battery in boot

[Joe]

has anyone thought about putting there battery in the boot?

and what do you guys think of the positive wire in this kit? http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2000W-Complete...083wt_1185

[darrenjlobb]

Few of us have, id not recommend that cheap amp cable stuff as its not even thick enough for its own ratings, and it will crank slower / loose amps...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/RED-25mm-170-A...43a26fe207

Something like that, or even the 35mm stuff is more like what I used, works a treat. Also use decent ground cable in the boot / engine bay to ground everything out.

For an uber pro install a breaker should be in the boot, incase the cable shorts anywhere so it dosnt set the car a blaze!

[1616six]

Mine came out the factory with it neatly placed in an under boot floor compartment

[Matt]

Darren what's needed for a full relocation? What's involved? It's something that I'm going to do soon and have no idea how to go about it, how do you connect it all up in the bay? Any pictures would be great

[Joe]

stfu jordan! lmao not helping ,
and cheers darren! so it needs tobe 25mm or so, i know this sounds really pikey but could i use the wire off extra heavy duty tractor jump leads?

[Chris]

I'd just pull it everything out of a bmw at the scrappy.
Wiring, fuse box in the boot and the terminal under the bonnet and wire it in to the 306.

[Niall]

I'd just pull it everything out of a bmw at the scrappy.
Wiring, fuse box in the boot and the terminal under the bonnet and wire it in to the 306.

This

Jump leads arnt designed to be used regularly and they are only a temp measure. Problem is the strands are a lot thinner to allow you to fold jump leads up but proper battery wire, the strands are a lot thicker because it doesn't get bent around.

[darrenjlobb]

What Niall said ^

You basically need length of decent cable, pair of decent battery terminals, battery box, some ring crimps for earth cables, some short DECENT cable for earth straps, in the engine bay you need to connect the cable to the starter, remove the old cable, and connect a feed between there and the engine fuse box, or just get a splitter thing and connect the old battery feeds to the new cable, depends how tidy you want to be... then earth strap from engine to chassis, and battery to chasssis and jobs good.

[HDIkyle]

I am going to be doing this as atm I have 0awg running tho the car for the amps in the boot. would it work if I was to simly switch the battery to the other end in the boot and leave the battery clamp as it was? Then earths ofcourse