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Old 03-25-2004, 08:16 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Better grounding

materials:
4 guage wire at least 10ft copper wire
3-4 4 guage terminals
1 4 port battery connecter (24k gold plated brass one $7.50usd)
1 metric 5/16 nut (for altenator connection
plastic cable ties

tools:
Bolt cutters for cutting the 4 guage. or big wire cutters
big crimper if have access to.
some allen wrenches
some sockets

O.k here we go.



This shows the entire wire setup the yellow terminals are the destination. (if you look under the distributer you can see a slight yellow thing that is where it connects.

Here is the third additional wire connected straight to the frame of the altenator. It is important to have the wire not touching the radiator. I did it with cable ties.


^^^another view^^^^
So this is what I come up with as improvements:
Harder hitting subwoofers.
brighter lights
idle doesn't dip as noticeable as before when the sub hits hard.
little to no horse power gain. (although It has been a while for a tune up)
better start up of car (my car had a little hesitation while turning over the engine, now it's gone, It was pretty minor)
for under $30.00usd I guess it is a good buy.
I am going to run a 4th wire to my future upgrade of a ignition system (MSD).
Does anyone have better ways of running grounding wire to? Or Am my pretty good?
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Old 03-28-2004, 06:10 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Anybody have any suggestions or input?
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Old 03-29-2004, 05:11 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Anybody have any suggestions or input?
Input: Thank you for doing this and posting the pics. This should be stickied. You might also consider cross posting this to Camryman.org since there are a lot of second gen owners there.

Questions: Your intake is awesome. Where did you get it?

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Old 03-29-2004, 05:20 PM   #4 (permalink)
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there is a thread in the Camry section with a whole bunch of pictures and explenations

maybe they shoudl be consolidated into one sticky
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My CAI is an ebay special. It is crap it is not a true CAI. Given that it doesn't go down into the fender.
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