bingo

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Does anybody have pics of the battery relocated to the rear glove box? I am wanting to do this to keep my spare and jack intact. Is there a kit availible or will I have to fab up something? Didn't SLP mount the battery here for the Firehawk? Just looking for pics and ideas.

xjcamaro89

I would also like to see some picks and some more information on that.

bingo

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I was hoping that someone would respond with Firehawk pics or an SLP part number.

transam84

well mine isn't on the drivers side but here is mine on the pass side.

JeremyNYR

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I have mine in the drivers side compartment. I got a relocation kit from Summit made by Taylor. I had to cut two corners of the battery tray supplied with the kit to get it to sit far enough back so the plastic piece wasn't interfered with. I also had to cut down the threaded rods on the hold-down.





I gave some details on the install in this thread:
https://www.thirdgen.org/forums/auto...-my-clean.html

bingo

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That is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you. Does the battery rattle around back there or is it pretty solid? Which optima is that?

JeremyNYR

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i'm glad i could help. it's mounted very solid, no wobble. It did move around a bit with just the two bottom bolts in, but the 3rd smaller one on the back lip stabilized it very well. I cut away at the tray little by little so it fit tightly into place, which i think helped reduce any movement too. It's an Optima Red Top, i don't know if the models are broken down more specifically than that.. i got the battery about 2 years ago now.

bingo

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I am definitely going to mount my battery like that. I knew it was possible to move the battery to the rear and keep the spare tire.

vorgath

How many cables do you have to run back to the engine compartment ? What gauge ? And well most important I guess, where do you guys run all the cables going back to the front of the car ?

AJ89Irocz

This is what i did:
Optima Red top in rear, I used 4awg wire all wround. From the batter i ran 2 grounds, one to the inner wheel well and the other to the subframe under the car. I ran a power wire to a stinger 150amp cuicut braker then under the car up into the engine bay ontop of the driverside fender well. There i monted a Stinger distribution block, from that i ran other wire to the starter and on the the alternator. This is good because u can still jump the car from under the hood ( just clamp the jumper cable onto the distribution block. Where the batter was in the front, i took the ground from the block and attached it to where the batter used to set.Ill post pics as soon as I can, for all the wire, connectors, circuit braker, distribution block,etc was about $110.00
With the batter in the back you can hardly notice the delay from the batter to starter when starting, if i could do it again, id prolly use 0awg wire instead. I didnt even mount my batter either and it never moves around. The system can also be turned up more since the battery is so close, good luck on your poject!