Ever since I've had it installed I love how it makes the car idle quieter. I love how even on a dying battery (Analysis = 300/690), the car would just POP and start up -- it would turn over a lot less. And I especially love how precise the 1-2 shift became. Take the car up aggressively to ~4K area and you'll feel the shift shock - it just drops right into place. It's noticeable, but definitely not annoying; unlike the stage-2 VB mod where the car feels like it crashed into something.

Now with a new DieHard Gold in there the car doesn't even turn over - just pop and fires up. I encourage more and more people to do this. It's a very cheap and quite effective mod. =)

 

Did you weigh this against the "Big Three" when considering this upgrade?

 

What kind of ground kit do you have? Or is it a custom one?

 

Weigh what against the big three? :\

Polak: Just standard 8-gauge wires with gold plates.

 

The big three is quite similar to a grounding kit in that it supplies the electrical system at full demand under all conditions, similar to how a grounding kit would work. The big three get's it juice by adding a wire in between the following junctions:

(1) Battery Negative to Chassis
(2) Battery Positive to Alternator
(3) Alternator to Engine Block

It's kind like the same thing, but a bit more expensive and geared more towards audio system, but works equally as well in providing the elec system with a constant electron supply.

...but...if you're happy with the grounding kit, more power to ya! Was this a DIY kit or prefabbed? If DIY, what brand wire did you use?

 

Ohh. I did ground the alt, tranny, engine block, chassis, headlights and TB. But I didn't go from terminal > alt > engine block; they're all connected individually. It was a prefabbed kit I ordered from eBay.

 

Your car is soo hot . I hear that a grounding kit will improve an older's car grounding, but in newer cars that start up fine anyways it doesn't do much?

 

Dunno. It definitely added a kick to my car that was missing before, especially with the tranny.

 

Just wondering...what made you get the DieHard Gold over other brands?

 

Which one was it?

 

just buy a bunch of 4 gauge and DIY it.

 

There is a kit made by one of the org members especially for the Maxima, not a generic one from eBay. I think his user name is Jeff92SE.

 

Matt93SE...he sells the Blehmco kit.

 

I stand corrected

 

DIY ground kit VS $50ish ones = ????

any differences?

 

no. they just charge you for a finished product, and labor some1 put into making it. the wiring and ring terminals will run you about $20-40 bux. so you will spen some bux anyway.

 

Wire is wire, as long as its stranded, its still adding more groundpath than your car already has.

 

metal, big 3 does nothing for performance, only for us audiophiles

 

I beg to differ.

 

maybe on an 89 crx...but on our cars i really doubt it does anything. i may have to eat my words later since i haven't even bothered with it yet, but i know someone locally with the exact same car as you with the big three and he said it slightly helped his voltage but that's it. i guess i'll have to do it myself and find out. i know weak econo honduhs benefit from new grounds