moving battery, jump leads?

[beavy69]

OK wanna move my battery as its a big heavy calcium job (diesel I think). Wanna put it in the rear passenger footwell on the right to **** some weight to the back and help balance L/R.

Question: Can I use jump lead cable to exend the main battery leads without any toruble? As I cant find anywhere that sells proper battery cable for that job cheaply enought by the meter.

:confused:

[General Baxter]

http://www.demon-tweeks.co.uk/products/ProductDetail.asp?cls=ROAD&pcode=A/E1609BLK

[Stuart]

for cable.

www.vehiclewiringproducts.co.uk

top firm

[Dan]

also take into account the more flexibale the wire the better current can flow down it. make sure you use a battery box to fix it into :thumb:

[Adam]

Yeah you can use jump lead cable.

[Mike]

Use a proper light weight motorsport battery as there sllim line as well so can fit under your seat.

But i wanr you, there not cheap!!

[beavy69]

I've just bought a box and straps etc. Does anyone disagree with jump lead cable. I don't see why it wouldn't work but like Dan said, I know flexable is better and jump leads don't tend to be. I'll check out those sites for proper cable. Thanks peeps!

[Mike]

Go for it, jump lead cable. More flexible then normal battery cable found on nova's

[Stoo]

Are you relocating the battery for your hair brained leaf blower turbo??

[beavy69]

lol No like I said for the weight balance as I have stripped allot, especially at the back.

I'm slowly but surely collecting the bits for a proper turbo job. 1.3 block, GTE head and 1.6 T2 turbo kit. So it'll be a 1.4 turbo or thereabouts?

[Stoo]

try mvaux.com for your turbo needs!!

[beavy69]

I have looked at them. Has anyone used them? Are they legit?

[Stoo]

yes very legit as far as a 31 page thread on mig would have you believe!

Ill be uprating my LET to the 350Bhp kit

[beavy69]

Anyone know what amp cable I need?

[Ash]

you could use amp power cable, might work out cheaper i dont know.

A

[beavy69]

whats that? I ment how many amps does the cable need to be e.g. 180amps?

[Mike]

What Amp is the battery? Then theres your answer lol

[Stuart]

Needs to be capable of 300Amps as cold winter cranking will be a bigger pull than youd imagine. But thats Very short term 300amps though

[R1CH]

I've stuck my battery behind the passenger seat, a mate made a tray for it to sit in thats bolted thru the floor, the battery is also vented to the outside thru a small breather that goes thru the floor.
For the cable i got it from Vehicle Wiring Products, just bought the biggest stuff they had !!

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Rich

[Mike]

Sweet that is Rich! :thumb:

[beavy69]

Nice job mate does the vent come off the white tube on the bat (top of pic) and av you mounted the earth to the body of the car under the tray?

cheers,

7im.

[R1CH]

Yeah the vents the white bit sticking out the side of the battery, might be in different places on other batterys ?
Yeah the earth is on one of the bolts that go thru the floor.

Rich

[SRI crazy]

hey u culd use battery leads from a mini or a bmw an shortin the leads if u hav 2? this culd work!

[Stuart]

:mf:

[Phil GTE]

SRI crazy is pointing out that BMWs have their battery's located in the boot. They must have sufficent cable to reach the engine bay (of the required standard), so why not get some of that..............

[Stuart]

because thats likely to cost a fortune from a dealer... an autofactor would simply give you normal battery cable at a fraction of the cost ;)

[Phil GTE]

Wouldn't go near a BMW dealer for that. beavy69 can pick some up from the scrappy - theres bound to be at least one partially stripped BMW to take the cable from.