Re: grounds....this is gonna sound strange.

[Maleficio]

So I bought that Raizin voltage stabilizer a few weeks ago, and I'm very happy with what it does. In the package came an assortment of ground cables in varying lengths with the recommendation to install them all as per the directions for enhanced performance. I didn't think much of it until today.

I've installed most of the cables recently after the L-Jet ground fiasco because I don't ever want to deal with that again. I re-routed and extended the L-Jet ground to the forward screw hole in the pax valve cover, and added another ground cable to the driver valve cover.

This is all cool, and makes me feel more comfortable, but I can't say performance has been enhanced. I didn't expect it to be, but just wanted to feel good about having solid grounding.

Today I decided to do the last step in the directions and install a ground cable from the distributor to the driver valve cover.

The car's been running rough for a while, and I ordered some replacement injectors because I figured the roughness was coming from one or two injectors not working optimally.

Well, after installing the dist ground, a lot of that roughness has smoothed out.

I was very surprised by this result, and would like to recommend to you all that you do the same, at least to help me feel like I'm not going crazy (again).

I took some pics.

[F18Rep]

Very colorful... Bruce

PS... I would have thought a Navy electrician like you could have created that sort thing with scrounged stuff that followed you home from work. Theres still stuff like that in my workshop from Miramar circa 1970.

PSS... brown is ground the world around (or at least in Germany).

[Maleficio]

Originally Posted by F18Rep

Very colorful... Bruce

PS... I would have thought a Navy electrician like you could have created that sort thing with scrounged stuff that followed you home from work. Theres still stuff like that in my workshop from Miramar circa 1970.

PSS... brown is ground the world around (or at least in Germany).

I like how my engine looks. I'm going for that failed NASA experiment from 1964 look.

Plus I don't have the funding to go buy "proper" black or brown this and that. I pick up what I can for pennies on the dollar. By the way, the orange wrap on the plug wires followed me home.

[Mrmerlin]

Malefico any chance that you can rout that blue wire across the rear of the engine bay and remove it from the crossbrace??
really you could get by with a wire from the dist to the valve cam housing

[F18Rep]

I'm going for that failed NASA experiment from 1964 look

Yea, me too, but then I started getting to be an old judgmental geezer. Take care....Gotta run, I'm right in the middle of powder-coating my walker. The boys down at the "home" keep saying "stock as a rock" but f.. em ...;] Bruce

[Maleficio]

Haha