<U>My grounding kit I did was very simple :cool: ....all you need are as follow:</U>

- good length of wire....whatever size...from like NAPA or something
- wire cutters/splicers
- a copper terminal
- those like wire hook things...you'll see em the pics and know what I'm
talking about

First unplug your battery and make sure everything is good safety wise. remove the negative terminal and replace it with your new copper one:

now where you can find these copper terminals I dunno...my friend had it so just search around.....anyways...now find some good ground points around your engine bay...cut the wire to desired lengths, As you can see...if you closely follow the wire from the battery you can see my ground points, one of them is on my throttle body/intake manifold area:

now using those yellow hooks I was talking about( look below)...connect the wire to the bolts and the copper terminal:

Its really simple to do and it does help....it improves your battery ( i.e. headlights, interior lights/electronics, electronics all around, start up, etc.)...I also heard it improves your gas mileage and engine but I dunno if thats true.
hopefully this helps some one..I know its shotty instructions but its not hard so enjoi!

 

thanks! i was gonna do this today too...but i wanna find the parts first...did you get all urs from NAPA?

 

yes...I and I think it was a total cost of like $5-$7 or less....wicked awesome

 

I used 8 guage wire from radio shack.

 

wire brush the battery and metals around the engine bay.

did you sand down the spots before you screw the wires down?

 

yup....I did

 

nice diy!

free bump for you

 

how exactly does just better grouding your car help you? I have heard good things like better hp and mpg, ect. Why wouldn't honda just make it that way if it benifited that much? I am not trying to be an ***, i have just heard good things and want to know how it works. thanks again

great writeup

 

I thought I was the ground wire freak in my engine bay. Good DIY. Looks like I need more ground wires after looking at yours.

 

Nice job !
With as much rust and corrosion that you have I would use new bolts too....e.g. your throttle linkage area.

 

props man. i use high quality audio terminals at the battery and run 4ga to all my grounds. i do that as part of an engine swap + parts if the customer wants them. i think it is a good way to top off an engine swap. ill run 4ga to the tranny, 4ga to the strut tower, then 4ga from the trans to the body, then 2 4ga's one on each of the front corners of the valve cover. but good job nontheless man.

 

haha...ya the more the better but don't go crazy...lol.....basically the wires help the old battery terminals......I mean if they were like new terminals I guess you really don't need it but it just basically regains the lost power from old terminals and mybe it does help alittle more.....I mean just try it out...I mean it cost less the $7 bucks and tax a max of 20 mins to do...I dunno...trail and error it....put it on for like 2 days and then take it off to see if you notice a difference...i dunno...

 

EDIT: Those yellow thing you're talking about are called fork terminals but you can use ring terminals too.

 

thanks...ya I need new bolts....cars take quite a beating to harsh winters up here in Hew Hampshire

 

your wires look too thin. 4 guage would be better IMO but if it works for you then

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by civiccpedx &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">how exactly does just better grouding your car help you? I have heard good things like better hp and mpg, ect. Why wouldn't honda just make it that way if it benifited that much? I am not trying to be an ***, i have just heard good things and want to know how it works. thanks again

great writeup</TD></TR></TABLE>

I want to know this too.

 

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thats how it helps

 

Good job...

Just everyone keep in minid that if you are running an audio system, you should use the same gauge wire as the power wire going to your amp(s).

I am going to do this soon...but i need 1/0 gauge...argh

 

i just ran a wire from my negative terminal to my valve cover. i don't know what guage wire it was but its almost as thick around as a dime. it improved my startup. i don't know about gas mileage though.

 

To really make a difference you need to upgrade every ground wire

 

Not to be Mean but that looks horrible. All you see is a bunch of yellow connectors everywhere.

 

not sure if he's really going for looks...but i think more performance then looks. Hey if it helps and is cheap why not? Still have to do this...to lazy to get off comp and go to the store

 

ya I mean its not fo show bro but drop the ho and go.....find some dough....and....do this..lol.....doesn't hurt if your going for performance and I guess you could go for show and just slap nos stickers around the wires be all like.....extra shots of nos to the battery...creates insane power which is just 2 fast and 2 furious for your brain to handle....haha....

 

Yea i feel ya. But i already have one. The only thing i would change on your method is w distrtbution block and thicker wire, and maybe some gold connectors.

 

Where exactly did you ground everything? I was thinking of doing this to get more power for electronics, like lights, and radio connection.

All i really see is on the fenderwall and the throttle body bracket.