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Can O' Beans · 08-20-2002, 12:14 AM

I agree. Copper wire has a DEFFINATE lower electrical resistance. Any current flowing would be flowing thru the wire itself, not the water.

The corrosion/oxidation will STILL be there, but it will now move to the wire connections if you use Copper wire connected to Aluminum (read up on proper Al/Cu junctioning in house wiring, etc..). With the very low potetial between the pieces of metal in the system, this shouldn't be a real problem.

Now if you use standard crimp on ring terminals(usually plated), screws with the wire between washers, etc... on the ends of the copper wire, and attach these to the different metal pieces, then this would also reduce the corrosion drastically. This was probably the case in #Rotor's cars, I'm assuming he used some kind of terminals on the ends of the wires.

08-20-2002, 12:14 AM	#54
Can O' Beans Cooling Savant Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Pa - USA Posts: 264	I agree. Copper wire has a DEFFINATE lower electrical resistance. Any current flowing would be flowing thru the wire itself, not the water. The corrosion/oxidation will STILL be there, but it will now move to the wire connections if you use Copper wire connected to Aluminum (read up on proper Al/Cu junctioning in house wiring, etc..). With the very low potetial between the pieces of metal in the system, this shouldn't be a real problem. Now if you use standard crimp on ring terminals(usually plated), screws with the wire between washers, etc... on the ends of the copper wire, and attach these to the different metal pieces, then this would also reduce the corrosion drastically. This was probably the case in #Rotor's cars, I'm assuming he used some kind of terminals on the ends of the wires.