Re: Fellow Motorheads!
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: z28kid</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: desertrat1979</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Call it OCD, but please, put an isolator bushing, or some sort of bulkhead fitting with that battery cable going through the firewall. Thats a lot fo work, and you dont want a direct short. I do it for power and ground. </div></div>
How do you have a ground short to ground?
My project is a 69 Camaro i bought a couple years ago.
Work is slow on her since the funds are tight, but she has a sweet power plant ready and waiting.</div></div>
Thats my OCD. Nothing looks shittier than wires just run through sheet metal. But, to answer your question, I usually try to make the ground wire as short and as invisible as possible. Past experience has taught me that a bad ground (like one that is cut from a wire rubbing through a hole in sheetmatal) is the biggest cause in many auto-builds.
My friend has a 01 IROC 1LE, the ECM ground was not properly secured and was up against the arm for the brake pedal. Pushed the brakes and the car died. That was a lot of fun. It pulled the wire just enough out of its connection that it took a while to find it.
