today i came home from work and put my new motor mount inserts in. i was all happy my motor wasent moving anymore. i get my brand new zex nitrous box tomorrow. i paid 40 bux to get it 3 day air here so i could race on friday. but my car had other plans............

crispy


the worst part. correct me if im wrong but i WILL need a whole new harness for my car right?








i was sitting watchin PINKS when my neighbor ran over saying my car was smoking. i ran outside to see my hood with a big black spot and smoke rooling out of the hood. the battery grounded out on the intake. ****** EFs and there gay battery placement. i was just going to order a oddessy battery too cause i dident want this to happen. my and a good friend of mine are going to try to redo all we can. it will take alot of work, but this car is my baby and was pretty clean, with only 75k original miles on it. i got to atleast try to fix it. its gonna suck but i love the car to much


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Modified by 91tealhatch at 2:49 PM 11/12/2007

 

Man........****'ll buff out, j/p that REALLY sucks hope you get er goin again

 

anybody know if i could just put a si or hf harness in there now since i have to change the whole harness???? my friend had a complete hf harness

 

ouch..get this thing back up and running!!

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by 91tealhatch &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">the battery grounded out on the intake. </TD></TR></TABLE>

well, yeah.

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by 91tealhatch &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote"> ****** EFs and there gay battery placement. </TD></TR></TABLE>

dont blame it on the car either.... you were the one who last wrenched on it.

 

This thread has changed my mind on purchasing a cold air intake

 

and people call me ghetto when i cover customers intakes with electrical tape around the battery post area.

but you can't blame the car,,after all, these are aftermarket parts..

doesnt look that bad though,,new distributor,fuse box,wiring harness,spark plug wires,battery,hood (maybe)..but looks like alot of plugs got fried to

 

i relocated my battery to the rear.

 

shitsweak dude.....a freinds car did the same thing a few days ago while we were driving....burnt through a brake hardline....im glad we caught it before it toasted the harness....*waits for Ghett0_ed to chime in*...

 

DUDE... Thats gonna be a pain in the *** to redo but good luck and keep truckin.

 

sorry to tell you this but it was your fault! look at the battery terminal and where you placed it.......


rubber boots are like a buck and are cheap insurance!

for blaming the car

 

holy crap man that really sucks. i hope you get it back up and running again soon. I dont know why so many people have problems with the battery grounding out on the cai though. sure you could relocate the batt. to the trunk but all i did was reverse the battery so the terminals are now on the opposite side towards the distributor and theres nothing for the neg. or pos. terminal to hit. and i have a rubber cover on the pos. terminal just for good measure. I recommend everyone should do this atleast, or move the battery to the trunk altogether.

 

don't worry. just find a junker and replace the parts and your ready to rock and roll!

fixing it is always the fun part.

 

If your car is a dx then you have to do a dx harness and do a mpfi swap.

If you use the si harness then you have to swap the cabin harness as well.

It would be alot of work to do it.

 

Had the same **** happen to me before. I was lucky and got to it in time. Thats why i relocated the battery in every ef i have owned.

 

I dunno If I could handle dealingwith that mess at all. I'd pull the motor out, replace everything and while I was at it, do a wire tuck.

Good Luck

 

This only happens when the positive terminal comes in contact with an engine ground right(in this case CAI)?? What I mean is if the neg terminal had been touching the cai nothing would have happened right?

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Mr.Death &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">This only happens when the positive terminal comes in contact with an engine ground right(in this case CAI)?? What I mean is if the neg terminal had been touching the cai nothing would have happened right?</TD></TR></TABLE>

That is correct, negative cable is just ground...this is why you see a lot of people out there wrapping their intake tubes with electrical tape lol .

 

How about buying an intake that mounts up properly, and having a secured battery in the tray? Why don't people just do that?

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by burnout8488 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">How about buying an intake that mounts up properly, and having a secured battery in the tray? Why don't people just do that?</TD></TR></TABLE>


it looks like the battery has the stock tie down, but to the intake just mounted by the silicon coupler on the intake.

Sucks that it happened but can't blame the car.

 

&lt;---plastic CAI, good thing i didnt buy one of those cheap e-gay metal ones, cause my plastic intake tube is all scuffed from the terminal rubbing against it !!!

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by 91tealhatch &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote"> the battery grounded out on the intake. ****** EFs and there gay battery placement. </TD></TR></TABLE> sorry to hear, first mod I did with my CAI was place a piece of foam on the intake and warp it with tape... sorry to hear

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by rbwdriven &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">If your car is a dx then you have to do a dx harness and do a mpfi swap.

If you use the si harness then you have to swap the cabin harness as well.

It would be alot of work to do it.</TD></TR></TABLE>


did you even look at the pictures? its already MPFI.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by rbwdriven &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">If your car is a dx then you have to do a dx harness and do a mpfi swap.

If you use the si harness then you have to swap the cabin harness as well.

It would be alot of work to do it.</TD></TR></TABLE> LOL to you

 

WOW that sucks man.

THe FIRST damn thing I did was protect the intake from the battery, and then relocated the battery all together.