Hello. I have noticed two types of grounding kits on the market. I was wonder what would be more beneficial.

The first is a kit where all grounding points are fed directly back to the negative battery terminal. There is a circle piece of metal with holes on it where the grounds are connected in several places.

The second I have seen is a complete daisy-chain. One ground goes to the next ground to the next, and then the last finally connects to the negative terminal.

I think I am going to make my own eventually and was wondering which type would be the best. Is there really much of a difference? Is there another way that I have not listed that would be better? Thanks!

 

Anyone have an oppinion on this?

 

I made my own kit last summer. I was kind of a combination of both types you listed above. I spent about $40 on materials and it was pretty easy to do. The car seemed to idle a little better, but I didn't notice much more benefit than that. For ease of installation and the cleanest path for running the wires, I'd say the distribution block style would be better (similar to the HKS Circle Earth).

 

Honestly I'd just clean up the stock grounding points very well to start with. If your car has any amount of age on it it's mostly likely that the grounding points are going to be somewhat corroded. Try that first, it's now going to give a a whooping power increase, maybe a better idle and tiny bit better throttle responce.

 

Do you think this would have an equal difference as having a grounding kit?

 

All a grounding kit can ever do is give you a proper ground. There's no such thing as a "more proper" ground. Either you have a solid ground or you don't. Clean up the grounding points and if you really want to upgrade the wires you can do it yourself with supplies from any car stereo shop.

 

I actually bought the Hyper kit and it really wasn't worth it. Just do it yourself with some good wiring. The kit is overpriced and not all that effective.

 

just copy all the stock ground locations w/ new wire. :thumbup: As Mr.FatHeinie said, if its grounded, its grounded. Niether way will be inherently better than the other.

 

Cool. I will just re-do my grounds. What gauge wire is good for this? 8 or 4 gauge? Also, would it be helpful to use gold plated connectors to avoid future corrosion or is this un-neccisary? Thanks for everyones help!

 

I think 8 gauge would be plenty. If you did a distribution box, maybe you'd go a bit bigger from the box to the negative terminal, but other than that... 8.