Electrical Eliminate Starter Solenoid?

@90sickfox, I saw one of your posts where you have both a 250A fuse and a megafuse block on your battery terminal. I assume the block is for your alternator cable. Is the 250A fuse on the cable feeding your starter?

That fuse should be able to handle a % of current above it's rating for a specified amount of time. I think the starter pulls something like 500A. I would think you would have to continually crank the engine for a few mins to cause it to blow. You aren't having any starting issues, are you?

I have gotten some work done on the car. I have the junction block mounted in the fenderwell. I also ditched the stock starter solenoid and replaced it with the fuse/relay you see in the pic (since I have a mini-starter). I tried to mount everything in such a way that it can be easily accessible from within the engine bay via the washer reservoir access hole without having to take out the PITA fender liner. I am retaining my battery in the stock location.

I moved all of the stock wiring from the solenoid to the junction block. I also plan to add the 4 AWG cable (probably overkill) powering my amps to the junction block. This cable is fused for 60A. I may add Contour fans in the future which I believe pull ~42A at full tilt. If my math is correct, that would put me at ~180A max through the junction block. In reality, I would expect this to be much less as I plan on installing all LED lights. There is ~3' run of cable from the battery to the junction block. I think 4 AWG should be sufficient here?

I moved the power cables from my 3G alt and starter directly to the battery. Both are 4 AWG. Battery ground to block is 4 AWG. I also have the 10 AWG battery ground pigtail connected directly to the ECU ground cable on the sheet metal near the factory location.

I plan to add another 4 AWG ground from the block to the pigtail/ECU ground location. I assume it is best to ground this cable at the same location where the battery is grounded to the block (factory location near timing cover)?

I just need a sanity check to make sure I'm not getting my wires crossed (figuratively and literally).