I was wondering what gauge wire I should use to reground my engine? My grounds seem to be in pretty bad shape.

 

Most people use 4 gauge. I used 0.

 

i was thinking into this the other day at work. there isnt any benefit grounding with bigger wire than what is needed. in residential wiring. if you using 12 wire which is 20 amps youll use a 14 ground. all romex comes this way the ground is a size under what ur run. i havnt looked but the wire looks like its a 6 stock on some those grounds. replace it with a 6 just get wire that has higher % copper. if yall think im wrong or stupid let me now im open to help like i said im basing that off of residential wiring.

 

sweet dude, so 6 is probly best huh. Do you think going even the slight bit bigger would help at all? like a 4g. Or is there absolutly no benefit? After I'm done I'm just hopin for a smoother idle really, its idles a lil rough so I'm doing a basic tune up.

 

im not sure what stock is. ill havta check again. but i dont c why the stock wire size isnt enough. you can upgrade its only gunna rly hurt your wallet. the biggest thing to look at isnt size its % copper. that whats gunna effect the flow the most not the size. for wire with high copper its best to look into speaker system wires. or order it from a shop

 

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here is what size wire you want to use

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with ground wires, you really cant go too big, all their goal is is to give a zero volt reference, so even if they get too big, and have a large amount of resistance, that is just a further voltage drop, so the same goal is achieved

use zero guage

 

yeah i agree lol but you wouldn't necessarily need bigger. o well im done with this topic lol ima go buy me some w/e size has the highest % copper and not full of other elements. just for ***** and giggles i though about buying 3/0 which can carry 225 amps lol

 

holy **** 3/0 lol

not that big

use 1/0 at biggest

 

i know lol dont think im really gunna do it ***** almost 4 bux a ft. would be funny tho

 

thanks for the help fellas

 

I used 4awg as well, the one thicker cable that grounds near the botom of the tranny, i used 2-4awg cables. While I did this I also did my positive cables to 4awg, ran them all to a distribution block and ran a single 0 awg cable to the battery to clean up the bay a little.