Grounding Kits

[whiteraven]

I personally think the NRG kit is better...if I had it to do over I would buy them (my Sun System was another perk included in the purchase of my car) I guess if anyone wants a Sun System (works really good) then I'll get the NRG one.

[Ron-E-Babe]

HONESTLY....I do not notice any difference, if anything, the car does seem to idle a tad smoother, but nothing mind blowing.

I did notice this winter, when on defrost the fan fluctuated with my throttle. (ie, when I accelerated, the fan seemed to turn faster)

[ontarian_frog]

Yeah we just need a better alternator.

[jalucerol]

Norm, I can't see any images

[serega12]

jalucerol, from the looks of it (look under norm's name, there is no stats or anything) norm is not a registered user on here anymore for one thing... second thing - the original post was posted back in 2006.... And even the last post before yours is over 3 years old. I think it's pretty safe to guess that he won't get your message.

He probably doesn't even have the pictures on pis Photobucket account.

[MatchboxKiller]

I may be wrong since I've never tried it before, but I'm highly skeptical of these grounding kits doing anything for the car. It may give the negative side another path, but given that the entire chassis and frame of the vehicle, along with anything conductive contacting it, acts as an electrical path, I doubt that a few more wires will really do much good.

[petrified.rabbit]

try taking all your factory grounding straps off and see if your car will even start. and i am not talking about the negative battery cable.

If you add/upgrade the positive side of the battery, you need to add/upgrade the negative side. grounding everything to the closest bolt is not the best method of grounding. it will limit sound system performance, etc.

the electrical circuit can only be as good as worst point of the circle. this is not an endorsement though, but you hit a point in the electrical system that you do need this kit.

[serega12]

Ok, so now that this thread is back to life anyways, what grounding kits are out there for us? I checked out the link in the earlier post in this thread, but some images didn't work and the whole site almost seems dead...

idk, any good suggestions? Is there another write-up with all the images working? I've noticed an improvement when I went from the stock ACDelco to a YellowTop Deep Cycle Optima, but I'm thinking I could improve the electrical system even more by installing a grounding kit.
Is this a DIY or does it make sense to buy one from the company?

I found this on eBay, but not sure if I can install it without any guidance at all (I'm sure it comes with some kind of instructions, but would be nice how someone already did it on an Aveo):

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/R-NRG-GR ... 486wt_1165

Thanks ahead.

[Daox]

All a grounding kit does is electrically connect (in addition to the stock wire) different parts of the chassis & engine. You can do the same thing with normal wire and crimp on ring connectors for way less $. If you want it to look pretty, you just find yourself some pretty wire.

[petrified.rabbit]

Exactly what he said. The kits look nice for show but if function is what you want you can do it cheaper

the one nice thing about the kits is it gives a grounding block that you can attach to the ground on the battery directly. This is fantastic if you build a fiberglass or carbon fiber kit car. Think of doubling the harness wires because you can't just ground everything