Battery Relocation help

97stanger · Oct 13, 2009

As some of you know, I am in the process of doing some pretty major work to my car. I already am in the process of doing the valvesprings/retainers, then putting the blower cams in. Next step will be to order the Snow Performance stage 2 meth kit with solenoid upgrade. While doing this, I am going to be relocating the battery to the trunk so that I can mount the meth tank under the hood where the battery sat.

I was originally going to go with this Taylor relocation kit and a kill switch from Jegs. Now the Taylor relocation kit is about $200 and the kill switch is $50. So as you can see it wont be THAT cheap of a little project, about $250
http://www.summitracing.com/parts/TAY-48204/?image=large
http://www.jegs.com/p/JEGS/JEGS-300A-Master-Disconnect-Switch/1016943/10002/-1

Now while doing some more searching, I was on American Muscle and came across this battery relocation on sale during the month of October for $100 and a kill switch for $30. So $130 said and done.
http://www.americanmuscle.com/taylor-batterybox.html
http://www.americanmuscle.com/taylor-battery-disconnect.html

For the $99 one, it does say "taylor" on the relocation box and as well as on the switch. It also says that it is acceptable for all NHRA rules, so will this kit be fine to use and save me some bucks? thanks guys

97stanger · Oct 13, 2009

it looks as though no cable is included though. hhmmm, im not too suave when it comes to electrical work, but how much should cable run me, and what guage should i need? how long?

duff daddy · Oct 13, 2009

the lower the gauge the better, i would just buy the kit and spend the extra money that way if you have issues its done by a company who will stand up behind it

dafizuck · Oct 13, 2009

Duff Daddy said:
the lower the gauge the better, i would just buy the kit and spend the extra money that way if you have issues its done by a company who will stand up behind it

+1

duff daddy · Oct 13, 2009

and it looks better should you car go up in flames and they blame it on chucks battery relocation kit

tommybunz · Oct 13, 2009

i think you may need a swith that can handle our amperage

Traidmarx · Oct 13, 2009

we did it in my friend 97 cobra...we used a zero gauge wire, i think we got 10 ft. i would suggest 12. because it were cutting it close with wire. there are two rubber stops in the bottom of the trunk under everything. we took the drivers side one out...and ran the wires down through there, and along the underbody of the car. and ran them up to the original ground and power wires, and bought clamps to keep those together, then ran 2 10 guage wires from those neg. and pos. posts down to the starter. and it worked perfect.

97stanger · Oct 13, 2009

well, the $99 one from American Muscle is made by Taylor as well. It looks to me the only thing it does not include is the wiring....

97stanger · Oct 13, 2009

you guys might be right though, it will prob be easier/safer to just go with the kit and be done with it.

Could I cheap out on the switch though and go with this Taylor master disconnect switch? it says it can handle 180 continuous amps....like i said i am not too electrical suave haha

http://www.americanmuscle.com/taylor-battery-disconnect.html

95PGTTech · Oct 13, 2009

I have that JEGS switch and it was defective out of the box. It wouldn't kill the car except in one small window position. You'd flip it to off and unless you wiggled it around you couldn't find the dead spot. Check it with a multimeter when you get it.

DropTopPony · Oct 14, 2009

^^^^^

Check out 95's build thread, he covers some good stuff with the rear battery install.

97stanger · Oct 14, 2009

cool, ill check it out

95opal · Oct 14, 2009

I would just go to a welding supply shop and grab some 1ot wire as far as the box goes you can have one fabricated to meet your needs. The kits a pretty lame INHO i bought one and never used it.

tommybunz · Oct 14, 2009

i used a autozone box with my taylor wire kit it looks nice. $7 box fm the zone

97stanger · Oct 14, 2009

here is the $99 one from AM
http://mustangboards.com/general-tech-forum/38188-battery-relocation-help.html

Im now thinking I could probably just go with this cheaper $100 kit, go to a welding shop and grab some 1 guage wire and be done with it???

blown98gt · Oct 14, 2009

You realize you don't have to relocate the battery for your snow kit right? The kit comes with instructions on using your windshield wiper tank to hold the meth mix and I put my pump in the driver side fender, it would've been a lot easier i'm sure to use a battery relocation kit and put it all there but my kit is hidden so if you didn't know any better you'd never tell i've got a meth kit.

The taylor kit is way over priced, but the cables aren't as expensive as you think. I can't remember the exact price but 1g wire is like approx 30 bucks for 10ft might have changed but last i remember it was a bit high so might want to look into wire too before you buy a kit.