All right, it's been about a week since my car's been out of commission, so I'm gonna suck up my pride and finally ask.
I have my battery in my trunk. I have a 4 ga. wire running to the positive in the engine bay. The ground in the engine bay is still attached to the battery tray, and I grounded it again after that to the engine block by the transmission (using 4 ga. wire all around). The battery is grounded in the trunk to a bolt we added to the metal.
But, my car won't start. It acts like a dead battery, even with jumper cables attached to a running car.
Anything I'm missing? My best idea at the moment is the power wire is just... I don't know... not good enough for some reason. It is a Wal-Mart "Amp installation kit" wire. But... I have a hard time justifiying the wire being the problem in my head.
Things do get warm after holding the starter for a while, including the aluminum colderless connections in the engine bay and the battery terminals.
Any advice is again much appreciated.
~Wayrin
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Actually, don't worry about it. I got it started, using jumper cables, for whatever god awful reason it decided to work now.
But, yesterday in our attempts to start it, we got some sort of massive backfire, and now my car sits there and billows smoke. So @!#$ it, I'm done with it for a while.
~Wayrin
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Components getting warm means that you have way too much resistance, Try a larger battery, 2 gauge cables and gold platted connectors
'99 2200 LS CX1 Sport
4 Ga wire is not heavy enough for the amp load you are trying to put to the starter. 2 Ga or even 0 Ga welding or battery cable would be more appropriate, especially when running from the trunk. 4 Ga is sufficiant for stock applications with the battery in the stock location, but not for trunk mounted batteries.
