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How have you fixed your relocated battery - HDIkyle - 09-01-2013
What do people use for this? I was wanting to use a fibreglass or metal tray to mount into the bootfloor so to use aslittle space in the boot but has anyone else done this?
RE: How have you fixed your relocated battery - Birk - 09-01-2013
I just bent some flat bar to hold it to the boot floor in Dimma.
RE: How have you fixed your relocated battery - Rippthrough - 09-01-2013
Great big self tapper straight through the middle, it'll be fine. Honest.
RE: How have you fixed your relocated battery - HDIkyle - 09-01-2013
Hmm i would prefer it enclosed tbh, Dan was that in the boot or under the car?
Anyway Phil! Where is my slightly bent bar???
RE: How have you fixed your relocated battery - Just Sean - 09-01-2013
I enclosed mine in a box mate...
RE: How have you fixed your relocated battery - HDIkyle - 09-01-2013
That's what I am doing but want it sunk tho the bootfloor. Would fibreglass be strong enuff to support a battery?
How have you fixed your relocated battery - Jonny b - 09-01-2013
Iam using a sealed marine battery box can get em on eBay
RE: How have you fixed your relocated battery - Eeyore - 09-01-2013
(09-01-2013, 05:53 PM)HDIkyle Wrote: That's what I am doing but want it sunk tho the bootfloor. Would fibreglass be strong enuff to support a battery?
I would get something welded personally. Then its metal to metal. Not sure how you would wrk fibreglass to metal.
RE: How have you fixed your relocated battery - samass - 09-01-2013
(09-01-2013, 06:33 PM)SRowell Wrote: I would get something welded personally. Then its metal to metal. Not sure how you would wrk fibreglass to metal.
with some bolts....
RE: How have you fixed your relocated battery - HDIkyle - 09-01-2013
Pop rivets and some sikiflex to seal it I was thinking
RE: How have you fixed your relocated battery - Birk - 09-01-2013
Just sat in the boot mate, I want to sink it in the floor, but couldn't be arsed to find a box lol
RE: How have you fixed your relocated battery - Rippthrough - 09-01-2013
Just bond a fibreglass box in, if you use a decent polyurethane or epoxy adhesive you'll be able to jack the car on it....
RE: How have you fixed your relocated battery - karl1989 - 09-01-2013
cant your use a original box fromt the engine bay with the lid ant the metal bottom plate and bolt it to the boot floor?
RE: How have you fixed your relocated battery - ozonehostile - 09-01-2013
I've got a box welded into the bootfloor, all painted and sealed. Really looks a lot better than just having a box on the boot somewhere
How have you fixed your relocated battery - Jonny b - 09-01-2013
(09-01-2013, 09:31 PM)ozonehostile Wrote: I've got a box welded into the bootfloor, all painted and sealed. Really looks a lot better than just having a box on the boot somewhere
That's what Iam going to do when we corner weight it!
RE: How have you fixed your relocated battery - HDIkyle - 09-01-2013
Ill just use a fibreglass race box can get em for 30 on ebay and some sealant we use for bonding train windows in. Karl mine is just a metal tray I gut out as the bolts rusted didn't even hold the battery it just sat on it kinda
RE: How have you fixed your relocated battery - weasle1uk - 09-01-2013
Anyone got pics of it sunk in to the boot?
RE: How have you fixed your relocated battery - ozonehostile - 09-01-2013
not a particulerly great picture, but you get the idea
![[Image: IMAG04331.jpg]](http://i1310.photobucket.com/albums/s649/ozonehostile/IMAG04331.jpg)
RE: How have you fixed your relocated battery - Rippthrough - 10-01-2013
You should have a vent on that really, otherwise the fumes can start to attack the steel if they build up when it's charging. They're particularly nice for your lungs either....
RE: How have you fixed your relocated battery - ozonehostile - 11-01-2013
theres no top on the battery box so i figured it would be ok. am i wrong?
RE: How have you fixed your relocated battery - sweeney1987 - 11-01-2013
should really be vented externally, would prefer top sealed and a couple holes outside underneath if it were me..
RE: How have you fixed your relocated battery - ozonehostile - 11-01-2013
i think i might have to do that then. just didnt want the box filling up with water
RE: How have you fixed your relocated battery - Rippthrough - 11-01-2013
Yeah, you want to vent the fumes outside the car really.
How have you fixed your relocated battery - Jonny b - 11-01-2013
Iam going to vent mine with a couple of tubes out the top into the rear sunroof drain holes, with a sealed marine box
RE: How have you fixed your relocated battery - ozonehostile - 11-01-2013
at least for me a vent should be easy, just need to run a tube from the box to the wheelarch or something