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Battery Relocation /w Diagram

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RC_slow_dsm

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Oct 11, 2007
Rapid City, South_Dakota
Just to make sure I am doing this right, I drew a couple diagrams for battery relocation to the trunk. I have a few questions.

1. Where do you ground out the engine, since the battery is in the trunk? Do you run a ground wire to the battery or can you just run a wire to the frame?
2. Do I run the fuse box wire and the starter wire separately to the circuit breaker in the trunk as a parallel? Is it better to join the starter wire with the fuse box wire in the engine bay?

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Both power wires run in parallel above.

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Wires conjoined in the engine bay, one wire running to the circuit breaker above.


Also, for a Safety Cutoff Switch, Is it just wired in between the circuit breaker and the battery, or is it run off of the ground wire for the battery?

Thanks in advance. :dsm:
 
Yea the second diagram is how we have our setup and i think is switch is in between the battery and the CB but im not sure.
 
How many feet of the each cable was used?
I ordered 18' of power and 3' of ground. Is that enough?
So, for the 2nd diagram, a junction block of some sort is used, right?
And where is that ground near the engine coming from?
Ground from the starter? Or the original from the battery?
 
well i just relocated my battery in the trunk cause i did a wire tuck on my car so i got 1 huge speaker wire from the fuse box and raned it straight to the battery and then the ground o raned it to the chassis bolt and thats it hahaha easy and this is how it looks now LOL
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damn i barely found this out right now is my engine tilted to the drivers side WTF
 
I am doing a wire tuck as well and I got my Fuse box in the fender. I am running my distribution block right there and just shortening all the wires that would normally go to the battery so nothing sags. I am running 4 gauge to the rear and having a moroso switch mounted next to licence plate switching the postive(NHRA rules). I also have a 100A fuse. I figure that should be about right with a 75ish amp alt.
 
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