grounding - electrical??

They are having a laugh.

Gold plated larf.....

between the battery and the engine , then it wouldn't turn over on the starter would it ............ If you're that worried run an additional earth strap from the battery to the body , they're like a fiver . Gold ..... funnily enough the best conductor of electricity is silver , the best wire available ( to my knowledge anyway ) is silver plated copper wire. steve the grease

ffs. that's the biggest load off bollocks I've read for a while.

If you're existing earths are fine, it'll make no difference.

Advertisment? Anyway, dont bother. Waste of time and seriously overpriced.

I can see it having a benefit on an older car where the factory fitted earth straps may have deteriorated, but it doesn't need the hype or the designer look, just a few good old braided earth straps, and a good cleaning of rust and crap at the factory earth points.

Very true, the claims for better more stable ecu stuff etc are nonsense as well. All the sensors are provide with their own earth to the ecu and nearly all ecus are designed to have a single ground point to stop earth loops.

I've got one similar to that sites but didn't pay that sort of money.

19's are well known for dodgy earths and a few extra earth leads does wonders, when they happen to be blue its all the better :)

Chet

Hello,

I would doubt they can prove any of the silly claims about "increasing HP" and "increasing torque". They are just one of many companies taking advantage of boy racers and people without a brain that fall for any old advertising. It's like people that will get a low powered small engined car such as a clio, nova, corsa or saxo and fit big exhausts/induction kits - then claim they are FASTER! Most of this stuff seems to be fitted to tiny engined cars owned by people of a certain age.

What's wrong with small engines? Small engines + forced induction = fun. That said the most fun car I have driven to date was a mere 1.8 and normally aspirated (admittedly very light and well balanced unlike a nova, corsa or saxo).

Bugger-you beat me to it. You can just see the Barryboys fitting these overpriced kits to their shopping trolleys and then claiming 250BHP !

thanks folks - i thought that it was load of crop dressed up in nice webpages - anyway my Dad said that i can get better power by pressing my foot down onto that pedal on the right and that i can get better fuel economy by lifting my foot off the pedal too. He also said not to worry about the idle speed as I'm quite good at idling already. Guess I'll have to buy him an Easter egg as payment for his advice and for saving me a few quid.

It's a monstrous con. Avoid. If you really must, then add your own grounding kit made from braids bolted to the engine and bodywork, but it will have zero practical effect unless your engine has somehow managed to snap it's original earthing strap.

And electrical earth point is a ground.

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Elise?

I reckon that with a few feet of welding cable, some decent sized terminal connectors, an# industrial crimp and industrial saolding iron or blowtorch, you could make that few a few quid.

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My old mini had a curious problem - it would crank quite slowly, and occasional with a slightly odd smell, but the battery and starter seemed fine. I had seperately noticed that the accelerator pedal was getting stiffer. It turned out that I hadn't reattached the earth strap to the bellhousing last time I had the engine out, and the only earth to the engine was the outer sheath of the accelerator cable, which got quite warm after a few seconds cranking :-)

Burgerman! You've not posted in a while!

gold is only used in electrical connections for it's inertia to oxidisation which makes it a good contact metal.