Should I do this with 4guage..

[95Prober 10+ year member]

i currently have 2 runs of 0/1 guage for amps in my trunk but im maybe short 5 feet or less for the big3 (since i may need to replace existing short pieces of 0/1 coz of reverse battery terminals under the hood due to an optima) and short grounds back in the trunk where i used to use 4gu.

since my amps can take 0/1 for ground, would it be acceptable to use 2 short runs of 4gu. and twist them together, grounded at the same point, and get as much of it as possible into the amp grounds?? i have a LOT of 4gu left over that i had removed to make way for the 0/1 gu., so i thought it would save me from ordering a very small order of 0/1.

thx

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[Joseph K 10+ year member]

If that's all you have and you don't want to buy anymore 0/1, then go for it... It won't hurt anything and it will help out with returning more power to your batt.

Joseph.

 

[logikalone 10+ year member]

well try it and find out, I dont see anything wrong with the idea.

 

[88Vette 10+ year member]

Should be fine!

 

[kross 10+ year member]

Using it as ground wire will be fine. If you were to use it as power wire, you would need to indivually fuse each wire, requiring extra fuse holders, etc. Pain in the butt. But for ground wire, no problemo!