Intruder

I couldn't take pics man, sorry... My hands had never been so dirty! Basically, I removed the battery. After that, you will see where the batterry sits -- on a "bed" of some sorts. This "bed" is secured to the chassis with 4 bolts. You want to take those out... The next step is to unscrew a bolt that connects the air filter element and this "bed" -- the 5th bolt -- you can't miss it. It turns out that this battery "bed" is not entirely removable. I was hoping that I could take it out, but it was clamped or something to another holder and I did not try to get it out because I was scared of breaking the plastic and not being able to fix everything like it was originally. So, I just unwraped the positive wire -- it had some electrical tape wound around it to hold it against a plastic holder. Then I just yanked it to the side. I wasn't able to get any extra lenght by pulling it. It goes into a split loom along with some other wires and that **** is very tight -- you won't be able to pull the wire out - not even a little. So I just yanked it to the side of the battery and from there it is able to reach my new terminal. And that's it. Good luck!

asylum24

so basically the wire is long enough except that you have to break off a lil plastic clip that hold the wire in place and re run it to the other side of the battery? and then cut the ring clamp thing that clamps to the post and then screw on the distributer right?

This might have been what you asked before but I didt understand it... run some 0/1 wire to the terminal and crimp it on or solder it or something like that?

Also do you have AIM?

Intruder

Here's a picture:




Basically, green shows how far the positive wire can reach. Routing it from the side of the battery, I can make it reach the terminal.

The purple arrow shows how much longer I'd need the wire to be in order to reach the terminal from it's stock route.

I hope this helps.

asylum24

whats the guage of the stock power cable?

Intruder

I think it's 8 gauge. All I know is that it is not as thick as the 4 gauge wire for my amp.

asylum24

Do you know of any distrubuters that take like 8 guage in and send 8 guage out but have spots for like normal sized wire... i hve a **** load of wires hooked up to the battery and want to clean it up a bit.... got them for the neon, and the amp and something else, and soon to be the HU 10 guage pwoer

asylum24

Or if you have any suggestions

Intruder

here's what you will find if you do a search on sounddomain.com

http://www.sounddomain.com/shoptype/Distribution+Blocks

http://www.sounddomain.com/shoptype/...ibution+Blocks

one type is fused, the other is not. look at all the brands and different models and pick one.

if you don't like those, go to thezeb.com. you might find something different there. here's a link to the Wiring section. Go to each company and see if they have what you are looking for -- http://thezeb.com/caraudio/accessories.html

Intruder

suggestions, hmm... I'm not an expert, but I can look and I'll tell you what I like, ok?

Intruder

actually, are you looking for a battery terminal with a lot of outlets or just a distribution block? cuz that makes a lot of difference!

asylum24

iono I need somethign that has i guess an 8 guage in ( since you said that was what hte power to teh batt was) and 8 guage out(amp) and a 10 guage for the HU... then I would like to have a lil thing so ican connect all my lil wires to

Intruder

in and out.... so, I guess you want a distribution block? not a battery terminal with outlets - like mine:

asylum24

what is that 4 in and (2) 8 out? taht would be perfect! where did you get it?

Intruder

I got mine at thezeb.com.
It is $19.99 -- I got two of those because I needed one for the amp's power and the other for the DIY ground kit I will be installing later.

I just want to make sure you KNOW what this is -- it is a BATTERY TERMINAL not a distribution block.

here's what the bottom looks like:



Those are one 1/0AWG, and two 4AWG outputs. Mine is the BCMU2. Lighning Audio has a different version which you might like better - the BCMU1. It has one 4AWG, one 2AWG, and two 8AWG outputs. Looks just like mine except for the different outputs.

Intruder

you can get it here: http://thezeb.com/caraudio/lightning...terminals.html