Battery Relocation
03-30-2003, 10:47 PM
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03-31-2003, 07:52 PM
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I did mine in the passenger storage bin with no problem. Used a Miata battery and ran the positive cable from the starter, down the frame rail with the fuel lines, through a hole in the floor. Drilled a couple of holes for the battery hold down bolts and that was it.
03-31-2003, 10:06 PM
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Yeah the post that direct linked you to was the one i got no REAL responses to. Here is how i'm going to do mine:
Tie down the battery in the pass bin.
Make the neg terminal go to the seatBELT bolt, about less than a foot away.
pos goes to the starter, and then the other wire goes somewhere (the smaller red wire).
I forgot. I'll talk to my buddy carl as soon as i get the money for wires and a tie down.
~Geoff
Tie down the battery in the pass bin.
Make the neg terminal go to the seatBELT bolt, about less than a foot away.
pos goes to the starter, and then the other wire goes somewhere (the smaller red wire).
I forgot. I'll talk to my buddy carl as soon as i get the money for wires and a tie down.
~Geoff
03-31-2003, 10:16 PM
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dont forget to mount the batterey well, we worked on an fd this weekend with a battery relocation, and the battery is loose. it appears as if the battery was moving around and it loosened the cables. we arent sure yet but it may have been bad enough to lower the voltage enough to slow down the fuel pump and pop the motor
mike
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03-31-2003, 10:59 PM
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Especially if the + cable grounded itself out on the body or at the hole it
passes through.
Another thing to think about is having a acid resistant battery tray with drainage
if your thinking about a normal liquid-acid-type battery. Or a marine style battery
box.
just a thought.
passes through.
Another thing to think about is having a acid resistant battery tray with drainage
if your thinking about a normal liquid-acid-type battery. Or a marine style battery
box.
just a thought.
03-31-2003, 11:35 PM
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I've got an odessey lead-acid battery, odessey make the gel cell batteries as well. The lead-acid battery I have is a completely sealed, zero-maintenance, lead-acid. It can be mounted in any position except completely inverted. The gel-cells can be mounted anywhere at all, but they are $$ around AUS$300-400. 
04-01-2003, 12:26 AM
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Originally Posted by drifter' date='Mar 31 2003, 09:35 PM
I've got an odessey lead-acid battery, odessey make the gel cell batteries as well. The lead-acid battery I have is a completely sealed, zero-maintenance, lead-acid. It can be mounted in any position except completely inverted. The gel-cells can be mounted anywhere at all, but they are $$ around AUS$300-400.
mike