Battery relocated to rear?

[Mihnea Cotet]

At 10:59 18/04/2002 -0500, Dave Alarie wrote:
>Howdy.
>
>Anyone relocate the battery to the trunk of a 4k?
>
>Yes?  Where did you route the cables and what gauge is appropriate?  My
>working plan is to run the ground back to the engine compartment rather
>than attach it to the chassis in the rear.
>
>The idea (such as it is) is to avoid introducing any weird electrical
>issues - like a ground loop.  I'm just into an '85 4ksq, about to
>rebuild all four corners of the car and I don't the need the pain of
>tracking down electrical leaks.

You want your ground cable as short as possible because of the wire's
resistance. Too long a cable makes a resistive ground which is NOT GOOD,
especially for the car's main ground.

Just my 0.02,


Mihnea