Grounding Mod
Grounding Mod
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Hi all, I'm new here and this is my first post... woohoo!
Anyway, my question is whether anyone is aware of proven benefits to supplementing the engine ground in certain vehicles. I'm a member of a Subaru owners forum and many there claim that on the turbocharged WRX, adding additional ground wires from the engine heads back to the battery makes their car run noticably smoother, esp. at wide-open throttle. I'm running 18psi of boost, and I know the mixture is harder to ignite under those conditions, and the reason why the plug gap is only 0.030". But the engine and it's grounding strap is part of the spark energy loop, and the shorter that is and the more parallel paths the better I would think. Can anyone confirm adding addition grounds would be beneficial and why?
Thanks,
Steve.
Anyway, my question is whether anyone is aware of proven benefits to supplementing the engine ground in certain vehicles. I'm a member of a Subaru owners forum and many there claim that on the turbocharged WRX, adding additional ground wires from the engine heads back to the battery makes their car run noticably smoother, esp. at wide-open throttle. I'm running 18psi of boost, and I know the mixture is harder to ignite under those conditions, and the reason why the plug gap is only 0.030". But the engine and it's grounding strap is part of the spark energy loop, and the shorter that is and the more parallel paths the better I would think. Can anyone confirm adding addition grounds would be beneficial and why?
Thanks,
Steve.





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I'll give you a hint... you're not going to prove anything of the sort, so don't waste your money. the grounding strap isn't a high-tech piece of equipment, it's a piece of stranded copper, and a company isn't going to skimp on that to save $0.02 knowing their engines are going to run rough if they do.
Dan
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Dan
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This is simply another example of parts being sold to the "performance" market simply because people who don’t know any better buy them.
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