Battery relocation help
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Battery relocation help
I am getting ready to relocate my battery to the back. I am not doing a switch. It's not an issue at local tracks. I have the Taylor kit with 2ga power and ground wire. I am going to run a 200amp fuse on the + side right off the battery. The power wire will go straight to a junction up front. From there I'm going to run 8ga wire to the starter, alt, and fuse block all linked together rather than 3 separate wires from the junction block. Ground everything up front to the body and ground off the battery in the rear. I need to know exactly what kind of fuse to get. Will this setup work properly? Thanks
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I ran 1/0 to the starter. 2ga. from the alt back to the battery with welding cable. Any lesser quality cable will have voltage drop and work the alt. 2 150 amp slow blow fuses. I have a brass feed through on the firewall and take power for a panel and fuse boxes across the inner firewall. I will snap some pics once I finish the carpet.
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I agree on puttng the switch in it while you are doing it. Really doesn't cost that much and is nice and easy to disconnect the battery, esp. if your doing it right and putting it in a box. I didn't use a fuse on mine, I used a stinger 200A breaker on the ground wire. I wasnt sure if it would pop it on the positive side when trying to start it. Works fine on the neg side.
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I agree on puttng the switch in it while you are doing it. Really doesn't cost that much and is nice and easy to disconnect the battery, esp. if your doing it right and putting it in a box. I didn't use a fuse on mine, I used a stinger 200A breaker on the ground wire. I wasnt sure if it would pop it on the positive side when trying to start it. Works fine on the neg side.
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You'll need to run the alternator wire all the way back to the battery. I had mine wired with the alternator wire ran to my dist. block on the fire wall and it wasn't charging my battery well at all. Talked to the electrical engineer at Mt work and he said doing it the way you want to will create "noise" and could possibly mess up some things. So run it to the battery with a 2g cable so it charges the battery and runs the car properly.