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Re: battery relocation
I did if for the weight distribution. It does take up some trunk space,
but since I don't have back seats and haul stuff around in my Jetta, I've
got the space to spare. It really wasn't all that difficult, at least in
my circumstance. I bought the Summit kit for ~ $40 and ran the positive
cable under the carpet along the center tube. I hooked it through the
center console (sp?) and passed it through the firewall at one of the
holes leftover when I pulled out my AC. I ran it across the firewall
behind the engine, down the driver's side fender to the space where the
battery used to be. I avoided the whole rewiring issue by mounting two
battery terminal posts (bought at Trak Auto for a few bucks) to a block
of wood that was bolted to where the battery used to go. Then I simply
reattached the factory battery cables to the terminals. The whole
process took about 3 hours, start to finish.
B.
'82 Scirocco (aka "Fritz")
'85 Jetta
GO HOKIES!!!
On Wed, 1 Dec 1999 19:25:19 EST Captnbr@aol.com writes:
>Just out of curiosity, why do people want to move their battery from
>the
>normal place to the back of the car. What is gained from this, sounds
>like a
>pain in the ass to do with the starter cables and alternator cables.
>Inquiring mind wants to know.
>
>Brian 86 16v
>http://hometown.aol.com/captnbr/myhomepage/auto.html
>
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