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Originally Posted by sik_turk
JB Hi-Fi - Car Audio
Thats where I got it from, no links to products. I used to work at Lifesstyle like I said, they charge about $60 a metre retail for 0 gauge audio cable(ladi da Rockford brand), looks exactly like what I bought for $15 a metre. Jaycar had 2 gauge, it wasnt pretty, plain black, for like $13 a metre.
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see, $8nz for the welding ground cable of the same size ;-)
its much more stiff though, and difficult to route, so may not have been suitable for your purposes anyway. however, you can also get 35mm and 25mm cable from them, and thats stuff is flexible enough. the red piece in my pics is one of those sizes i forget what.
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And yer like you said Fredio, fuel pump, Megasquirt, alternator and some headlights this wire should be fine. My new battery kicks ass as well, its got a charge light indicator on it....flashy  .
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provided the heat/oil/etc stays away from it. usually the audio stuff isnt good with chemicals and high temperatures.
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Oh yer and Fredio, if you saw my setup, you will see that it works, but is by no means pretty. Mismatched colour electric tape, big clamps etc. And I used 4 gauge for the ground from battery, only has to travel about 15 cm and saves me buying another fat expensive terminal.
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correct, the length is critical to performance, and "4guage" is more than capable of handling that current from a fire point of view. ie, its ok with 180 - 210amps continuous depending on where you bought it.
the "60 amp" terminals that i used cost about 60cents each, and the cheap dse battery terminals about $2 each on staff price a while back. i think 5 or 10 was retail, but i cant remember.
i would recommend a guage on your fuel rail to see if its doing the job correctly or not. if there is a rise in pressure swapping pumps, then its not coping correctly, and you will lose pressure as the fuel demand of the engine increases, and flow through the reg decreases. my reasoning with going straight to a $50 chinese knock of fpr was that it had the guage on it, and if that was the only part i used, then i was sweet. as it happens, my "ching chong meow" (as the totally ignorant american rednecks on hmt would say) fpr works very well indeed.
fred.