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Old 02-05-2006, 01:30 AM
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I plan to relocate my battery soon, and I'm going to use 1/0 welder's cable ( fused with a 200 amp ANL fuse ) to run from the rear of the car to the front. Of course, I'm gonna ground it in the back to the seatbelt mount.

Question is, how to do the wires up front.

Can I run the 1/0 cable to something like this?

http://www.raptor-online.com/product...ual.php?id=174

What gauge wire is the factory positive? Can I just cut the end off the two wires that are there and run them into the distribution block above?

Any help would be greatly appreciated guys.

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Yes, that is a splitter that takes a ALT ga wire and splits it into multiple 4ga wires.

Why are you running 0ga wire?
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Yes, that is a splitter that takes a ALT ga wire and splits it into multiple 4ga wires.

Why are you running 0ga wire?
Because I can get 1600 strand welder's cable for cheap. I want maximum size combined with awesome flexibility. In short, I don't want to have any problem with starting/charging.

So the factory positive wires are 4 ga?
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No the factory uses 8ga. (I missed that on your original post)




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