Another grounding question

[Nut Hair Trick 10+ year member]

I've searched the forums and have had no matches so here goes. I'm rewiring my system with 1/0 gauge and I have a question or 2. I put a lot of stuff in my cart at the knu koncepts site.....1/0 power and ground wires, 4 ga wire coming off power and ground disto blocks( which I also added in the kart) rcas, speaker wires, etc.

After studying that for 2 hours I took a peek at their 0 ga amp kit. It doesnt have a ground dist block but instead, has a 2 foot 0 ga wire to run from the battery to the chasis. Therefore you would have to ground the amp wires to the chasis instead of a dist block. Which would be better? I know that by the time I run all my wiring, I would have laid down all of my sound deading material, so running a ground dist block would be easier.

Which leads me to my next question. What is the longest I can run my 0 ga ground, from the body to the dist block? What's the longest I can run my 4ga from the dist block to the amps? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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[rgplayer 10+ year member]

Well shorter is always better. But grounding to chassis should be fine as long as its free of paint and you use a ring terminal. You don't necessarily have to use the ring terminal but it will make a better connection.

 

[nineball 10+ year member]

so long as it is a good ground it doesn't matter much. it's best to keep your ground lines as short as possible.

 

[Nut Hair Trick 10+ year member]

Ok, so electrically, running a 2 foot 0ga from the battery to the firewall has no more benefit over running a 0 gage to a dist block in the rear?

 

[rgplayer 10+ year member]

It won't make a difference as long as its a good grounding point.

 

[Nut Hair Trick 10+ year member]

cool, I planned to ground the battery anyway, but I think I will go ahead and run that distro block anyways in the rear. Thanks for the help.

 

[rgplayer 10+ year member]

No prob.