I don't have an amp or anything like that, but when you put a terminal on the battery (doesn't matter which one) and then you put the second on, the second one sparks big time, like welding notches into the posts.

does it continue to spark after you get it all the way on?

umm my battery always sparks when i reconnect it.... its the electricity jumping and grounding itself.  Do the sparks continue after you have connected it or is it just a quick spark?

does it stop though?

maybe your car is just overexcited bc you have a turbo now?   lol    serioulsy i would check the leads and grounds and make sure everything is where it needs to be

U have a bad ground to short or positive somewhere!

sounds like a bad ground then, scrape off some paint from your car were the neg line connects to the chassis and make sure you have good contact there.  Or try a new neg line from autozone for like 6 bucks.

Red_Spec wrote:

sounds like a bad ground then, scrape off some paint from your car were the neg line connects to the chassis and make sure you have good contact there.  Or try a new neg line from autozone for like 6 bucks.

hhhmm...sounds possible.  The car is at my grandparents house so I could use their garage during the install.

If it was here, I'd go try that right now.  It could've gotten messed up while I worked or something.  I was not delicate in that area.

If u can use a test light with pos and neg wire ends hook it up to the battery and touch the neg to see if u have a ground!!

Well maybe u have a huge ass draw somewhere!! like about 10amp or 20amps unlikley though!

Yeah, I finally got it all finished tonight at like 10 and I think I just got frustrated.  I'll go bak over it real careful like tomorrow.

That's what I planned on doing.  I was just hoping this was a common problem or something...althought I've never heard of it.

Anyway, all ideas are still welcome.

Oh, and we stripped out one of thos e-torx bolts pretty bad and ended up grinding the head off to get the balance shafts out.  So we put in the BSR kit with only 3 of the 4 e-torx bolts.  It's still pretty snug and everything so I didn't worry about it.

Again, I doubt this is it but I want to make sure all the information is out there.

theherofails wrote:

Oh, and we stripped out one of thos e-torx bolts pretty bad and ended up grinding the head off to get the balance shafts out.  So we put in the BSR kit with only 3 of the 4 e-torx bolts.  It's still pretty snug and everything so I didn't worry about it.

Again, I doubt this is it but I want to make sure all the information is out there.

i did that.  but i bought a new bolt to use.  but yea recheck every electrical wire youve ever done thats why people hate electrical stuff.  troubleshooting its a bitch

um, is the red one going to the positive and the black one to the negative?


i dunno and sorry for the smartass comment, its all i could think of

Ok, so here's what happened today.

I look at the ECM and I see that the harness isn't quite plugged in all the way.  So I plug it in all the way and that takes care of the sparking.

So, I button everything back up, get ready to start it and it just cranks and cranks.

The instrument panel doesn't work, nor do my headlights/taillights.

The SAFC powers on and everything so the ECU is getting power.

The 120 amp battery fuse is blown.

Do you guys think it was just all the sparking and messing with the battery?  And do you think this could be what is keeping it from starting?

I'll try to update any info if I think of it.

02NismoSpecV wrote:

is your alternator postive wire hooked up correctly. with the one nut underneath and the other one on top? just a thought if you took the bottom one off for some reason?

You know what...I didn't, I lost that nut..could that be negative?

or all the sparking could've fried something else.

One more thing, not sure if it matters or not.

My SAFC throttle wire is not wired up because I was going to do the boost hack and haven't gotten around to wiring the map sensor in yet.

i blew my 120amp fuse the other day as well, i mean i wasnt putting in a turbo , just doing my headers but  still , it was a pain in the ass.

So the good news.  It lives. 

There is only half an exhaust on the car now though, there is an open o2 sensor port, and it is not held on by any hangars or anything so the racket is awful.

I've noticed so far that it kinda sputters a little, possible the exhaust and open port and such?

I have no o2s plugged in and have srt-4 plugs gapped to .035.

I haven't really reved it that high because of the terrible racket and its kinda hard to tell what's going on anyway.

I have no where to plug them in.