I was just wondering what you guys thought of the Ground wire hype. I think that it is just that...hype. Does anybody have any information about them. How they work and why?

 

no, they don't.

 

I added a custom grounding system to my Honda and the only on that really made a significant difference was the ground ran from my throttle body/intake manifold to my chassy. "I" felt their was better throttle body response/reaction with the peddle.

 

Better grounds = cleaner signals, more efficient in running the electronics and safer for protecting some components, but wouldnt make power, engine mods make power

 

If you have a sound system then they can be useful, I think the reduce the stress on the alternator, when I made a grounding kit, I did a few things, adjusted throttle cable, "recharged" the air filter, after that my car seemed alot smoother, but probly a combo of the things.

 

http://www.sunautomobile.com/

i got the Hyper Voltage System and the Hyper Ground System.
I don't feel the gain of horsepower but my sound systems sound much better

Hope that helps.

 

it doesn't necessarily add any power. what it does is increase engine response, gives you (if any at all) more low end torque (on my nissan it REALY helped out a lot). you'll get brighter headlights, cabin lights, and better radio reception. Also the engine will rev smoother due to the fact that the upgraded grounding does not transmit as much of the vibration/frequency from the engine to the ecu. I have one of the ebay 8guage kits on my nissan sentra.

 

Ground strap kits make little to no difference on Hondas. Honda did a good job of grounding the car from the factory. Put the money elsewhere.

 

yeah it barely does ****, if you really are wanting to do it, at least make your own, get about 15-20 ft of 8 ga wire and like 16-20 spade terminals and it will cost you like 20-25 bucks

 

yea it would be hella cheap to do it your self. I paid something like $9 for the kit on ebay. It came with like 7four foot 8ga. wires and a nice terminal.

 

To add another question to this ground wire page,

when i swapped my b16 i had no gorund wires. the engine as it sits in the car now has maybe one ground wire from the original ground wires from honda.

would adding a after market kit help me out??

i get alot of load on my alternator from lights and other electrical things just by simply turning them on. even my rpms bump up and down when i use simple electrical features like brake lights and turn signals. thx

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by KillaB- &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">To add another question to this ground wire page,

when i swapped my b16 i had no gorund wires. the engine as it sits in the car now has maybe one ground wire from the original ground wires from honda.

would adding a after market kit help me out??

i get alot of load on my alternator from lights and other electrical things just by simply turning them on. even my rpms bump up and down when i use simple electrical features like brake lights and turn signals. thx</TD></TR></TABLE>

adding ground wires will result in less resistance, more current flow. dont just go and ground everything there are some things to ground and some dat do not need to

 

if you check out most of the high end kits you can make your own and just see where they groud theres, usually tb, vtec, valve cover, block, head, tranny, intake mani, maybe fuel rail and dist. with some of the **** that is really clost like the dist and vtec you can just make looping ground wires so you dont waste as much wire

 

DIY Ground wires.

Get 20-25 ft of 4 or 8 gauge wires. Get the connectors and do it yourself. pretty simple actually.

 

ive seen the ground wire kit on a prelude with just basic mods and it added 3-5 hp to the wheels....this is the hyper ground kit that goes for about 100 dollars. the DIY kits do help but from what i have seen do not give the same gains. I think that paying a 100 dollars for some ground wires is worth it because you pay that much from an intake that makes about the same hp.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by AzNpRiD3 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">ive seen the ground wire kit on a prelude with just basic mods and it added 3-5 hp to the wheels....this is the hyper ground kit that goes for about 100 dollars. the DIY kits do help but from what i have seen do not give the same gains. I think that paying a 100 dollars for some ground wires is worth it because you pay that much from an intake that makes about the same hp.</TD></TR></TABLE> okay so it added '3-5hp to the wheels' ???? how do you know that? did you see a dyno of it? are you just fanboi'ng up the site. Please explain why somehting (the diy kits) do not give the same gains. either shut the **** up or back your **** up.

 

there are dynos of gains on sites like the power pages of import tuner and hondatuning. also on sunautomobile.com and hks sites. they help realize more power in some cases and in others the stock wires do just fine. im sure there are more dynos out thier thats all i could list off the top of my head.
oh and one more thing. buying 6 gauge or 8gauge wires from automotive shops or home depot are not even equal to the stock honda ground wires. id dont see how these diy kits help at all. read up on sunautomobile kit or apex's kit or maybe hks's kit they fabricate them much better than simple 8guage wire.

 

i have both, the Hyper voltage system and the Hyper Ground system on my car. i can definitely tell you that it make CD sound much more clearer and the launch is much smoother. this is the best company that make ground wires. email me if you need pictures with my ek.

sunautomobile.com

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by KillaB- &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote"> read up on sunautomobile kit or apex's kit or maybe hks's kit they fabricate them much better than simple 8guage wire.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Apex's kit seems like the nicest one, it has a built in filter to prevent fluctuations and cleans out the power. Not to jack the thread but anybody have experience with this one?

 

save money and DIY. and the rest of the money, swap or turbo

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by AzNpRiD3 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">ive seen the ground wire kit on a prelude with just basic mods and it added 3-5 hp to the wheels....this is the hyper ground kit that goes for about 100 dollars. the DIY kits do help but from what i have seen do not give the same gains. I think that paying a 100 dollars for some ground wires is worth it because you pay that much from an intake that makes about the same hp.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Bullshit.

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by KillaB- &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">there are dynos of gains on sites like the power pages of import tuner and hondatuning. also on sunautomobile.com and hks sites. they help realize more power in some cases and in others the stock wires do just fine. im sure there are more dynos out thier thats all i could list off the top of my head.
oh and one more thing. buying 6 gauge or 8gauge wires from automotive shops or home depot are not even equal to the stock honda ground wires. id dont see how these diy kits help at all. read up on sunautomobile kit or apex's kit or maybe hks's kit they fabricate them much better than simple 8guage wire.</TD></TR></TABLE>

And more bullshit.

 

check it out fool, befor you try to flame me. ignorant people like you bring down h-t.

 

Only thing I'd use em for is if I planned on running super bright headlight bulbs. Kept blowing bulbs in my car til I did a grounding kit.

 

agreed, all my friends think h-t is gay cause theres so many homo's on it, all you guys with three trillion posts of 5 percent actually helping people 95 percent trying to flame

 

if you look at the manfctr's website of course they are going to say they make 5 horsepower, just like they say an intake will add 15 and just like the aebs intake manifold i just ordered said it makes 20 over the itr intake mani...
if you spend $100 on wires then you must be on crack or have a mad cash flow