I had my DMH ecutout w/flowtech welded in today. After that I brought it home and installed the wiring. I installed the power source to the IGN slot in the fuse box as the directions says and the ground wire to one of the bolts going through the firewall. Everything was working fine untill I got home from driving it and tried to restart it to put it in the garage for the night. I soon as I tried to turn the ignition all the way to the run position everything went dead. Then nothing would come on(lights, radio, not even dim lights). So then I unplugged the power wire from the IGN slot in the fuse box and disconnected the battery for about 10 min. I reconnected the battery and all the inside lights came on and my car started fine.

So I reconnected the power wire to the IGN slot in the fuse box and drove to the gym. When I was leaving the gym my car did the same thing. I had to repeat the previous process I did with disconnecting the battery and waiting 10-15mins to reconnect it. Car started up fine. WTF is going on. I can't afford to have my var crap out on me. Did I wire it wrong or what should I do. I need help really soon because I have to drive back home tomorrow to go back to school. Someone please help!

Jon

 

Don't know what hooking it up caused but I would hook it up to the accessory position and not the ignition.

 

I thought about doing that. Did you put a inline fuse before you plugged it in to the fuse box because I didn't. If so what size fuse should I get.

 

Can't help u out man i used the wireing to my cigarette lighter

 

Anything electrical that you ever install has to be fused in one way or another. Just a couple of weeks ago my buddies jeep caught on fire because a live wire got shorted to ground and was not fused. The damage was limited to a bunch of melted wires and trim but no fun regardless.
If I remember correctly all that motor needs is like 3 amps at the start. You can always just connect a multimeter in series and measure that current. I used a separate inline fuse and connected it to the accessory wire at the stereo.