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<blockquote data-quote="Jad G" data-source="post: 11908823" data-attributes="member: 14624"><p>Jimmy, I just have a big 2/0 welding cable straight off the positive terminal in the trunk, under the carpet thru the firewall directly to the distribution block, no fuses or nothing, and the battery is grounded to the frame by the passenger rear wheel; I just cut an exhaust stud in half and welded it to the frame rail and the ground didnt provide any issues up to this point. Both connections seemed fine going to lunch that day but all of a sudden nada, which is why I thought it may be a fuse or the relay, but i couldnt find any popped ones. I figured if a fuse or relay was out that the solenoid wouldnt make the single click so I ruled that out but checked all the fuses anyway. </p><p></p><p>I dont know if the relay is bad but i switched it with another one and no change so I ruled that out. I will try jumping the starter directly under the car and see if the starter spins, that will at least save me the trouble of taking out the starter to test it at napa. I know the trigger and power connections are both tight as hell so I'll have to check everything for continuity. </p><p></p><p>The lead for the starter from the distribution block is factory and unchanged. Perhaps putting my battery back up front on the passenger side would help voltage drop since I can run the lead directly from the positive side back to the starter and use the lead from the starter to the distro block to power the rest of the car, and I'll be able to ground the battery on the block again. Just hate putting weight back up front if the setup was working before</p><p></p><p>My car always took several cranks to start, and when eric brooks was tuning it noticed that and thought my starter was going out. I thought it was due to removing the PPRV, so I put a summit checkvalve in my -10 line to the rail, but that didnt help at all, so that all could have been just from a weak starter since it was original and 130k miles on it. I thought that was due to cold starts on ethanol, however it does the same after a hot restart after driving which seems to rule that out as the car should be warmed up and in closed loop.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jad G, post: 11908823, member: 14624"] Jimmy, I just have a big 2/0 welding cable straight off the positive terminal in the trunk, under the carpet thru the firewall directly to the distribution block, no fuses or nothing, and the battery is grounded to the frame by the passenger rear wheel; I just cut an exhaust stud in half and welded it to the frame rail and the ground didnt provide any issues up to this point. Both connections seemed fine going to lunch that day but all of a sudden nada, which is why I thought it may be a fuse or the relay, but i couldnt find any popped ones. I figured if a fuse or relay was out that the solenoid wouldnt make the single click so I ruled that out but checked all the fuses anyway. I dont know if the relay is bad but i switched it with another one and no change so I ruled that out. I will try jumping the starter directly under the car and see if the starter spins, that will at least save me the trouble of taking out the starter to test it at napa. I know the trigger and power connections are both tight as hell so I'll have to check everything for continuity. The lead for the starter from the distribution block is factory and unchanged. Perhaps putting my battery back up front on the passenger side would help voltage drop since I can run the lead directly from the positive side back to the starter and use the lead from the starter to the distro block to power the rest of the car, and I'll be able to ground the battery on the block again. Just hate putting weight back up front if the setup was working before My car always took several cranks to start, and when eric brooks was tuning it noticed that and thought my starter was going out. I thought it was due to removing the PPRV, so I put a summit checkvalve in my -10 line to the rail, but that didnt help at all, so that all could have been just from a weak starter since it was original and 130k miles on it. I thought that was due to cold starts on ethanol, however it does the same after a hot restart after driving which seems to rule that out as the car should be warmed up and in closed loop. [/QUOTE]
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