Will Grounding Kit Work on new G???
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no. it just grounds the car better which some say makes things smoother. i installed one on my brother's is300 and it made no difference. i hear it works better for automatics, but since you have a 6mt it really doesn't matter. i'd say it's mostly a cosmetic mod. Even then some kits look nasty after awhile due to the heat and turn brownish.
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Originally Posted by mike714
Um, isn't the car already grounded through the wheels?
the static electricity your talking about is a slightly different phenomenon. with static electricity you are building a charge on your body which discharges to the car because of the electrical potential difference between your body and the car's body. think of it this way, the doorknobs in your house are not grounded, but you can be shocked by them too if you are shuffling your feet on a rug.
the guys on the subaru forums swear up and down they see power increases of around 5-10hp from the grounding kits. it's a legitimate upgrade but may not yield the same increases on every car due to differences in manufacturing and electrical connections. it should smooth out your idle and help maintain a better electrical/charging system.
if your car has bad electrical connections from the factory then this will yield better performance.
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Last edited by RemmyZero; 03-06-2007 at 08:45 AM.
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Originally Posted by jnkirk1974
There's no real difference in grounding kits. You just need to make sure that the length of each cable will fit your car.
Not only are there construction quality differences (some significant in the E-bay kits I've seen, as well as the ones done in home workshops), but the actual grounding points used are markedly different! Some have even boosted the wire counts out of necessity because of the points used (some think that more=better, but it doesn't). The performance difference can be noticeable, so don't believe that all kits are the same.
As far as them making a difference in manual transmission equipped cars, one friend has it in his 6MT350z, and another in his 6MT G35. The throttle response is noticeable, as well as the smoothness! The Z fellow states that it also pulls harder in the mid gears going up hills on certain stretches of road. He wasn't expecting much, if anything when I talked him into the GroundingGear, and is now a convert.
Skeptics (as I was), come and go on the forums. Right now, a buddy is waiting for the GroundingGear for his 2007 G. I'm sure that the knock-off kit makers are waiting for the real thing so they can copy it.
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