%$^&@# car won't turn over -effectively DEAD!

[ciper]

Make sure you use the same color. The links are identified by the wire color.

[aspect]

I hooked up my battery *backwards* a while back, and managed to kill both the battery and the FL. My questions is, where would I be able to get one of these besides a junkyard?

[vrg3]

A dealer.

If you're a daredevil, though, and are willing to trust your car's electrical system and your safety to a generic fusible link, these are the specs of the stock fusible link:

1.25 square mm nominal gauge.
No more than 50mV voltage drop when carrying 10 amps.
Should melt within 15 seconds when carrying 190 amps.

I wouldn't risk it though.

[QuickDrive]

Any auto parts store should have one for your car.

[Brat4by4]

This will happen on ANY car you do this to by the way. Some you won't be lucky enough to JUST blow a fusible link... you'll blow something dreadful and worth more than the car (like the ecu on something like a Mercedes). Shorting the entire car with all that amperage is not a small thing at all, you are fortunate that nothing else happened. This is nothing Subaru related.

My dad did the reverse terminal deal on one of his Honda's, it blew this huge big-butt battery fuse.