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I'm sure lots of people have done this but I can't find anything by searching. I'm keen to see where and how people have mounted their batteries as that would save me a lot of time. Pics would be greatly appreciated. I'd particularly like to see the set up in a racecar (not sure if CAMS allows it) as that'll have been scrutineered and give me a good idea of what I need to do to stop the battery flying through the back seat. Also race people can you tell me where you got your relocation kits from please?

Not sure if I'll use a dry cell or standard battery.

Cheers and thanks

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Have a good think about what your trying to achieve, snot too hard. People use grounding kits to avoid different qualitative earths in a engine bay... so you reckon earthing the battery at the rear c

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cams do allow it, but I'm not sure I've ever seen a wet cell battery inside a car. we are about to relocate one for a 32 and are just going to rewire it.

edit, and of course mount it nice and solid.

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I think its a great idea..to the guy who said we do it...Any chance of you posting up some pics ? I want to see just how the end product looks..Good idea pulling some weight from the front of the car and moving it to the rear....

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sorry mate no pics at the moment

you cant see the wiring and the battery box is just a black box in the corner of the boot

When you say corner, is it mounted hard up against the back of the back seat generally in the left corner ? As thats the location i had in mind

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cams do allow it, but I'm not sure I've ever seen a wet cell battery inside a car. we are about to relocate one for a 32 and are just going to rewire it.

edit, and of course mount it nice and solid.

Hi Duncan

Do you mean inside as in 'inside the cabin'? I'm talking about relocating to the boot as in R33 and R34 location. My preference is to go for dry cell. I'll be interested to see where you put it, the wiring etc is easy it's just the choice of location and method of mounting that I'm keen to see.

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yeah in the cabin. remember the boot is not sealed from the car so a scruitineer will consider it inside the cabin either way. we were going to use a battery box to hold it just bolted down - doesn't have to be pretty in the race car.

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presentation is always important though even in a race car.

Id just use the normal battery box and vent it to the outside of the car

For mountings I normally buy a universal battery clamp from repco or super crap and drill holes through the box into the floor to put the hooks through. Works fine.

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presentation is always important though even in a race car.

Id just use the normal battery box and vent it to the outside of the car

For mountings I normally buy a universal battery clamp from repco or super crap and drill holes through the box into the floor to put the hooks through. Works fine.

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Not complicated. B.box (i like Moroso's ANDA cert'd), some 0 Guage, distro blocks, carefull planning, proper rubber bungs and rust preventative on chassis holes cut.

Done.

Benefit in a GTR is weight moving from front driver side, to rear pass side.

Not hard.

PS: I hate despise those $20 black strap down ones. Looks like recycled shoe lace ends.

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presentation is always important though even in a race car.

Id just use the normal battery box and vent it to the outside of the car

For mountings I normally buy a universal battery clamp from repco or super crap and drill holes through the box into the floor to put the hooks through. Works fine.

I'd like to use something more solid than the floor, even if it meant making a dedicated shelf like in the R33 mounted on two hard points.

I can understand why race cars have boxes mandated, and why it makes sense to have a vent. But the R33 has no box and therefore no vent, or an infinite one depending how you look at it. Mounting aside, I guess I have to talk to the nice people at the NSW RTA about the requirements for a streeter.

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I made this setup a few months ago. Cheers to wrxhoon for the sealed battery, and femno for the surge tank :/

Its about 98% done

Thanks for the pic, that's exactly what I had in mind. Can I ask how you secured the plate / base to the floor and if there's anything ie reo on the other side?

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Ah Mick nice work mate! turned out beautifully!

Ive been thinking about doing the battery shift too, just need to find the time!

One other question - and sorry to hijack but its probly a good question - whats the go up front?

ie do you use some kind of rubberised fixing point for the +? so you can run your other wiring from it? like fans and amps and fuel pumps etc?

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