Remote Battery - Help me clean up my act..

[jb666]

My car's got the battery in the trunk. First, the kit's run using 4G wire, and I'm going to upgrade to 1G. The other thing, is under the hood where the terminals are is THE WORST setup I've ever seen.... Two terminals are drilled through my fenderwell, about 2" apart.  , at that point, the two cable ends are attached, but jumped off of those are about 8 wires feeding all sorts of accessories.

I'm looking for a setup that runs the cables under the hood but to a nice junction box type of setup, so that I can jump off the positive line without making such a mess.

Does anyone here know of a setup that would clean up my current situation?? If I had pics, I'd post them..



In this pic you can pretty much see the mess I'm talking about. Look on the driver's side upper fenderwell.

[SFRT]

I installed an aluminum box in the trunk with a kill switch mounted on it. then the 2 short leads go through the trunk floor via isolator posts. the neg cable has a grounding strap attached to the rear frame rail. the hot lead runs through a THICK pvc black rubbercoated pipe that runas along the inside of the fram rail and comes up into the engine bay on the passenger side and connects to a heavy duty ford truck solenoid relay. That is connected to the mopar relay and then the starter. I ran 2 additional grounding straps fromn the rear of the block to the frame rail and from
the front of the block to the inner firewall.

there is no 'kit' I ordered all the items seperately from various suppliers and made my own cables from stuff I bought from our local electrical truck guy here.

[62 Max]

Don't take offense but you could fix the problem real quick by putting the battery back where it belongs.

[jb666]

Don't take offense but you could fix the problem real quick by putting the battery back where it belongs.

I wish I could, but with a 472 Hemi under there it's impossible!!! There's no room under there.. Especially with the frame support bars that were welded in there...


For you guys running battery's in the trunk, do you run your negative cable all the way to the engine compartment or did you ground it out on the rear frame rail??

I've been told both will work, but he second option would eliminate quite a bit of cable..

[General_01]

I am thinking about putting the battery in the trunk on my '71. If I do it I am going to run the negative cable to the rear frame. That is the most popular way I have seen it done.

[crzyc68]

I kept the negative cable in the back.  Like you said, too much cable to run both positive and negative to the front.

[Runner]

i grounded mine to the frame ,   i also always use welding cable for battery cable and solder the ends on.