where to mount neg bat. cable alum head hemi?
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ok i asked in q n a but no responce so ask you guys where the heck di ya mount the neg. battery cable on a hemi with alum heads?
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Re: where to mount neg bat. cable alum head hemi?
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ok went back down and looked there is no bolt hole at all on the front of the driver head no plates so that wont work either didnt think alum would make a good ground??? intake,water pump and heads are alum.
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Re: where to mount neg bat. cable alum head hemi?
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I ground my neg. to the frame and run a ground from each aluminum head to the side of the aluminum block then to the frame again per MSD inst..
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Re: where to mount neg bat. cable alum head hemi?
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I ground my neg. to the frame and run a ground from each aluminum head to the side of the aluminum block then to the frame again per MSD inst..
This is the only way you want to do aluminum headed engine with a nasty ignition....Each head must be grounded....Otherwise the coil wire will arc to the head or anything close to it.
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Re: where to mount neg bat. cable alum head hemi?
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i will redo it but i needed to bump motor over to do the converter bolts so right now it to the top power stearing pump bolt
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Re: where to mount neg bat. cable alum head hemi?
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Run ground to front and attach it to bell housing or block and to each head and intake and frame. if battery is in trunk never ground to frame in back and front too. From hours of chasing down problems this is what worked for me.
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Re: where to mount neg bat. cable alum head hemi?
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static loop. and also any part that shifts with heat and expansion should have a groung by itself. using a frame by itself for ground is never a good idea. I dont want to get into pee pee match but this is coming from some of the fastest in the business that have experienced the problem that high output ignitions can provide through bad grounds.
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Re: where to mount neg bat. cable alum head hemi?
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ok guys the only reason i asked is cause MY heads do not have a lug or bolt hole to mount a battery cable to i was always under the impression that alum dont make as good of ground as steel i had to ground it on the power steer bracket wich does not look clean to me and i want to (and will) find a differnt spot to ground it as far as running a wire to each head??? does it not have 17bolts doing just that?? (alum head iron block)
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Re: where to mount neg bat. cable alum head hemi?
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..motor on the left
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Re: where to mount neg bat. cable alum head hemi?
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this is what iv been working on....angies 74challenger now with a 426 hemi lil sollid roller (600),alum rod,landy heads will get the tunnel ram back on it i just wanted to fire it up get timing where i wanted it then switch it over not sure how pic will show up as did with the phone
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Re: where to mount neg bat. cable alum head hemi?
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to the head can also include using an intake or exhaust bolt.
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Re: where to mount neg bat. cable alum head hemi?
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as far as running a wire to each head??? does it not have 17bolts doing just that?? (alum head iron block)
I called MSD and asked about this. The response was that the coating on the bolts, or studs, along with the sealer, or moly lube used, can prevent a good ground!
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Re: where to mount neg bat. cable alum head hemi?
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ok guys the only reason i asked is cause MY heads do not have a lug or bolt hole to mount a battery cable to I was always under the impression that alum don't make as good of ground as steel i had to ground it on the power steer bracket wich does not look clean to me and i want to (and will) find a differnt spot to ground it as far as running a wire to each head??? does it not have 17bolts doing just that?? (alum head iron block)
Read this..
It helped me a bunch when I re-wired my ride..
https://www.shogunindustries.com/cgi-bin...ech/ground.html
Shogun Industries
Grounding
- RESISTANCE IN ELECTRICAL GROUNDS -
There have been many discussions and some controversy about grounding methods on race cars. Much of the discussion is the questioning of, "Why isn't the chassis good enough for grounds".
Let’s begin with some basics; On the list of good materials for electrical conductors, silver is number one and copper is number two. Due to the expense of silver, it is seldom used for electrical conductors. Copper is the most widely used and the material of choice. Actually, silver is only slightly better than copper in the amount of electrical resistance when measured, per foot of length for the same gage of wire. Without getting extremely technical, if we compare aluminum wire to copper, the aluminum has over twice the resistance of the copper. Now most racers would not even think about using aluminum wire in their race cars but consider this. Common iron has about 7 to 8 times the resistance of the copper. Then throw in the alloys such as carbon used in chrome moly and the picture gets much worse. As an example, NICHROME wire as used in heater elements, has 60% nickel, 12% chrome and 26% iron and has 66 times more resistance than copper. Most people think that metal is metal and nickel, chrome and iron all should make good conductors but you better change the way you think, because it's not all the same.
Now look at an application like a starter motor trying to crank over an engine. If the wires used to connect the starter to the battery were, 6 gage with the starter 5 feet from the battery, you would have ten feet of wire in the circuit. Five feet to the starter and five feet back to the battery. With 6 gage wire there would be about .0041 ohms of resistance in the wire, with 200 amps of current flowing, you would measure .82 volts less at the starter, than at the battery. This says that if you had 12 volts in the battery, your starter could only receive just over 11 volts. Now lets say that you used 6 gage iron wire (chassis), you would have 7 to 8 times more resistance or voltage drop and your starter would only have from 5.44 to 6.26 volts available to crank the engine. Even though you should never consider it, the use of aluminum wire would be a much better choice than iron, the aluminum wire would get 10.36 volts to the starter.
Another way to look at it is that a 6 gage wire is .184 inches in diameter and to get an equivalent iron wire, it would have to be 1.250 to 1.500 in diameter. Now I suppose if you think your frame or chassis has a cross sectional area, uninterrupted with seams or welds, equaling this dimension, you may be okay but then remember if you have alloy's such as chrome moly, your really in trouble.
The last thing to keep in mind is that as the voltage to the starter motor or any other device drops, the amount of current to operate that device increases. The increased current not only is the main drain to the battery but is also what pre-maturely burns out these items, due to over heating. The home appliance industry just loves it when your residence gets brown outs during peak electrical hours, the low voltage of a Brown-Out quickly burns up your refrigerators.
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Re: where to mount neg bat. cable alum head hemi?
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Good morning Rowin4 When you say that adding a #2 copper wire GROUND to the engine definitely helped, where did you attach the other end of the copper ground wire? Also what condition did it help ? Were you experiencing starter heat soak or some other starting issue ? Thanks...
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Re: where to mount neg bat. cable alum head hemi?
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Good morning Rowin4
When you say that adding a #2 copper wire GROUND to the engine definitely helped, where did you attach the other end of the copper ground wire? Also what condition did it help ? Were you experiencing starter heat soak or some other starting issue ?
Thanks...
I have two batteries mounted in the trunk, both grounds are bolted to 1 stud welded to the back half frame next to the batteries. The cable going to the front is also fastened to that stud. The starter was dragging probably because of the grounding condition that I was not aware of. no other noticeable electronic/ electrical problems. The ground wire now bolts to rear intake bolt, I had it on the starter bolt but that was a pain to work with. Electrical ground for the rest of the car comes off the intake valley pan bolt to inside of the car to a terminal bar for each accessary , lights , pumps, gauges etc. And a big THANKS to Chris for the article, I'm sure it will help out many racers
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