Re: Relocating battery to trunk.

["Chris Chemidlin" <spredhaus@hotmail.com>]

Dave,
I saved this for a while, I planned on doing it later. Its Later!!

Couple of questions for ya...
-the connections that are all at the battery now (the little ones)- can I 
just connect them to the starter?
- Your ground cable (in the engine compartmemt) is it stock?
- When the 4gauge wire from the trunk gets to the alternator, does it split 
in half to connect to the 2 alternator leads? then- did you use 4gauge to go 
to the starter, too?

I'm doing this not really to save weight, but because the battery tie down 
in my 'vert is a mess, and I have a mile of 4 gauge with a hella disconnect.

Oh, that's a good question--

Can I use the Hella disconnect in the positive side?

Thanks!
CHRIS CHEMIDLIN
http://www.spredhaus.com
http://www.angelfire.com/nj/spredhaus
58 Type1 Ragtop
84 Jetta uGLi morte
82 'vert





>From: HOTGTX@aol.com
>
>Hey
>I did this about 2 years ago.  I used four gauge wire from the trunk to the
>alternator.  I then went from the alternator to the starter.  I mounted the
>battery in a marine plastic case I got from Wal-mart for $8.
>I used a 2 gauge wire to run from the neg. terminal to the bolt holding the
>bumper strut to the frame.  Make sure you grind to bare metal !!!!!  I also
>added an extra ground wire from the alternator to the frame.
>I have Euro lights and a killer stereo in my car.  I have not had a problem
>with this setup yet.  Just make sure you have bare metal and good 
>connections.
>
>Dave
>85 Scirocco GTX




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