anyone have the TRD grounding kit?

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anyone have the TRD wire grounding kit?

i was looking through ebay and saw the TRD wire grounding kit that supposedly gives:

-Higher torque in low and medium power bands.
-Quicker throttle response.
-Stabilizes the engine at high RPM's.
-Smoother idling and improved starting.
-Better fuel mileage with improved combustion.
-Cleaner exhaust caused by higher burn rate (decrease of HC/CO density).
-Decrease of interfering stereo noises caused by insufficient grounding.
-Comes with all the grounding wires, aluminum battery heard and aluminum plate connector

anyone have this kit and noticed a difference?
 
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Re: anyone have the TRD wire grounding kit?

V8Limited4wd said:
i was looking through ebay and saw the TRD wire grounding kit that supposedly gives:

-Higher torque in low and medium power bands.
-Quicker throttle response.
-Stabilizes the engine at high RPM's.
-Smoother idling and improved starting.
-Better fuel mileage with improved combustion.
-Cleaner exhaust caused by higher burn rate (decrease of HC/CO density).
-Decrease of interfering stereo noises caused by insufficient grounding.
-Comes with all the grounding wires, aluminum battery heard and aluminum plate connector

anyone have this kit and noticed a difference?
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Sounds an amazing list of improvements - does it increase the cargo capacity and ride height as well :eek:
 
I heard that if you get a set of TRD stickers you get the same results.


Seriously though, if its not on the TRD site, they don't sell it. If you want real performance gains from TRD you have to shell out real money. (ie SC or Exhaust)
 
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I think that the grounding kit is probably not even a real TRD (Toyota Racing Development) product, just a bogus use of the name. Many people think that these grounding kits are worthless.
 
Promises a 5-8hp gain as well. :awais: Still not convinced - not on the US or Japanese TRD sites - wonder if this is a rip off?
 
i think i recall one of the toyota dealers (toyota of goldsboro) on ebay selling the kit and they only sell original toyota/trd products, give or a take a couple things that toyota doesnt make, ie window visor, front grill, etc
 
I am not saying that that particular grounding kit is good, but I know some guys that swear by those things. Similar kits are being sold for alot of other types of vehicles. 350Z is one of the top of my head. If you guys do some research on those things, you'll find that there is some gain to those kits.

I am not claiming that these things work, but there is a lot of convincing stuff on it.

Take care,
joseph
 
This sounded interesting, so I went looking. Here's a good explanation from a guy at http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=1314331


The degree to which such a kit would help depends completely on how well the car's electrical system is engineered. The grounds are often not equal to the electrical loads. It's the ancient theory that if you just tie a circuit to ground, you're OK. I don't know why designers ignore the fact that the (-) is as important as the (+). The only reason that (+) is HOT is because (-) is tied to the frame. Years ago there were positive ground cars where (+) was tied to frame and (-) was HOT.

The grounding kits simply make a better connection to (-) to remove possible resistance to current flow and possible floating grounds, where what you think is ground is actually a fraction of a volt above ground. An example that the 16V owners are familiar with is the importance of cleaning the grounding point on the back of the 16V head to eliminate certain problems with the ecu and drivability. It is VERRRRY sensitive to floating grounds.

If the existing ground connection on a circuit has no voltage drop and allows the full operating current, then there will be no change with adding a ground strap. But it only takes a slight improvement to make a big difference in some of these systems. Our cars are probably OK while the wiring is in fine shape, but as they get old and engine wiring gets brittle and corrosion forms, these kits would help. Unfortunately other wiring should be replaced also at that point. Personally I think the idea has merit and plan to experiment with making a kit for our cars, if I ever get a round tuit.
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Personally though, I'll wait until someone else does it and puts in on a dyno. Just don't like to be a beta tester and have too much respect for the work I had to do to pay for stuff.
 
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BTW, there seems to be a VERY LARGE price difference between the Ebay "universal" versions and several I've located in online parts shops. Ebay's go for 10-40 via buy it now. Online seems to go for $125-175.

I'd be careful and do a lot more research before plucking down any money on one of these.
 
Faeylyn,

Couldn't have put it better!!! I am going to do some searching as well. I used to own a first gen MR2. The message board that I was a part will be very useful for researching this topic. The owner of that message board used grounding straps on every car he owned. I will try to find out where he buys his straps and maybe get a better explanation on where to put these straps.

Take care,

Joseph
 
Honestly, that is slightly bogus.

For that much money, I can sell you a bunch of 8 gauge wire and a bunch of crimp rings for 40 bucks and do the same thing.

What I did in my bronco was run a ground wire from one side of the truck's engine bay to the battery terminal. Sanded it down etc etc. used 4 gauge wire.


That helped my Street glow neons to have a better ground.
 
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