Ground Wire Length

[plazman 10+ year member]

i want to upgrade my battery to chasis ground

factory ground is like 4ga.

i want to make use of my 2/0 wire. in order for me to use 2/0, the wire length has to be a little longer than stock wire length, reason, 2/0 is kinda hard to bend and fit in stock location (battery in trunk )

3-4 inches over stock lenth i would say.

by adding these extra inches, would this defeat the purpose of the upgrade ?

or am i just totally nuts, and go ahead and do the upgrade?

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[jtomsic 5,000+ posts]

how long is the stock wire?

 

[hoss 5,000+ posts]

go ahead and do it. a few inches isnt going to defeat anything when you are conparing 4ga to 00.

 

[plazman 10+ year member]

8-9 inches

 

[jtomsic 5,000+ posts]

definately do it man

 

[plazman 10+ year member]

thanks

 

[Black_Jesus 10+ year member]

2/0? pffft... use 4/0 =P lol

 

[johnecon2001 5,000+ posts]

that stuff is as thick as my wrist

 

[DBfan187 5,000+ posts]

that stuff is as thick as my wrist

You must be a very boney person.

 

[johnecon2001 5,000+ posts]

ehh i might have exaggerated a bit. maybe 6/0 is a better one.

 

[plazman 10+ year member]

do they even have 6/0?

 

[johnecon2001 5,000+ posts]

yup. like $10/ft

 

[jb2xx 10+ year member]

//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/thumbsup.gif.3287b36ca96645a13a43aff531f37f02.gif Did 2 wires of the Big 3 upgrade today & will do the final one this weekend. The last wire is the Bat pos to alternator. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crying.gif.ec0ebefe590df0251476573bc49e46d8.gif Man!!!, it is sure hard to get that done on this car. I think I am going to need some help from my bro in law. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

So far I noticed that my lights don't dim when I am driving //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/driving.gif.c4dead4599dda895032b63e51f52b126.gif & bumping it hard. Only thing is that when I am idle, & I try to do the same, I get the lights dimming.

My kicker kx400.1 doesn't power off to go into safe mode because seems that I am not getting voltage drops anymore. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/clap.gif.178cba2c538c68e720c727fcb024b19c.gif

//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/confused.gif.e820e0216602db4765798ac39d28caa9.gif Question, once I have the final wire connected & I still notice the dimming when I am idle, when bumping hard of course, can my next course of action be getting a yellow, blue, red top battery? //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/help.gif.cee8f684da1ba626487a8bc51152e1ec.gif

Since I don't get a problem when I am driving //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/driving.gif.c4dead4599dda895032b63e51f52b126.gif , only when I am idle, would it be safe to assume that HO alternator upgrade isn't needed?

 

[johnecon2001 5,000+ posts]

yes.

 

[jb2xx 10+ year member]

Thank you much for the help & feedback.