I recently bought a pair of silver plated battery terminals to use on my optima battery, however while installing the battery, I noticed the pos terminal has a bunch of fuses and wires attached to it. The neg is easy, I can run a new ground wire from the terminal back to the chassis, or just strip the existing one and hope it reaches. How do I go about doing the pos one? Do I even need the clips with the fuses plugged in, or can I just strip the main wire coming in and use that? Here is a pic I found on the site describing what I mean.. My new terminals just have open holes on the side to stick stripped wires through, and close tight with an allen wrench, like most amp kits do, but how would I go about doing that in this case. I almost done with the install aside from this! thanks

 

Anyone? I need to do something about this

 

why don't you go get a 4" - 6" bettery terminl cable, install one end to the factory terminal, and strip the wire on the other end and attach to the new silver plated terminal you bought? you can hide the factory terminal/fuse box on the bottom or side of the battery if you want.. just to make sure you insulate it with tape, so it doesn't touch the chassie (ground).

 

I left my positive connection stock. It didn't seem worth the trouble changing all that around. I did, however, upgrade the negative to a 1/0 ground to the stock ground location. I feel it was worth it since the factory ground is pretty pathetic.

 

Well, that's kind of what I wanted to do, but there doesnt seem to be a way to hook a new wire (or extend it as I it would essentially seem) because of the way it's set up. That whole fuse things seems to be built into that terminal, which is designed to sit right the battery. Unless I can use that other open screw down on the top of that terminal (number 4 in the pic), but I wasnt sure exactly how that fuse thing was set up. Maybe i'll have to look it over again.. thanks

 

The open screw on the battery terminal is fused at (if I remember correctly) 20 amps. It will not support much. Your best bet is to attach a power connection at the screw that clamps the battery terminal to the battery.

 

Alright, sounds good. Any idea what size wire the pos side currently uses? I am going to re do the neg side with a 4 gauge wire because I have it already, and I wondered if I should just do the pos side the same, depending on what it currently has. thanks!