nology wires, where to ground?

96sentra · Sep 14th, 2003, 11:56 AM

i will be purchasing these within two weeks from now and i dont know where to ground them. my friends civic has these and they are grounded on his valve cover. but what if u have a plastic one?

OddyseusDSM · Sep 14th, 2003, 05:46 PM

i think if you go to a boating store you can probly just build one yourself for like $20 or so. but the grounding points, why not use the prexsisting ones

96sentra · Sep 14th, 2003, 07:21 PM

prexsisting points?

toolapcfan · Sep 14th, 2003, 09:13 PM

Why would you need to ground plug wires?

OddyseusDSM · Sep 15th, 2003, 09:04 AM

i think he's talking about the bolts on the valve cover, on hondas there is usually one over by the timingbelt side of the cover. yes we already have grounding points (prexsisting points). find those and you should be set. i think the main ones are the tranny ground, one to the block, and one from major devices (starter, etc.....)

PatScottAKA99XE · Sep 15th, 2003, 03:10 PM

Doesnt really matter where/if you ground them. Nology Hotwires dont give any more power on our cars anyway.

96sentra · Sep 15th, 2003, 09:08 PM

yea but u gotta admit, they look bad ass and in my opinion better looking than any others out there evn for the price.

rudeboy · Sep 15th, 2003, 09:19 PM

but i still perfer NGK

and they are blue

psuLemon · Sep 16th, 2003, 12:17 PM

you dont need to ground our cars.. just for 4 wires to the distributor and to the plugs... i know what you mean, cuz ther is usually a 5th tiny wire to ground.. there is no point to it.. its a just a waste of time... NGK for me.. they are the best for the car anyways

96sentra · Sep 16th, 2003, 03:25 PM

no, u ground each wire that comes from head to dist. cap. or so on a civic. each wire has a ground off it.

OddyseusDSM · Sep 16th, 2003, 03:51 PM

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Originally posted by psulemon
you dont need to ground our cars.. just for 4 wires to the distributor and to the plugs... i know what you mean, cuz ther is usually a 5th tiny wire to ground.. there is no point to it.. its a just a waste of time... NGK for me.. they are the best for the car anyways

are you talking about the wire in the center of your distributor that goes to the coil? yes the coil has a ground. dont we have threads on here about our grounds? if certain grounds go bad they can make your car run funny or even blow out some things. on my friends CRX w/ B16 swap the place that did it did not adiquatly ground it and that, we believe, is what fried his ECU. doing the grounds cant hurt, and it might help. thats why i say do it cheap but effective, buying a kit is no more than cables and connectors. upon rereading your first post i see that you mentioned plastic valve cover, grounding to the block is the same. if you can finds an engine lift point, those are usually bolted intry running off one of those, otherwise there is one on there (somewhere on the engine) already and just replace that.

i wonder how we got on the topic of plug wires?

myoung · Sep 16th, 2003, 10:34 PM

he is talking about the individul grounds that come on the Nologys... one for each plug. Just use the screws on the valve cover.

you can kinda see it in these pics

myoung · Sep 16th, 2003, 10:35 PM

96sentra · Sep 17th, 2003, 07:35 AM

exactly^^^^. but my question is, where do u ground em if u have a plastic valve cover not metal?

toolapcfan · Sep 17th, 2003, 10:02 AM

You can still ground them on your VC. The bolts and the head are still metal parts, therefore it doesn't matter tha the VC is palstic, continutiy will be carried through the bolts to the head, through to ground. Otherwise you could ground them all to a bolt and run a piece of wire from that bolt to a ground somewhere.