relocating battery to trunk...how much wire?

hoamskilet

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One of my little winter projects is gonna be moving my battery to the trunk in my 95 cobra. I'm going to be ordering some welding cable soon here and was wondering if anybody had a good idea of gauges/lengths of wire I need to get. thanks.

 

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Im sure you could run some string along were you would be running the cable and get a pretty good idea

 

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If you don't want to go through the hassle of building your own box and everything. Just order this kit from summit. That's what I did. Btw, they include 20 feet of positive cable. I'm not sure how much you actually need though...

http://store.summitracing.com/defau...eywordSearch&DDS=1&N=115&target=egnsearch.asp
(Scroll down and look at the black summit racing kit.)

 

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iv got some questions on relocating the battery, n00b questions. so when the battery is in the trunk, you use the 20' of positive cable and run it from the trunk, all the way to the cable in the engine bay that was once connected to the positive terminal on the battery? what do you do with the negative wire? i am very confused.

 

RFMustangGT

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take the (-) and just run it to the closest ground. should not be more than a foot and a hlaf to to two feet long.

 

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RFMustangGT said:

take the (-) and just run it to the closest ground. should not be more than a foot and a hlaf to to two feet long.

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what do i do with the negative thats in the engine bay? just ground that one where ever?

 

RFMustangGT

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that or take it out. the only purpose of the negative is to ground the system. once you do the relocation the wire is pointless in th engine bay so you might as well take it out to clean up things.

 

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After doing a search on the web, I ran my ground back to the original ground in the engine compartment. Some say you don't need to (as noted above), others have noted problems when the ground is moved. I used 1/0 gauge for the positive cable & 2 gauge for the ground. I haven't had any problems with starting. I did this about 2 years (40,000 miles) ago.

I also ended up putting the battery on the driver side in the trunk. I was concerned about the lack of room on the passenger side where the gas tank actually rises under the trunk deck and the fuel lines exit the tank.

I've got a write up with pics on what I did if you pm me an e-mail address.

 

1PissedOffCobra

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Check these out

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Bill...ewItemQQcategoryZ33575QQitemZ8021269311QQrdZ1

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/75-3...33575QQitemZ8022640604QQrdZ1QQsspagenameZWDVW

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/D31-...ryZ33575QQssPageNameZWD1VQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

They dont come with the wire, but do look hella cool. Ima probably use one for my relocation.

 

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Over the years I've seen peeps say they had various probs with trunk mount battery relocations where they grounded to the frame close to the new battery location.

They ran same size wire to the original ground location and all probs were gone.

Again ... just info I have seen on these forums!

Grady

 

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hookups333

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Sorry for the dumb question but what exactly does a battery relocation do?

 

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95_5.0_stang

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hookups333 said:

Sorry for the dumb question but what exactly does a battery relocation do?

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Moves some weight over the rear axle, and also cleans up the engine bay if you need room for a turbo, or just want a clean look.

 

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hookups333

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alright thankyou