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marc-alan FEB 20, 06:34 PM
When mounting the battery in the front and using a Ford style solenoid, where do you splice-connect the wire for the key-start signal? Is it brought all the way to the engine bay?

cvxjet FEB 20, 09:12 PM

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Originally posted by marc-alan:

When mounting the battery in the front and using a Ford style solenoid, where do you splice-connect the wire for the key-start signal? Is it brought all the way to the engine bay?



I spliced into the Purple wire that comes off the Clutch safety switch....Then I drilled a hole thru the firewall forward so the wire could reach the solenoid which was mounted on the front trunk wall. I installed a couple of grommets to protect the wire running thru the holes (There are two pieces of sheet metal to drill thru)

This was (Obviously) on a Manual trany car- But the automatic has the wire running thru the Gear selector.

marc-alan FEB 21, 04:19 PM

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Originally posted by cvxjet:


I spliced into the Purple wire that comes off the Clutch safety switch....Then I drilled a hole thru the firewall forward so the wire could reach the solenoid which was mounted on the front trunk wall. I installed a couple of grommets to protect the wire running thru the holes (There are two pieces of sheet metal to drill thru)

This was (Obviously) on a Manual trany car- But the automatic has the wire running thru the Gear selector.



Did you also ground the starter solenoid to the chassis?
cvxjet FEB 21, 06:08 PM
The solenoid grounds thru it's mounting bracket- Just make sure it makes ground contact- either thru the screws or the actual bracket (Don't mount it to plastic)

Note; It doesn't need a BIG ground- This is only to actuate the solenoid- the actual starter power (Big amps) grounds thru the starter to block mounting.

[This message has been edited by cvxjet (edited 02-21-2022).]