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[Skortchio]

Fair enough, haven't seen any posts about it personally but I'm pretty new here

Power cable will be on hold briefly while I tour the Adriatic might have a measure up and see if I have enough to run across and through the car to avoid the signal cables.
If not I'll mount a metal tube on the underside to act as conduit, it will offer far more protection than the flimsy partia length original effort either way.

[shivi_d92]

any pics of how people mounted theirs yet? interested in knowing how you guys connected it to the alternator so i know what connectors to buy

[Skortchio]

Couple here for you, I used rubber sleeved P clips under the car and reused the alternator plug with the 0 gauge wire plus a couple of ring connectors for the starter.

 

http://www.theminifo...ocar/?p=2817203

[Brams96]

Cut some strips of plastic out of a ice cream tub or something. About 2 or 3 inches 10/15mm wide.
Fold it over the cable and put a self tapper through the plastic and in to the floor or mounting holes in the sub frames.

Done.

 

Did someone hack your account Joe or were you being serious? Plastic icecream tub cable holders  , outside the car    ? Not the usual high standard I'd expect from you mate.

 

I'd go with Freshairmini's suggestion of P clips, but the cable also needs to be protected inside some sort of sheath or conduit. If you don't want to do that then run it inside the car.

[shivi_d92]

Couple here for you, I used rubber sleeved P clips under the car and reused the alternator plug with the 0 gauge wire plus a couple of ring connectors for the starter.

 

http://www.theminifo...ocar/?p=2817203

 

cheers matey, still planning on running inside the car to be honest

[Skortchio]

In that case it'll look just the same with the cable on the other side of the floor pan

[shivi_d92]

In that case it'll look just the same with the cable on the other side of the floor pan

 

haha pretty much! gave the alternator a quick look a month back when i was going to do the power cable, just scratched my head about how to connect the cable and left it LOL

[screech]

What alternator are you running?

To be wanting such a size cable you must be running a big non-mini alternator, which has a bolt on type connection? Right?

[shivi_d92]

nope just the standard alternator that comes on the Cooper SPI (70amp i believe)