Project - 86 Omni GLH Turbo

[Force Fed Mopar]

Makes me want to put a 150-amp circuit breaker in my starter wiring

[blk86trbo]

Wow, that's a crazy chain of events...as mentioned before, glad to hear there weren't any injuries.

[Vigo]

Makes me want to put a 150-amp circuit breaker in my starter wiring

I've done a lot of inductive clamp testing on starters and I don't recall any that 'only' pulled 150 amps. Maybe a 'slow blow' fusible link or a circuit breaker with some kind of delay.

[Force Fed Mopar]

Yeah come to think of it I seem to see 200-250 pretty common on ones I test at work.

[going4speed]

I never was a fan of that power wire from the battery to the starter with nothing in between. Seems every car on earth is built that way.

[contraption22]

Sorry to hear about this, but glad the damage was not worse!

It has me thinking about putting an inline fuse in my starter cable.

[rx2mazda]

This sounds like it played out like a scene from "FINAL DESTINATION". BUT SERIOUSLY.... come on guys, this was a unfortunate freak thing. Don't start with all this "I'm gonna safeguard my starter circuit ...." BS.










**walks outside to check starter wires**

[going4speed]

I replaced my starter cable with a 2 gauge battery to starter from custombatterycables.com That sucker will carry some juice.

[Aries_Turbo]

bummer ken. bummer barry.

glad the house is mostly ok.

Brian