Relisys190

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Ok, here's a simple one. Again about grounding my FC

Just answer yes or no, or put some more input on a better mounting spot....

From Negitive on battery to strut tower...
Than: from strut tower to engine block...
Than: from Altenator bracket (mount) back to Negitive on Battery...

Will that work? will it help? will it blow up?


argg.. this charging system stuff SUCKS!

Markus

1987RX7guy

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You know you posted this three times.

I don't know about the alternator the then - post

Relisys190

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yea i didnt mean to post three times. I clicked three times and it did nothing. went to get something to drink and it was on there three times... sorry.

From the Altenator Mounting bracket, than back to the neg on the batt. that wouldnt work?

SureShot

It would be redundant.
The one heavy ground to the block handles both starting & charging current.
The others are to clean up sensor signals.

Drifter101

What is yes alex? on the i am an idiot, now ill take how to use the rx7 club search for 600.

NZConvertible

There's no need to mess up the engine bay by going to the strut tower. The three I installed went from the intake mainfold to the firewall, the bell housing to the firewall and the battery negative terminal to the leading coil mounting bolt. This keeps the wire lengths short and out of the way.

banzaitoyota

I just use the stock hole that the factory uses on the strut tower: No messing up anything

Bebesito21

crap....i thought this was a poll.

skyypilot

COngrats. You aren't an idiot. The last wire is not necessary, but hey, it wont hurt either.....

ponykiller

Perfect. Be sure and use a BIG gauge wire (like 4 or 6 gauge). You could even go bigger to be really sure, but that is not entirely necessary.

And like skyypilot said, the loop back to the negative terminal is not really necesary for how few connections you are making. If you were planning on making 5+ connections in the engine bay, then I would suggest making the loop back to the negative battery terminal, but for your use you do not need to do that.

NZConvertible

I meant that by using the locations I suggested you wouldn't need to run long wires back and forth to the strut tower, making it look messy. There's no need to go that far when there are suitable chassis grounding points closer that hide the wires completely.

Black13B

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personally i dont find any amount of grounds to be redundant.. the more you have the more solid the ground is.. but, given, at that point you would have PLENTY of solid ground, but still.. more ground does more help than hinder..