moving battery to boot.

[Righttoe]

Ive done this two, easy mod and looks great, could then move airfilter and fit in oil catch tank nicely. All i did was run one cable from starter motor to boot carefully for positive, then one cable from starter to the fuse box that was originally on the battery, a good earth to chasis of car in boot from negative on battery, and modifed the old fuse box so i could bolt it where the battery used to sit.

Job done

 

[kyle'87]

Ive done this two, easy mod and looks great, could then move airfilter and fit in oil catch tank nicely. All i did was run one cable from starter motor to boot carefully for positive, then one cable from starter to the fuse box that was originally on the battery, a good earth to chasis of car in boot from negative on battery, and modifed the old fuse box so i could bolt it where the battery used to sit.

Job done

Thats exactly the info I was looking for, cheers dude

 

[peter_cupra197]

pictures of the bay and boot after relocation?

 

[cuprachrissy]

ive noticed that everyone has put there battery under the floor plan of the boot (where the spare wheel is), problem with my car is i have a custom amp and crossover install under there (inbetween the spare wheel and boot floor) can i just have it in the boot?like where the cd changer is etc??

 

[Righttoe]

yes you can, i will upload the pics later, i got a battery holder and just put it the otherside of boot to the cd changer, going to get a cover for it tho so nothing shorts it out!

 

[Righttoe]

Battery before

Battery gone

In boot

Earth point and live cable run through back

 

[PhilW]

What gauge cable is that? Looks pretty thin to me.

 

[kyle'87]

looks like 2 gauge to me?

Thats looks really good righttoe!!!

Just to confirm that live cable is coming from the starter motor?

Where is the live that is on the black fuse box still in the engine bay connected to?

 

[PhilW]

The wire from the fuse box goes to the starter motor as well.

 

[kyle'87]

The wire from the fuse box goes to the starter motor as well.

cheers Phil

 

[Righttoe]

PhilW- it is toughened battery cable from a automotive shop, yea thinks it 2AWG its huge, and other people use 4AWG which is thinner so im ok

Kyle'87 - Yea as phil said the main live bar on the fuse box needs to go to the starter, and the live from the battery, if you trace back the old live coming from the battery it will just go about half a meter down onto a bolt on the starter, it has a plastic protective cap on the end of the bolt!

Mike

 

[kyle'87]

PhilW- it is toughened battery cable from a automotive shop, yea thinks it 2AWG its huge, and other people use 4AWG which is thinner so im ok

Kyle'87 - Yea as phil said the main live bar on the fuse box needs to go to the starter, and the live from the battery, if you trace back the old live coming from the battery it will just go about half a meter down onto a bolt on the starter, it has a plastic protective cap on the end of the bolt!

Mike

cheers mike, thats was my next question asking where the starter motor was

 

[Righttoe]

Glad to be of help, just the main thing I was careful about, just make sure you run the live cable neatly and safely, like where i drilled a whole for it to run through use rubber grommits and make sure nothing will cut through it.

Mike

 

[kyle'87]

Glad to be of help, just the main thing I was careful about, just make sure you run the live cable neatly and safely, like where i drilled a whole for it to run through use rubber grommits and make sure nothing will cut through it.

Mike

Yeh I will make sure, not keen on fireworks in the rear of my car lol or an exploding battery

 

[Righttoe]

damn striaght lol

 

[arron2004]

Glad to see that battery in the boot! Here a few pics of mine

I want to buy the smaller new fuse holder that was original on top of battery but i dont know if it was off a different car but some one on here did it!

 

[__B3NNY__]

Im looking to get my wires and stuff together tommrow to do this, just wondering will i need to get some new 'O' rings to connect the wire to the starter motor? If so what kind of size?

And just the clarifiy, all i have to do with the fuse box is connect the existing wire from the back of the fuse box to the starter motor? What happens to the metel strap thats under the cover on the fues box which connects to the live terminal?

And i`d like to move the fuse box into the wing out of site, would it just be a matter of extending the the wire? If so do they make joiners for that kind of thing, and what sort of wire would be used to join them?

Will i need a distribution block when do ing it this way?

Will i need a

Extend the ground to tyhe boot? You got a negatibe terminal on your battery mate, short piece of cable to a good clean point in your boot will do.

Only need one cable to the boot.

Your making this way too complicated.

Easiest way is to run one cable from the battery direct to the starter motor and earth the battery in the boot. Thats it.

Electrics is nowhere near my best subject

 

[Forbez]

I want to get Phil to do mine for me.

 

[tom w]

does this make that much difference ??? for overall balance of the car (corner weight)????

 

[The MoffMeister]

read up on it through robdons link but yes chucking weight to back does help