[junglejustice]

This is informative too and a VERY important safety issue that even somebody like Richard can miss (it would seem...)

While I do agree that it probably warrants a separate thread, keep in mind that I had it in a separate thread and then the man took the subject from there (my thread on the 3.7), pulled some crap out of his arse and dragged it all over here - and erroneously so!

I'll drop it if somebody else will do the test and then concede that he is wrong! He is senile and since I happen to be his target on this forum for some reason, I just have to grin and smile!? No thanks!

It's easy Grant; start your car up, let it idle, pull the ground (negative) terminal off of the battery - tell us what happens!

He places ANY reasonable person in a position where one has NO other choice but to defend one-self (and to prevent somebody else from following his moronic advice and maybe damaging a car, or hurting - or worse yet - killing someone!

Richard - just for splits and giggles, I just went outside and did the same "test" on my 164 and yep - you guessed it - works exactly the same as on my Milano; you start it up, pull the negative ground cable from the battery and guess what happens? That's correct - nothing!

The motor keeps running!

Simply wiring the battery ground via the kill-switch (as you have suggested here and the subject of my heated protest), only serves to disengage the starter when you turn the kill-switch to the off position! If the car was running in the event of an accident and a marshal tried to shut it off, the alternator would keep it running! Said corner worker could pull the whole ****ing battery out and the car would still be running!

You HAVE to kill the alternator's feed to the circuit; with more modern ignition systems it is even more effective to just kill the ECU and /or the coil-packs... With all of your superior knowledge and intellect and race-experience, one would think that you would understand something this basic, Richard!