Poor Man's Buss Bar

[02parkave 5,000+ posts]

hmm.. wow.. didnt know alum was that cheap! will be picking some up soon! lowes, eh?

 

[dcole18 5,000+ posts]

hmm.. wow.. didnt know alum was that cheap! will be picking some up soon! lowes, eh?

yeah... home depot had the same for $10 iirc

 

[Chevyaudio 5,000+ posts]

I just checked aluminum prices online. And it would be about 10 shipped now for the piece I paid 15 for...and its 4 feet.

 

[dcole18 5,000+ posts]

I just checked aluminum prices online. And it would be about 10 shipped now for the piece I paid 15 for...and its 4 feet.

good deal you have there //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

 

[2000LaDe 10+ year member]

Here's a thread for you poor guys like me who don't really have the cash for expensive buss bar. Since I'm about to start competing in AS1, I had to take my battery out and I knew that I'd need buss bar for all my ring terminal connections. I wasn't too happy because I knew that buss bar would be expensive (to me). I was talking to Chad Riggs about my problem and he linked me to a thread where a DB Drag competitor was on a tight budget and need some buss bar. What the guy ended up doing was taking a trip to Home Depot and bought 3/4" copper tubing and flattened it out by either smashing it with a hammer or a vise. Then you can buy bolts and lock washers to make the connections. After all was done he measured the resistance and it came out to be .001 ohm. I decided to do the same thing with some 7/8" copper tubing Now it will be easy to swap out my rear battery (for daily) and only a single battery (for competition).
Before with rear bat

Now with buss bar

Voltage with car off

u know actual copper bars arent all that expensive.

http://store.electrical-insulators-and-copper-ground-bars.com/copper-barstock.html

thats where i bought my copper busbars for my batteries.

 

[stuckinok 5,000+ posts]

good info in here

 

[Skip01 5,000+ posts]

u know actual copper bars arent all that expensive. http://store.electrical-insulators-and-copper-ground-bars.com/copper-barstock.html

thats where i bought my copper busbars for my batteries.

30bucks.......or free?//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/tongue.gif.6130eb82179565f6db8d26d6001dcd24.gif

 

[2000LaDe 10+ year member]

30bucks.......or free?//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/tongue.gif.6130eb82179565f6db8d26d6001dcd24.gif

just informing people that want REAL copper bus bars.

 

[quest51210 10+ year member]

whats the voltage at the battery with the car off?

13.06

at the battery! not the buss bar you idiot!

 

[Skip01 5,000+ posts]

at the battery! not the buss bar you idiot!

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[tommyk90 5,000+ posts]

I think you should just do S1 then you could have kept your rear battery. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

Plus I don't see your rear jumpseats or speaker covers which automatically bumps you into street. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif

 

[yunvme666 10+ year member]

heres my cheapo try , 1 buck each terminal nice and clean , somewhat.....lol.....

 

[Lakota 5,000+ posts]

I think you should just do S1 then you could have kept your rear battery. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif
Plus I don't see your rear jumpseats or speaker covers which automatically bumps you into street. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif

I don't want to be in your class just yet, I want to be successful I'm going to put the covers back on and my truck didn't come with jump seats.

 

[tommyk90 5,000+ posts]

I don't want to be in your class just yet, I want to be successful I'm going to put the covers back on and my truck didn't come with jump seats.

Wow, no rear seats at all?

I may be changing classes, fyi. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[Lakota 5,000+ posts]

I may be changing classes, fyi. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

You should. Sandbagger