 How were all of the red positive wires originally attached to the battery terminal?, ...and best practices to un-DAPO these same wires? |
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| 914rrr |
 Apr 28 2026, 10:46 PM
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I have a sloppy DAPO red positive wires and cheapo aftermarket positive battery terminal situation and would appreciate best solution to tidy these up, make better connections, etc.
This also makes me curious about how 4-6 wires were originally run to the positive battery terminal from the factory.  |
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| TRP |
Apr 30 2026, 10:03 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 407 Joined: 2-September 23 From: Morgan Hill, CA Member No.: 27,559 Region Association: None 
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I agree with @Root_Werks, not the most elegant solution. From memory on my 1.8 L-Jet car (which may be wrong) - there are three ring terminals that connect to the block. Two pairs of wires (4 total) connected to two ring terminals from the main harness, with single wire / ring terminal coming from the ignition harness.
A few of the examples shown above represent a cleaner and safe approach to the same issue. |
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914rrr How were all of the red positive wires originally attached to the battery terminal? Apr 28 2026, 10:46 PM
Krieger It's called a battery block positive terminal.... Apr 29 2026, 12:05 AM Dlee6205 I hate those aftermarket battery terminals that cl... Apr 29 2026, 05:58 AM Chad911sc I went with these that I purchased from Amazon. Cl... Apr 29 2026, 06:31 AM burton73 Battery hook up PMB way
Best Bob B Apr 29 2026, 10:43 AM mjrrti
I have a sloppy DAPO red positive wires and cheap... Apr 29 2026, 10:25 PM barefoot I took a different approach by installing a 1 in/4... Apr 30 2026, 06:06 AM
DRPHIL914
I took a different approach by installing a 1 in/... May 4 2026, 09:57 AM barefoot
[quote name='barefoot' post='3255330' date='Apr 3... May 6 2026, 07:26 AM TRP @krieger had it right, here is the original set u... Apr 30 2026, 08:07 AM wonkipop
@[url=http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?show... May 4 2026, 05:32 PM FlacaProductions I did what @barefoot did - but mine is mounted a... Apr 30 2026, 09:03 AM Root_Werks If I remember correctly, the factory connected wir... Apr 30 2026, 09:12 AM 930cabman
If I remember correctly, the factory connected wi... May 1 2026, 05:59 PM anderssj
"as was" factory set up
I also did wh... Apr 30 2026, 10:09 AM burton73 One more shot of the clean way PMB did this
Best ... Apr 30 2026, 02:40 PM Artfrombama RE: How were all of the red positive wires originally attached to the battery terminal? Apr 30 2026, 06:33 PM 914rrr
Q; how did the factory mount those 2 ring ter... May 1 2026, 03:43 PM 914rrr What I'm thinking of using is this terminal I ... May 1 2026, 03:50 PM 914rrr This pic brings up another question.
The OG 4 re... May 1 2026, 03:58 PM JeffBowlsby At the battery:
70-72 914s had 3 red wires
73-74 ... May 2 2026, 07:18 AM wonkipop i sorted this out on mine a couple of months ago w... May 4 2026, 04:03 AM FlacaProductions A lot of great info on the engine bay red wires he... May 4 2026, 10:10 AM DRPHIL914
A lot of great info on the engine bay red wires h... May 5 2026, 08:45 AM 914rrr Here's what I was going to do, until I figured... May 10 2026, 10:18 PM wonkipop very nice :beer2:
yeah the old rain tray cleara... May 11 2026, 02:56 AM |
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