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battery relocation question



I used a vise grips followed by a hammer followed by solder. THat was for 4 and up. It worked decent, they held as long as they weren't pulled tightly on (like tripping over).

Dan

--- "Vince Royer" <vince@performancecarstereo.com> wrote:
>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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