You know you want to move your battery to the trunk but you don't want to fork over more then $50 for a kit! I will show you how you can do it for under $25 and in less then an hour of work!
First: What you need and where to get it!
Very high quality wire!
Battery Tray, Negative Battery wire, Battery Tiedown (for the tray), Positive Terminal
**it's better to use a box and you can get those for $12 from autozone**
You can use your old negative wire but mine was corroded so I got a new one.
The battery tray is very firm I was supprised it's high quality for that price! if you want you can get a battery box for $12. All parts were bought at Autozone but almost all auto parts stores will have these parts.
The Wire is run through where the ECU wires enter the car (passenger side to the left of the metal AC lines) Then down under the dash and past the ECU
You undo the screws for the door molding. Under the molding there are white plastic clips that hold the carpet up you just pull the carpet up along the edge (it's not glued down so it's very easy!) and run the wire along the edge. Along under the rear seats and through the opening to the trunk.
The wire is routed behind the molding to where the battery is. I put it on the passenger side since I want as even weight distribution as possible. (I don't usually have passengers)
I cleaned the paint off the spare tire holder and used it as a ground it seems to work very well you might use a different spot. My car runs much better then it did before I moved the battery most likely due to the new negative wire.
This is what the back looks like all hooked up.
You use six 3/4inch self tapping self sealing metal screws to hold the box down. if you place it where I did you will not have to worry about hitting the gas tank.
Now onto the engine compartment hookup! I used a hidden Kill switch with built in fuse to link the two wires. Connect the Wire that was hooked upto the battery in the engine compartment to the new line and use rubber insilation tape and then electrical tape on all the conections. I chose to put the fuse at this point to have an clean line through the car.
As you can see I then put in a short cold air intake for improved throttle responce! also moving the battery leaves room for my intercooler pipeing once I go KA-T!
My battery weighs 25 pounds so it's a total of 50 pounds different in weight disturbution! -25 from the front, +25 in the back
Well that's it! very easy and it took me less then an hour a very worthwhile mod!
If you want to know about the short intake it's a aluminum turbo cold air pipe from a Volvo I got it for $5 from my junkyard with the rubber connectors!! And yes I know APC Filters SUCK
Keep in mind that you will be requireing more from your battery after doing this I had trouble at the last event because my battery was not upto the task (it is now RIP in battery heaven) so I had to get a new bigger battery (dry cell
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