away the grounding point to the negative terminal, use the proper length wire. This is what I did on mine:
Alternator
Starter
Block
Valve cover
Throttle body
Intake manifold
Transmission
Chassis

There is no specific way to hook this up. People do this on dyno to find the good ground points. It is just trial and error man.

 

although you want the shortest ground possible.... to maximise potential... that's what I hear

 

I have a question, i know this gentleman purchased a grounding kit, well my question is, if the one he owns is slightly in question, can someone point me in the right direction of getting a good one, such as, who makes a good one?

 

make your own... my question is where to get good ground wire??? is audio groudwire for sound systems a good wire to use?

 

i guess a good 4 gauge wire would be good right? Or is that bad? ANyone?

 

Replacing the battery to chassis ground with new 4 gauge is very good, and replacing the engine to chassis ground on the drivers side motor mount with 8 gauge is recommended too.

HOWEVER, these "grounding kits" I think are pretty pointless. ESPECIALLY since they tell you to ground aluminum components. Aluminum doesn't even conduct electricity well to begin with.

Replacing the grounds I mentioned above it more than enough.

brad


Modified by aneurysm at 3:17 PM 5/29/2005

 

oh, so i get it, basically only a few of the wires people usually ground are actually of use, i get it. ALuminum, wait, the wire is aluminum? I dont get it, shouldnt the wire be copper?

 

he's just talking about the hardware used to ground... most of the cheap kits i've seen use aluminum terminals not copper or something else...

 

A while ago I bought a ground wire kit from Aerospeed and it was pretty good. Had copper terminals and good quality wire.

 

Im running HKS earth grounding kit, here are my points:

alternator
valve cover
itb
vtec soleniod
tranny
starter
chassis

 

bringing this back from the dead;

When you guys grounded the starter, alt, etc, did you just find the nearest bolt, or is there a specific place to ground these things? Thanks

 

i was reading in a magazine (i think it was honda tuning) that sun attempted making a grounding system for the prelude and only lost power. I dunno why this is but I just avoided it.

 

i was thinking of replacing all my grounds myself with some leftover amp wire i have. all my grounds are nasty corroded and falling apart. can someone show me some pics or explain where those grounds i should replace are?

 

i made my own. i went valve cover, distributor, alternator, intake manifold, tranny and chassis. ill be dynoing in a couple weeks and we can see if im making anymore power than usual. all im running is a short ram, full cat back, nology wires, a tuned set of cam gears, no power steering, and a soon to be tuned power enterprise a/f controller.

 

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the kit you got didn't come with a pic for which lenghts go where? man how much did you pay for that crap just curious

aluminum sucks, you want copper terminals , i made my own grounds and they are copper terminals plated with a i think tin..

but if you don't have directions just guess.. i grounded from my battery to my chassis.. from the throttle body to the chasis, battery to coil mount, and from the cam cap over the distributor to the battery

edit: i just got a large lenght of welding wire, its very thin strand with many many strands, and then bought the terminals</TD></TR></TABLE>
i made my own grounds too... most with 4gauge wire and few with 8gauge . I use a verry good quality copper wire and gold plated terinals, the one that use for high power sound systems and cost me way less than the junk ground kit they sell and with more ground points...

just curius... any pics of your engine???

 

I have the apexi one. I havent installed it yet. A guy up at the performance shop near me said he installed one on a civic and definitly felt a difference.

 

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hear those are just a shiney box with a led light inside and a bunch of BS. Not sure what forum I was on but they were doing dyno testing on all the units with the same car. And overall it was only helpfull to the car if the current system was falling apart or just crap. So just some things to think about. Keep us posted.

 

so does anyone know or have a do it your self ground kit instruction this...or basically where you can get the plate but in copper instead of alluminum like they sell on ebay...