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Originally Posted by mikepellegrini
There are three wires going to the starter - 2 larger ones and one small one. The small one goes to the solenoid and then back to the ignition switch (or DME). The largest wire goes to the hot terminal on the battery. If I remember right, the other larger one goes to the alternator.
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This is definitely right. Both big wires go on the same post. At least this is the way it's set up on my '83
It turns out we wired it correctly, but (we think) the battery got messed up somehow in the two weeks we had it on the stands. I thought we may have burned up the computer, but it's fine.
What we ended up doing was going to the store and borrowing a defected battery that they couldn't sell. The battery was perfect, but the case had a dent and that's enough to pull it from the shelves apparently. The defected battery didn't have enough CCA to start the car, but it was enough to check everything was ok (starter turned over, lights came on, etc) and make sure it wasn't going to go fukushima on us again.
The scary part is literally all we did was change the battery and it worked. I have no idea what happened to the old battery, because it worked perfectly two weeks ago and all it did was sit there in the meantime.
Thanks for all the replies!
On a side note, far be it from me to question the mind of Ferdinand, but who hooks a BLACK wire up to the POSITIVE battery terminal?...