Battery Reloq. - wire size, routing, battery location etc.

[rfkellner@snet.net (Rick Kellner)]

Michael said that he has his battery un-vented, has anyone tried to vent it
to the outside?  Maybe a plastic battery box for a boat?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Leach, Michael" <michael.leach@lmco.com>
To: <rapieper@yahoo.com>; <scirious@hotmail.com>; <tberk@mindspring.com>;
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Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 8:29 AM
Subject: Re: Battery Reloq. - wire size, routing, battery location etc.


> Well I am probably going to get slammed for some of this but what the
hell.
> And I will say that I have had things this way for two entire seasons of
> driving.
>
> I relocated my battery to the back passenger corner of the trunk in a
> "unvented" battery box bolted through the floor of the trunk with two
bolts.
> I then ran the 12 volt line, 2 Awg I believe, Through the hole in the
bottom
> of the spare tire well along the BOTTOM of the car attached to the Brake
> lines up to a terminal block located in the area where the battery used to
> be.  From there it was distributed to all of the connectors that used to
> connect to the battery.   My ground line was connected to the seat belt
post
> in the front of the trunk.  The only thing I did there was to be sure
there
> was some bare metal for the lug to make contact with.  The next season in
> preparation for a spare tire mounted Subwoofer....which I have still not
> completed.....I raised the floor of the trunk using high density particle
> board and 2x4's  when I did this I cut the majority of the battery box
away
> just leaving a shallow tub for the battery so only the battery itself was
> showing above the sub floor.
>
> In the two summers I have driven the car this way I have never had
starting
> problems.
>
> I really think I should have a fuse located near the battery to prevent
> serious damage on a short but I have not done it yet...maybe this year
>
> any questions you have about the lazy way I routed the wiring or anything
> else feel free to ask
>
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