Battery relocation

SON240sx Automotive
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Alright, so im going to relocate my battery to my trunk. I’ve read diy and shit like that, but Im just wondering where to buy the tray, wire, circuit, and any other shit I need. Ive seen places but they are all american. Im looking for local (within Canada). I hate boarder fees

THANKS

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for the wire … i just got 15 feet of 0 gauge wire from a car audio place… and then go to crappy tire and pick up the terminals

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I used 2 guage welding wire from PA and a 75 amp circuit breaker within 12" of the postive battery connection. For the most security find a tough hose that fits tightly around the wire and ziptie in around it. It will help prevent any rubbing on the positive wire.

I got a box from summit…worked flawlessly for the past year.

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What about for my car to pass safety? Will it pass with it in the trunk? or will I need to put it into the front when I go for it?

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I don’t honestly know. You would have to ask about that. I figure if it’s very well secured and installed properly it could possibly pass. I don’t know though.

I can’t see someone saying that it only goes under the hood because Saturn keeps them in the trunk now…

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If I could I would look at my 240 and maybe snap some pics for you as a reference guide. Don’t forget to have a fuse as a fail safe. I’m sure you know that, I just never saw it mentioned here, so I figured I’d post a reminder just to be safe.

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just a question, do you find 75 amps enough? do it ever trip on you, because starter motors draw around 100-150 amps.

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^Not once has it tripped while starting/running.

I thought that starters pulled that too. Since it never opened I thought that the breaker was a dead one so I tested it by shorted it out and it indeed works.

I might bump it up to 125 amp this year, but since 75 works I don’t know.

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performance improvements has a whole kit and its nhra approved comes with battery box wires hold down some random brackets and i think it was like 100 bucks

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Ok, so list of things I need

  • roughly 15 ft of 2 gauge wire
  • 3-4 ft of negitive wire (not sure the size, anybody?)
  • battery tray
  • Not sure what size fuse I need, nowhere has been able to tell me
  • and a circuit breaker.

What am I missing?

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http://www.racepartsdirect.com/images/G1200A.jpg

thats the kit like summit racing has, but they dont come with any amps.

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Whoops…my bad.

I just went and had a look for what I used.

It’s a 150 amp circuit breaker, NOT 75.

I don’t where I was getting 75 from. :mad:

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Used the same wire for your ground as the positive does.

There is no need for a fuse if you have a good quality circuit breaker.

Some might be calling a cut-off switch a circuit breaker which it is but not in the sense in which you need here.

The circuit breaker I’m speaking of is a resettable fuse in a sense.

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technically you should have either;

-a vented outside the cabin battery box

  • or a sealed battery…

as well as the other mentioned stuff… and a battery tiedown//

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you should use the same gauge wires for both terminals . also get a marine battery box 20-40 bucks from auto supply stores

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if your not using a sealed battery, make a sealed box that vents outside, or even better get a redtop of a sealed agm battery. with the gases and being enclosed in a interior, you might have a smoke or something and boom up you go.

edit just read above post oops.