battery relocation question

[vince@performancecarstereo.com (Vince Royer)]

Just a note on all this battery stuff.  Here's my take:

I wanted to get the weight of the battery right between the 2 wheels and as
low as possible to lower the center of gravity.  In the future I think I
will cut out the well and make my own, but I'll wait for the stereo work to
start that.  For now I dropped the battery box down into the wheel well as
far forward as possible and scewed it down.

I'm using 1/0 phoenix gold power cable, through a 350 amp circuit breaker.
I have a distribution block up front sending 4 AWG to the Starter & 4 AWG to
the Alternator.  I used the battery I had, it has a vent hose which I routed
out the bottom.

I also have another neat trick.  I recently had my car stolen and really
don't want it happening again. If a theif cuts your battery cable, alarm
goes bye-bye.  So I ran a second 8 gauge cable from the battery directly
into the main power input from the fusebox.  That way I was able to
eleminate the old corroded wire coming through the firewall.  Suddenly all
my electronic devices performed better - like all the bulbs/wipers/fan etc.
I guess I freed up some electrons, but the biggest thing I gained was the
security.  Now there is no way of disabling the alarm from outside the car.

Cheers!

Vince



-----Original Message-----
From: scirocco-l-admin@scirocco.org
[mailto:scirocco-l-admin@scirocco.org]On Behalf Of Joe Doty
Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 2:29 PM
To: Ryan H; scirocco-l@scirocco.org
Subject: RE: battery relocation question


I used a bench vise.  Worked great!

Joe Doty
IT/Development
joe@lcnetwork.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ryan H [mailto:rhock99@epix.net]
> Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 1:30 PM
> To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> Subject: Re: battery relocation question
>
> All this battery talk brings about an interesting question of mine: I
> bought the cheapo Summit kit, what kinda tool should I use to crimp
the
> end connectors (battery terminal connections are pre-crimped already)?
I
> don't think my trusty wire cutter/crimper will work for 2 gauge wire.
;)
>
>
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