Re: Battery in the trunk, photo's?
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1-ga positive all the way forward. 1-ga negative through the floor & bolted to the frame. Then 4-ga from that same point forward to the block, with a strap from that bolt back to the firewall stock location. Charge wire from the alternator is IIRC 10 ga routed to the switched side of the battery cutoff. Switch is a summit 250 amp.
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Re: Battery in the trunk, photo's?
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Move it close to the quarter and then pretend you have to change it just to make sure its not to hard. I have a fastback barracuda with a small trunk. I have to take the battery and box out together to change the battery, its a real PITA! I wish I would have run that scenario through before I made it permanent.
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Re: Battery in the trunk, photo's?
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Move it close to the quarter and then pretend you have to change it just to make sure its not to hard. I have a fastback barracuda with a small trunk. I have to take the battery and box out together to change the battery, its a real PITA! I wish I would have run that scenario through before I made it permanent. This is something I hadn't considered, my box will be here this afternoon so I'll check it out. Thanks.
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Re: Battery in the trunk, photo's?
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My '66 Charger is the same way. I used some 1" angle like Doug and a lap belt from a 68 Plymouth. The aluminum box '67 has is nice and looks to be three pieces.
On the subject of batteries internally collapsing - has anyone had to heard of this happening in the last 10 years? I had a friend have one act up on him due to this. It worked intermittently, sometimes it would start, sometimes it wouldn't. I don't think its a common problem but its worth consideration when you set the car up. This only applies to a conventional lead acid battery. It doesn't matter for any kind of AGM product like Optima or Odyssey etc.
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Re: Battery in the trunk, photo's?
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Not much room in an E-body for all of this.
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Re: Battery in the trunk, photo's?
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A lot of guys have some type of mount attached to the frame and the battery attaches to the mount. Needs to be 3/8 hardware.
A couple of other things I might suggest are
A) Use Quality crimp terminals, a lot of the kits have cheap small lugs that don't have much surface area for a good connection. Industial wiring lugs are available with 2 bolt holes that can make a much better ground connection
B) Use good cable that is oil/high temp rated (some welding cable is not) type SGT (PVC) or better SGX (cross linked poly) Or spec cable. If it strips easy it nicks easy
C) A little high heat insulation sleeve can really save grief when routing cable by headers or hot sharp stuff
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Re: Battery in the trunk, photo's?
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Sorry Crackedback. I should have said some welding cable not most.
I have seen cheap welding cable with soft rubber insulation used many times. Then the insulation can expand to 2 or 3 times it's original size when soaked with oil and becomes a soft gooey mess that is a delite to work with.
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Re: Battery in the trunk, photo's?
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Sorry Crackedback. I should have said some welding cable not most.
I have seen cheap welding cable with soft rubber insulation used many times. Then the insulation can expand to 2 or 3 times it's original size when soaked with oil and becomes a soft gooey mess that is a delite to work with. That's an easy fix. No leaks, done. Doug
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