battery relocation questions

[eksplosivejoe13]

i have a 96 mustang gt, what gauge wire should i be using and how do i wire it up? doesnt need to be track legal, i just want to move the battery to the trunk. Anybody have a diagram?

also, while i'm doing that i was thinking of upgrading some ground wires. Where are the grounds that i should upgrade?

 

[duff daddy]

Use 2gauge will be fine. Make a good ground, and run the power wire up to the PDC (Power Distribution Center...fues box) and call it done. The ground, remove your trunk striker, grind the paint on body and the striker back side, and put it there.

If its not street legal, its easy to do.

 

[eksplosivejoe13]

OK, so if i wanted it to be track legal, with a cut off switch, how would i wire it?

 

[duff daddy]

you would have to wire it so that you interupt the electrical flow from the alternator back to the battery.

I had a better diagram but his was the first one I could find.

 

[duff daddy]

I wouldnt put the fuse in the alternator wire. I would just run a straight wire.

 

[eksplosivejoe13]

I've read that some people use a starter solenoid when they relocate the battery so that the wires going through the car arent hot all the time. any idea how to wire that up? i read something before about it, but i cant find it now

 

[duff daddy]

That I dont. Chrysler LX cars (04 300+ Chrager, Magnum, Challengers ) all have batteries in the trunk, and they are hot all the time.

 

[eksplosivejoe13]

Hmm... i guess it cant be too bad then.
I found this:
http://mustangforums.com/forum/5-0l-1979-1995-mustang/53284-battery-relocation-made-easy.html
what do you think?

 

[duff daddy]

sounds alright, the graph you could see i posted was a little easier to follow then reading for me

 

[ttocs]

I wouldnt put the fuse in the alternator wire. I would just run a straight wire.

why? I mean I realize that the voltage regulator will pop before that wire welds itself to the chassis but why wouldn't you want to replace a 50 cent fuse then the voltage regulator?

 

[duff daddy]

If you look at the stock charge back wire I dont believe they have a fuse. I would look on my factory manual but rightn ow they are MIA since I moved.

 

[ttocs]

there is a fusable link inline.

 

[duff daddy]

Ok so I was wrong, I would get one back in there. My understanding was he was proposing to do "more" then stock.

 

[2slo95fiveoh]

I was thinking about soldering in the factory fusable link into a new wire running from my alternator to the trunk, that way it (in electrical terms)
functions like factory.

 

[ttocs]

just use a fuse.