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Old 08-19-2008, 06:08 AM
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Originally Posted by 428street View Post
I'm in the process of installing the cabling for my rear mounted battery. I checked out the entire process on the website and it looks fairly straight forward. I do have two questions.

1. The directions state to connect the black ground cable with the battery terminal on the end directly to the frame. I assume you have to drill a hole into the frame. I did not see one pre-drilled.

2. There is a black ground cable that came with my set. Not sure were that goes. If you connect the battery ground cable directly to the frame and then ground the engine via the tranny ground strap per the manual what is that second ground cable used for? This cable has two round eye connectors attached to it.
I believe that there are two grounds connected to the engine/transmission on an ERA. The first goes from the transmission to the frame area right below the rear transmission mount. This is a heavy cable, typically 0 gauge. There's also an 8 gauge cable that goes from the firewall to the back of the engine. Best place to attach this is via one of the holes that is drilled and tapped on the back of the passenger side cyclinder head.

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