new ground strap.....where to where?

[boomdriver]

Now that I have a hopped up alt and battery, I want to end some ground issues. Think I will run a 6g cable from the neg battery post on the Optima, over to the block and there to the frame,. I noticed the OEM grounds are all 14-16g wire and I wonder how good of shape that could be in after 23yrs of Cal and Az weather extremes,.. Now Tex with the 100% humidity.

anyway, i was wondering if anyone had done anything similar and why? if so, what were the results? Thats my plan for tomorrow then,,, rearrange battery cables, and sand the nose and maybe remove the nose cover to fix lites, then realign.

Will a bigger ground help anything? running it to the block? or frame?

 

[WhalePirot]

I believe it is hard to have too much ground, especially on older, electrically controlled cars.

I have two braided straps between the engine and frame; with my relocated battery: a #2 wire of about 10" length, from the (-) to frame.

I hope your Optima experience is better than mine (three of the damn things) no more!

 

[boomdriver]

Thanks...Thats kinda of what I was thinking about never enough grounds on a plastic car thats electronic control.

The optima? So far I've heard pretty good revues. The cost keeps alot of people away and almost scared me off. But, I have not heard my starter spin so fast in about 20 yrs...The battery seemed to get stronger after a day of driving and building a charge. I was told that they are slow to charge but equally as slow to discharge. Even with the partial charge it was much stronger than what I had before. We'll see...the parts guys already know that if I buy something that turns out to be a POS, I'll be back there climbing on the counter raisin hell... as matter of fact, someone is gonna eat a distributor cap tomorrow....$35 and the thing would not sit squarely on the dist. After taking everything apart, and using the dremmel tool to polish contacts on the coil, THEN I discover that its malformed and have to get the old one and re-install everything back in that one....