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Old May 11, 2003 | 06:41 PM
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Grounding... is it bad to.....

is it bad to ground 2 areas to 1 spot??? eg. leading and trailing coil to the same spot???
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Old May 11, 2003 | 07:10 PM
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Nope, it's just fine as long as it's not like a tiny wire you're grounding them to, if it's a spot on the frame or something it's just fine.
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Old May 11, 2003 | 07:20 PM
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its even better.. because you know that spot has a solid ground, so USE it! (assuming its on the chassis or near a decent gauge wire going to the battery ground)

if it were plausable, id run a ground wire from the battery to EVERYTHING.. except the um.. power wires and such..
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Old May 12, 2003 | 04:19 AM
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There's nothing wrong with it, but since the two coils are at opposite ends of the engine bay I'm not sure why you'd bother. Find somewhere closer.
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Old May 12, 2003 | 06:46 AM
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The only ground for the coil assy is thru the chassis of the coil assy to the .....chassis of the car. Where the coil assy attaches to the car. Three studs and nuts. It's difficult for me to see how adding a wire to the coil chassis will do squat.
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Old May 12, 2003 | 08:45 AM
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If your firewall ground has gotten weak, and you have not noticed it, an engine to coil mount ground will seem like a miracle!
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Old May 12, 2003 | 09:39 PM
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thanks guys.... maybe when i get time to take pics ill show all what the grounding looks like.. i bought these grounding wires from canadian tire... that look like braided stainless steel but is actually copper.... pretty nice ....
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Old May 12, 2003 | 09:45 PM
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the only ground you need is from the postive terminal to the chassis. Plus, when you add that ground you get this cool spark effect under the hood for a while.
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ive heard on negative grounding.... now i am really confused...... does it make a difference when grounding (-) or (+) to the chassis????
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Old May 12, 2003 | 09:54 PM
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i'm sorry if I confused you, I was joking. NEVER attach the positive (+) to the chassis!
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Old May 12, 2003 | 09:54 PM
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Uhh, do NOT ground the positive. THat was a horribly misplaced joke that should've had more thought behind it. That'll blow fry a lot of ****.
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Old May 12, 2003 | 10:14 PM
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A few probably took you seriously, I bet. That's no Joke dude!
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