Grounding Kit Installation

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Introduction

This how-to will cover what's needed to install a 5 wire Grounding Kit. There are several grounding kits on the market that are available, however for a 5 wire kit, all of your connections points will still be the same. The kit pictured was purchased from http://www.Z-Xtreme.com and is a fairly easy install that should take no more than 1.5 hours to complete.

Kit Parts and Tools

• 2 16mm bolts
• 2 10mm bolts
• 4 lock washers
• 2 zip ties
• 5 4-gauge grounding wires (16" 20", 26", 30" and 32")
• 10mm open end wrench
• 10mm socket and driver
• Wire cutters to trim zip ties included with kit

Procedure

Starting off with a cool engine, remove the engine cover by taking out four 10mm screws. You'll need a 10mm open-end wrench to access the 2 screws located under the strut bar. The other 2 can easily be removed with a 10mm socket and driver. Be careful not to lose any of the screws. These are quite hard to find and replace.

Next, remove the 10mm bolt on the left side of the engine using the 10mm open-end wrench. This is located directly behind where the engine cover attaches, holding down a loomed wire bracket.

On the left side behind the light housing assembly, remove the two 10mm bolts (circled in red) holding the hood sensor bracket by using the 10mm open end wrench. Remove this to access the ground wire (circled in yellow). This is probably the most difficult part of the install. I stripped the bottom bolt on the sensor bracket, which made it even more difficult to access the factory ground point. In my case I had to feed to grounding kit wire over the bracket instead of under, so just be careful not to do the same.

Now that the hood sensor bracket is removed, remove the 10mm bolt holding the factory ground wire.

Connect the 32" grounding wire to the right rear hole on the upper right side of the plenum near the throttle body using the supplied 10mm bolt and washer. Secure with a 10mm socket and driver and route the wire towards the front side of the engine.

Connect the 30" grounding wire to the left rear hole on the plenum using the supplied 10mm bolt and washer. Again, use the 10mm socket driver to secure and route the wire underneath any OEM hoses towards the front of the engine.

Connect the 20" grounding wire and factory ground wire terminal (removed on Step 4) and reconnect all using the factory 10mm bolt with the 10mm open-end wrench. Route the wire underneath the power steering reservoir bracket to the left side of the engine.

Reconnect the hood sensor bracket using the 10mm open-end wrench.

Connect the 26", 20" (from step 7), and 16" grounding wires to the left side of the engine where the bolt was removed in step 2 and replace the factory bolt with the supplied 16mm bolt and washer using the 10mm socket driver.

Connect the other end of the 16" grounding wire, the other end of the 32" wire (from step 5) and the other end of the 30" wire (from step 6) to the front of the engine using the supplied 16mm bolt and washer. Secure with the 10mm socket driver and position the wires so there is no tension.

Open the battery cover and remove the nut holding the Negative (-) battery terminal using the 10mm open-end wrench.

Connect the other end of the 26" wire (from step 9) to the negative (-) battery terminal and replace nut securely with the 10mm open-end wrench. It looks best to pass the grounding wire through the rubber fitting just before the battery compartment. Just carefully punch a small hole with a screwdriver and pass the wire through to the battery compartment.

Replace engine cover with the 4 previously removed screws from step 1 and secure any loose wires by using the included zip ties.