Thread: Best ways/locat to ground

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Just some random comments here. Tech1, that brass bar idea is very good and maybe I can still clean up my mess under the dash. I do have a 1" square tubing framework inside my fiberglass body and I have a short length of "00" gauge welding cable with brass terminals pressed onto the ends connecting an engine-to-transmission bolt to the framework. On the other side of the frame I have a long length of "00" gauge welding cable from the (-) battery forward to another engine bolt on the transmission mount. I am commenting on this because I have another "00" gauge welder cable from the (+) battery terminal on the right frame rail to the starter and my TPI guru told me something I really do not believe? He said a smaller gauge wire to the starter would be better since my large gauge wire would soak up too many electrons, too much amperage bleeding into the large wire? I know about what is called "fanout" limit of current from power supplies in electronic circuits for mineature electronics but I wonder if I have a cable which is too large for the starter from the battery? I was trying to just make a really good connection but I can see on the "water flow" model of elctrical current that a large cable could soak up a lot of electrons. Is my cable to the starter too large (gauge too low)? The cable is pretty long and I am just trying to make sure I get good amperage to the starter. Anyway on the ground connection I have been using the upper bolts on my door hinges on the inside which have long threaded sections to attach my ground wires from several instruments and that keeps the wires up high out of sight but not as neat as what Tech1 suggested, I will rethink that.

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder