06-06-2014, 12:46 PM
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Originally Posted by cscobra
Sorry, ERA Chas, but the laws of physics say otherwise. The longer the cable, the greater the electrical resistance--which produces heat and reduces efficiency (e.g., a decrease in current). You can compensate a bit by using a bigger, thicker cable, but that results in increased weight and higher cost for the cable.
Everything's a trade-off. What may be an advantage for one person may prove to be a disadvantage for another.
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Thank you for your physic (pun intended) lesson.
Weight of cable and cost??  Reduced efficiency-you mean like running a full-time electric fuel pump, three fans and an MSD?
Electrical resistance and heat produced have zero effect on ET's or lap times. Or street driving in ambient heat. Ask how I know professor.
Dan spent more on dash knobs and wiper bottles and added hundreds of pounds of weight to this car. He does not care about any of that-only the evidence that a same-make car, built with trunk mount 27 years ago, continues to operate flawlessly today. He would like all his hard build work pay-off like that too.
Patrick will now be highly upset that there is a Greater Authority on all things pertaining to physics and ERAs than he.... 
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