Over the past weeks I have been cleaning the battery connections and ground wire connections. I used the special terminal post cleaner on the battery. On all other ground connections I clean all paint and primer off with a grind stone and Dremel tool. I clean all metal surfaces, connectors, bolts and mounting plates with a medium stainless steel wire wheel and Dremel Tool. At first I couldn't tell if there was any improvement but now I can tell a big difference. Made a big difference in response and pick up. It seems as if ECU was tuning itself for a few weeks. While everyone has been talking about reduced milage in this cold weather mine has been improving. Although this is preliminary feedback we are looking at several miles per gallon increase. I would have been satisfied with the performance improvements alone, the increased milage is a bonus. This all started when I did maintenance on my starter, cleaning and regreasing. As I came across various ground wires and starter connections I just started cleaning them and so on and so on. After performing maintenance on starter I have had zero problems. That dried up grease was the problem. The contols on our cars are so interdependent and electrically sensitive that a little preventive maintenance goes a long ways. I thought you might find this of interest!

 

It's always good to hear people reap some benefits off a mainly preventative-maintenence job. I've seen people around here discourage cleaning your grounds/installing new wires as a waste of time and money, but it doesn't seem like it'd be THAT much time, and if you got cheaper wire, it wouldn't be that much money.

So why not, even if you may not notice anything?

I plan on hitting the write-ups and doing this myself probably early in the summer...I've got decent headlight-blinkage just with my 500w rms amp & deck-powered 2 front speakers.

 

I applied dielectric sp? grease to all the ground point after cleaning. It should prevent any corrosion build up. I found all the ground points in the engine bay via the FSM.

 

wanna give a list of all the points you used? (since not all of us have a FSM)

 

I took pictures.

http://imageevent.com/1max2nv/hkscircleearthsystem

Three of them were not factory ground points.

 

thats awesome! nice bay!

ok, now, some of the pics are hard to tell where in the engine you are. so, could you go pic by pic (give pic #, only applicable pix) and explain where in the bay you are and point out every ground point in each pic and whether or not those are factory grounds or not? thanks!

 

Sure..I'll just add some description within the album.