has anyone tried this yet? i have a friend with a mazda3 and lancer and did this mod to both of them. unfortunately its much easier to do if the battery isnt in the trunk, but im thinking maybe you can get the same effect using the jumper short cut battery under our hood.

 

I thought you were ******* crazy when you said this, but I actually looked it up and it seems pretty feasible. I might actually try it just for ****'s n giggles.

http://www.msprotege.com/forum/showt...hp?t=123631517

 

Interesting. I dont know what to say, cool if it acutally works or "**** i'm so stupid what was i thinking?"

 

really cheap too. i dont know what to expect for it on a 2.2, but if it works....hell

 

Maybe if I have time tomorrow I'll throw a wire on there and see if it makes any difference.

 

i dont see how this could do anything, with my bit of electrical knowledge.

just ground it to the body or somthing, its the same exact thing dont waste the wire goin all the way to the trunk

 

wtf man lol

i dont see how this does a damn thing. The T.b is already grounded through the engine grounds anyway...sooo...?

 

Of course, lol

I'll probably either ground it at the engine block, or ground it where my nitrous solenoids are at.

The TB is grounded with a 16+ gauge wire, the point is to give it a larger ground

 

I'm with this guy.

 

quoted from mazda site.

"All it does is decrease the throttle tip-in delay, provide a more linear acceleration give you smoother shifts."

definitely something that's worth a try.

but yeah it would be a bitch bringing that wire all the way to the trunk.

 

If anyone wanted, test it by doing immediate before-after, just disconnect the ground at the TB, try the car, then connect it and try it, see what you feel.

Also, I imagine it would do more on the 2.2/2.4, the SS/SC goes onto an all metal setup, there isn't a giant plastic manifold to insulate it. LSJ's are probably better grounded already. I might have to break out the OHM tester.

 

i think that would be the best way to test it...maybe ohm meter lol?

 

I have a multimeter I could test it with

 

Same ****. Just compare your car to an SS/SC, from say the head to the TB. Your car should be open, SS/SC should be nice and low.

Then check for ground from the TB to the frame or something, same spot on both cars. Should be the same result from what I can think of.

 

Kay, I'll do the TB to the head, then from the TB to the Driver side strut tower bolt

First I'll do OHMs with the car off, then with the car running, then while the car is idling, I'll check voltage to see if there is any static charge at idle.

BRB with results.

 

Any static build up would be transfered to the block which is grounded. The resistance is there but the electric value isn't there. IMO of course.

on a side note i have had to ground monitors in cars because of the electric current they pickup through the other equipment, and shows up in the screen as waves. But thats not a static build issue...

hell try it would be interesting to see what happens. Although the basis of this theory is static effecting a servo...

 

Okay, this is interesting.

The casing of the throttlebody is not grounded at all.

I triple checked this.

And heres another weird but interesting thing, i checked the voltage difference from the throttlebody to the chassis in four different places and came up with a 0.3v (+/- .05v) difference in voltage

 

I wish I knew more about grounding and everything so i dont know what that means...does that mean there is potential benifits to grounding the throttle body?

 

The supercharged models are already grounded because the intake manifold is metal

 

So how about the 2.2 and 2.4's plastic ones? They might benifit with this if it actually works.

 

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This is interesting hmmm...

 

this does seem promising.

 

Hack, this work or not? ..lol.

 

Haha! Were all waiting...

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