So i was looking through the tech page and was checking out the ground wiring post. I really want to do it soon but it was done on a xA i think.

I wanna be sure im putting the wires in the right place so can anyone give me some help and give me a detailed description on where i should put them.

I looked everywhere and these are the 2 posts i found. Just wanna make sure there right.


http://www.cardomain.com/ride/861695/3
https://www.scionlife.com/forums/vie...asc&&start=300

 

make your own kit and model it off this:

http://ndnguyen.com/random/Ground%20Wire%20Kit.pdf

 

I am making my own sorry if i didnt say that.

But questions.
1. how come in this diagrahm the grounding wires are going all over the place? like places i havent see anyone else do.

2. How come it doesnt go to the alternator

and 3. do i need to ground it to my tranny if i have a manual??

thanks for the help!

 

Also i cant make my own if this one was from a kit that provided bolts and stuff.

But thanks for theCan anyone else help me out

 

1. this is the most complicated kit for the tC as the wires trace the perameter of the engine bay giving you the most "effective" grounding possible

2. if you connect a grounding wire to the alternator you will short circut the wire and your car will blow up (okay it wont actually blow up but short circuiting is very bad anyways)

3. you dont need to do any of the grounds, if you skip one or two of them it wont matter


and also I just want to let you know that ground wire kits effectivly do nothing. Your car's electrical system comes grounded very well from the factory and you will not see any benifits from a ground wire kit. Now I'm not saying not to do it. Its a realativly cheap mod and some think it looks nice. Even though I know it does nothing I've been meaning to make a kit myself, I have the wire up in my room right now, just the fact that I'm aware of its unaffectiveness is not the best motivation to get on it lol

 

Yeah i know it wont make a HUGE difference but i think itl look good and alot people say it helps a little so why not try it!

Okay so alternator = bad idea

What about the coils though how come it doesnt go to that??
And can i still wire it to the same placces in the diagrham if i dont have the bolts and stuff that come with the kit??

What does ur write up look like

 

no, connecting ground wires to your coils (I'm not even sure how one would do this) would again be very bad. Really, ground wire kits aren't anything but a bunch of wires improving the connection between the negative terminal of the battery and the vehicles chassis.

you would need to buy the necessary bolts

I dont have a write up...

 

What about the tranny would i need to do that since i have a manual or no.

And everyone who did a kit did it to their coil. It shows u how to in the posts i put up before

 

you dont need to do the tranny its your call

they didnt connect the kit to the coils but to a bolt on the valve cover that is by the coils

 

Yeah sorry thats what i meant

 

Whats the difference from connecting straight from the chassi areas to the battery then from battery and then to point a and b and b to c? All my wires are connected to the battery and out. I onces decided to take off the ground wires after having them on for 6k miles and connect the stock wire and the car started up funny, rmps were way low on idle. Computer must of got use to them already. I dont know about the ground wires not doing anything.