School me on battery relocation!
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School me on battery relocation!
I have a 2000ss camaro with a LS3 swap. Relocated the battery to the back & now it takes a while to start. I think a ground is missing or not right. How should everything be run?
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basically relocating a battery is the same in a car no matter where you put it.
it needs a good ground and a good size cable to the ground and going to power.
check all connections , then check your battery if its not reading atleast 12.5 then thats part of your problem
it needs a good ground and a good size cable to the ground and going to power.
check all connections , then check your battery if its not reading atleast 12.5 then thats part of your problem
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The battery was the first thing I checked. But there is something different about routing the cables when relocating the battery. I've read it on here before but can't find it on the search.
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00 here also (welding lead)....and cranks just like it did before the re-location.... ground in trunk and motor is grounded to sub-frame (with weld-in connectors)
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Likely the OP didn't use welding cable and he is getting too much resistance front to back.
I have heard of it working with No 4 cable, but not reliably.
Remember when Lingenfelter built that car and took it to a magazine shootout and lost the spark at speed on a road course and smacked the wall?
Jason finally chased that down to a too small positive cable to the relocated battery as I recall.
Perry
I have heard of it working with No 4 cable, but not reliably.
Remember when Lingenfelter built that car and took it to a magazine shootout and lost the spark at speed on a road course and smacked the wall?
Jason finally chased that down to a too small positive cable to the relocated battery as I recall.
Perry