Have a look at this: http://www.takakaira.co.jp/asp/template.asp?id=683&cat=2&prodID=STtPqQqlnMokrNm

 

Has anyone heard of these? The translation is a little fuzzy but the gain claims are there to be seen...

 

Any thoughts electrical bods? ;)

 

Pete

is supposed to work, whether it be pshycosematic or not I'm unsure.

 

I don't see where the word 'powered' comes into it though.

 

£30 worth of strategically placed earthing straps from harry's will do the same job, but isn't very cool. :rolleyes: :D

 

The HKS ones look cool.

 

http://shop.store.yahoo.com/racinglab/hkscieasy.html

Ahh... ahhh... BOBSHYTE! Excuse me. They're trying to sell a few (quality) bits of wire for $129+... and good on them, because some poor sap will actually buy them and really feeeeeeel that placebo effect.

The benefits of a good earth are easy to agree with, like Jezz I cant see where the powered comes from.

 

There is a write up on TT net about installing an earth net, and if you want it to look pretty then use 10mm red power cable (halfords do a shiny one for amp powering) or use the heavy amp speakert cable available in any good car audio store. Either of those will have "high grade quality copper" and will give the same effect as this set up, and wont cost that much (especially when you take into account the import/tax)

 

HTH

So what is it? Lots of earth wires stemming all over the place from the battery negative instead of just one? :confused:

 

This could be worth doing, get some good quality wires and piece of piss to wire in...

http://www.twinturbo.net/net/viewmsg.aspx?forum=technical&msg_id=792278&words=earthing

 

Interesting... I'm gonna do this - can see the point in not doing it lol :D

Cheap Modification, I'll be having a go at this and why not!!

 

:)

 

I mean what could go wrong? Erm......... you waste about £8-£10 and about an hours time.......

 

:D

 

Something to do this coming weekend then!!

 

Matty.

Mine are gonna be lovely red :cool: :D:D:D

I have thought about this in the past and came to the conclusion that as long as the original earths are in 100% as new condition then it'll probably make no difference whatsoever. However, as most of them are now 10+ years old then you can make your own minds up, given the condition of the rest of the electrical wiring under the bonnet !

 

So, it's probably a good thing then ....

Yeah thats what they seemed to think on TT.net, that the advantage was because of the degradation of the existing earth.

 

Not much of a hassle for "smoother idle and better throttle response"...wonder if it'll brighten the headlights ;)

 

Pete

Been reading a fair bit on the HGS(Hyper Ground System)and after many reports/tests/dyno sheets(will try to post a dyno up but all pics to small)orderd this one by HKS http://nextcollection.com/html/Auto_Performance2.cfm?category=HKS%20Earth%20Ground%20Wire%20System&Department=Auto%20Performance

 

and heres another, http://nextcollection.com/html/ape-Auto~Performance-Hyper~Ground~System-none-none-none.cfm

 

it should be here any day(two weeks so far)when fitted will report on results,what got me interested more in these lately was a thread on the gtr.co.uk forum, http://www.gtr.co.uk/forum/upload/showthread.php?s=&threadid=15948 makes for very interesting reading:eek:

If Skylines have this earthing problem(allbeit occasional!)pound to a penny the Z may have too,especialy as pointed out by AndyP the age factor,the HGS has, as far as i am aware in reading many articles ,allways improved the driveability and idle,throttle response,and engine starting,and even better emissions,not all these things may apply to one vehicle in total,plus they found a bonus,all vehicles have shown a higher bhp,some only 2bhp,others up to 8 bhp,this is dependent on vehicle and driving technique.One things for sure after reading what happend to a few on the GTR forum,i would rather fit this than not,and worry as to wether my ECU would go ape becouse of a bad earth and result in pistons going pop

:eek: :( Tony