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Best Answer Ruckus , 09 May 2013 - 06:39 AM

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.

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#16 Skortchio

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Posted 15 May 2013 - 12:15 PM

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

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.

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Posted 24 July 2013 - 04:37 PM

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



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Posted 24 July 2013 - 04:55 PM

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



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Posted 24 July 2013 - 09:29 PM

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.

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Did someone hack your account Joe or were you being serious? Plastic icecream tub cable holders :ohno: , outside the car :ohno:  O_O ? 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.



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Posted 25 July 2013 - 06:00 PM

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



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Posted 25 July 2013 - 07:47 PM

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



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Posted 25 July 2013 - 09:44 PM

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

 

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



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Posted 25 July 2013 - 10:18 PM

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?

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Posted 25 July 2013 - 10:31 PM

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






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