Crossed Battery Terminals..help!

[basketballbest25]

Alright, call me what you want, but after SUCCESSFULLY bleeding my clutch line and fixing my clutch.. I somehow crossed battery wires and yeaaaaahhh.. bad shit. Somehow one of the negative wires got caught up in the positive wire group... so after the postive side was all connected and I started to connect the negative side there was spark show. When the cloud of sparks blew up in my face, somehow the battery wire dropppppped right onto the terminal.. still making the cross and sending sparks... and stuff everywhere. Somehow, the groud wire on the frame (at the back of the engine, going from the firewall to the frame, halfway left to right) caught on fire for a split second before I could finally grab that wire off of the negative terminal. So as you may suspect, after I reconnected the battery CORRECTLY... there was nothing. No interior lights/radio and nothing when I turned the key... dead. SOOOO... any ideas on what it will be/cost? I had it towed to the shop.. but I was wondering how bad I messed things up.
Thanks guys for any ideas, like I said, I know Im and idiot.. honest mistake.. I suck.. but I'd appreciate the help. Thanks.

[Stealthee]

As long as you didnt actually burn none of the wirign harness you probably fried the batery and blew some fuses. You may very well be okay.

[basketballbest25]

well I hope thats all it is, thanks

[Musashi3000GT]

I'm gonna put my money on quite the opposite outcome. A flux for that length of time for sure fried alot of crap. In some cases the car will try to ground throught the acclerator cable and weld it to the gide frame, you probably blew alot of fuses and relays and I dont know if the car has to be ON for the ECU to fry but thats a possibility too.
Go ahead and get it inspected and best of luck to ya.

psst, pssssst hey Stealthee, 20 bucks says he wont be able to fix it and have to get rid of it, I have a pool going you want in?

[AutostradaVR4]

spend the money for the fuses before you assume the worst.....but sadly, theres probably a pretty good chance some other stuff is cooked like musashi said...

[SHO411]

I agree with all, their could be some serious damage, but before letting them fix anythin, replace ALL fuses in the fuse box, and ALL the relays, and see if that helps, after doing that, then let them check it. Other wise, they'll probably charge you for diagnosing that your fuses are all burnt up, then replace them, then they'll probably charge you again to determine what else was messed up. Good luck, hope nothing serious.

[Twizted_3KGT]

You probably just blew your 120 amp main fuse.

I did the same thing once, only I tightened it down, and tried starting the car with them reversed. Just the fuse blew. Once that fuse blows, you can't get power into the car to hurt anything else.

[SHO411]

cool, so then he might just avoid some very costly repairs.................. Do that, and next time Zip the damn things before you start a small fire and burn shit up.

[jason_bet]

damn.. good luck and let us know.. im interested to find out what damage was done..