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Old Sep 9, 2003 | 05:38 PM
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A friend of mine just bought a 'circular grounding kit' for his Lexus. Its basically a few 4awg cables that connect the primary grounding point to the battery to a few other points in the engine bay.

Does anyone have any comments on these kits?

I will be replacing my battery soon, and want to sort out the underhood wiring. In stock form, the battery has a single 8awg ground cable connecting to the strut tower. I am using a 4awg wire to my trunk to power my xtant. Would it make sense to use a 1/0awg ground to the strut tower? or should I just stick with a 4awg. Will it make any difference?

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Old Sep 9, 2003 | 08:35 PM
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I upgraded both my battery to frame connection and engine to frame connection with the same size as my run to the back. 2ga. Just use the same ga as your run to the back. Using anything bigger than the run is to the back is useless.

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Old Sep 10, 2003 | 11:39 AM
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No way in hell I'm paying $300 for 10 feet of 8awg wire and some crimp rings. [img]graemlins/freak.gif[/img] I will definatly be doing anything like that myself. I'm just curious about ways to improve grounding under the hood.

Btw, where can you get welding wire?
Old Sep 10, 2003 | 12:13 PM
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Originally posted by lemonlime:
No way in hell I'm paying $300 for 10 feet of 8awg wire and some crimp rings. [img]graemlins/freak.gif[/img] I will definatly be doing anything like that myself. I'm just curious about ways to improve grounding under the hood.

Btw, where can you get welding wire?
Princess auto sells it.. and it's usually pretty cheap..
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