Trunk mounted battery cables

[XcYZ]

Originally Posted by Vegas69

Your main ground should be on the engine. I then have a ground strap to the body from the engine. I'm sure it would work grounded to the frame but from my research running the cable to the engine is superior.

I did the same thing. I have a ground from the battery to the block and another to the body. I know grounding to the body would have been good enough, but I chose to run both based on personal experience.

[Apogee]

Originally Posted by parsonsj

Through the car with a firewall bulkhead here too. The only downside is that 00 cables are bulky and don't like to turn and you've got two of them. Hiding them under carpeting can be difficult without a lump showing.

jp

There's a company that makes really nice large gauge wire called "Arctic Ultraflex Blue" made by Polar Wire (http://www.polarwire.com/) that uses higher quantities of smaller strand wire and a special jacket to make remarkably flexible wire given it's size. It makes routing much easier and the stuff is really nice to work with if not a bit spendy. I learned about it when researching a rear mounted winch my my early Bronco.

Tobin

[parsonsj]

damn! I wish I'd known about that when my car was under construction. I'll remember it for next time.

jp

[Tom.A]

Originally Posted by Apogee

There's a company that makes really nice large gauge wire called "Arctic Ultraflex Blue" made by Polar Wire (http://www.polarwire.com/) that uses higher quantities of smaller strand wire and a special jacket to make remarkably flexible wire given it's size. It makes routing much easier and the stuff is really nice to work with if not a bit spendy. I learned about it when researching a rear mounted winch my my early Bronco.

Tobin

Thanks for the link. It seems the remote mount kit I bought is #1 gauge and #2 gauge for the ground plus it is short. I guess I will buy a replacement again. John I recall a post you did some time back about "Buy parts as you need them" man is that so true. Live and learn

[parsonsj]

Wow! I didn't think anybody paid any attention to that. I even wrote a column about it:

Stockpiling is for Squirrels

jp

[907rs]

Originally Posted by Apogee

There's a company that makes really nice large gauge wire called "Arctic Ultraflex Blue" made by Polar Wire (http://www.polarwire.com/) that uses higher quantities of smaller strand wire and a special jacket to make remarkably flexible wire given it's size. It makes routing much easier and the stuff is really nice to work with if not a bit spendy. I learned about it when researching a rear mounted winch my my early Bronco.

Tobin

Cool. Those guys are located about two blocks from my shop.

[Mick Mc]

John
Nice to meet you at SEMA, and Mike Norris too...

How do I break my stock piling habits?

I still have the battery cables, positive and negative, that I purchased from Del City, just waiting to be installed, and my car is far from being ready for electrical.

I have quite a few parts and supplies gathering dust, sometimes you're there and you might as well get it now, it's on sale or the deal is just right, I know I'm going to need it for the project sometime...

Sometimes I think the 'just in time' purchasing of parts is at the expense of getting a deal on the parts, when you really aren't ready in the project timeline.

Don't laugh at my Magneisum Corvette wheels still sitting in my living room waiting to be installed, I got a good deal on them.

Mick

[parsonsj]

Hey Mick! Nice meeting you too. Love the story about the wheels in the living room. My bedroom has a hood, bumper, and fender (my car is down for A/C) in it. My wife has begun the nag routine, so I've only got a week or so to get them back on the car!

No doubt you can get deals on parts that might not be there if you followed a "just-in-time" approach.

My argument is that the savings on that gets overwhelmed by all the parts you buy that you never use.

Plus, even if you do eventually use them, you have to store them and be able to find them when the time comes. Storage of parts costs money and productivity.

And finally, stockpiling parts reduces your liquidity: you've got car cash tied up in parts that you can't use yet, and maybe even keeps you from being able to afford parts you can install.

The other side of the coin is that a JIT strategy requires decent planning skills and patience. Otherwise you'll always be paying overnight fees to make progress.

jp

[Vegas69]

There are some things that are just good enough regardless. The wheel hasn't been reinvented. Now wheels, subframes, suspension.....now that's a different story.

[Mick Mc]

Originally Posted by parsonsj

Hey Mick! Nice meeting you too. Love the story about the wheels in the living room. My bedroom has a hood, bumper, and fender (my car is down for A/C) in it. My wife has begun the nag routine, so I've only got a week or so to get them back on the car!

No doubt you can get deals on parts that might not be there if you followed a "just-in-time" approach.

My argument is that the savings on that gets overwhelmed by all the parts you buy that you never use.

Plus, even if you do eventually use them, you have to store them and be able to find them when the time comes. Storage of parts costs money and productivity.

And finally, stockpiling parts reduces your liquidity: you've got car cash tied up in parts that you can't use yet, and maybe even keeps you from being able to afford parts you can install.

The other side of the coin is that a JIT strategy requires decent planning skills and patience. Otherwise you'll always be paying overnight fees to make progress.

jp

John
I'm turning over a new leaf. "Just in time" from now on.
Plus I need to install or finish with the collection of parts currently residing in my garage and 'house'.
As the economy gets tighter I'm trying to spend less, watch were the pennies go, increase my liquidity, not spend money on stuff I don't need right away.

My planning is great, but sometimes that leads me to far out in the process, I need to tighten my plan to more current tasks.
My patience or ADDD is always a kicker...

My girl friend just smiles at my collection of parts, or something I just brought home. Maybe because she knows if I'm bringing home parts and things that require an ignition key I won't be spending anything (dollars) or anytime at Sapphire's...

There is a fully polished 256 blower and intake for a big block on the end table in the living room. Great conservation piece when the latter day saints stop by for a chat. Sometimes those guys don't get past the 'Protected by loaded Guns" sticker in the front window. I've seen them come up to the front door and a few seconds later they're shuffling down the drive way, like they saw a ghost.

You can't imagine how tall 39 Super Swamper Boggers on 12 wide Welds are, when you stack them up, maybe I should install them 'just in time' for winter.

Mick