Battery Box

[BobbyFord]

I fabbed up a battery box/bracket to relocate my battery under the bed, on the right frame rail, in front of the right rear tire. It will be sandblasted and then POR15'ed, with a piece of aluminum diamond plate in the bottom. I'm going to mount my MSD box in the engine compartment where the battery use to was....*EDIT* Oh yeah, Optima battery to eliminate the worry of seepage.

[fordman]

what size of wire would you use for a run that long?

[BobbyFord]

Prolly going to get something like this:
http://www.summitracing.com/parts/SUM-G1206/

[fordman]

what gaue is our regular cables. both of those links are two different gauge wires. the one from sumit is 1 gauge and the second link is 2 gauge.

[mlheppl]

The negative is probably a 8 or 6 guage, the positive is probably 6 guage for the original battery cables.

[1971ford]

I run my battery in the bed on my desert racer. Go down to the welding supply store and pick up a nice long stretch of ground cable. Nice and big, works great.

[BobbyFord]

I decided to put stainless steel in the bottom instead of aluminum. POR15, with a topcoat of Rustoleum...




I will make a box type cover for it later. Also got my 1 gauge cable kit in the mail yesterday

[basketcase0302]

Bobby,

Very nice man!

Thanks for the "heads up" on the cables guys.

[FreakysFords]

Nice fab work Bobby. Gonna look even sweeter once you get your cover made.

Frank

[BobbyFord]

Thanks for the comments, guys