Okay, so as some of you know I'm going to be smoothing the engine bay on my car this winter and think that I'll be best served to put the battery in the hatch of the car instead of leaving it under the hood of a nicely smoothed out engine bay.
So I'm been doing a bunch of digging around on the subject and of course because photobucket sucks ass a TON of pictures are now no longer available.
What Ive read so far has people doing it two ways, routing the power wire up to the solenoid up front or putting the solenoid in the rear of the car. The thought process behind putting the solenoid in the rear is that the wire that's hot all the time is then short going from the battery to the solenoid.
I plan on using wire I get from work though which is made for locomotives (I'm thinking 1/0 wire with a 2000v insulation on it) which I would think I'd be fine leaving "hot" all the time going to the solenoid up front. Would I be okay to route this inside the car, or would everyone say the best way is to leave it outside the car?
I know I have to use a sealed battery box that is vented to atmosphere, but other than that I see a million people doing it a bunch of different ways.
I also think I need to put in an on/off switch which I definitely want to hide behind the plate in back, and then if needed at a track or something I can take the plate off.
There has to be some items in the car though that should remain hot at all times, so I'm assuming those just get wired to the hot side of the disconnect switch?
Any issue with electronics with the switch turning on and off?
Finally, what can I do to make sure it's safe like if I get rear ended or something? A fuse or circuit breaker inline in case it shorts out or something like that?
So I'm been doing a bunch of digging around on the subject and of course because photobucket sucks ass a TON of pictures are now no longer available.
What Ive read so far has people doing it two ways, routing the power wire up to the solenoid up front or putting the solenoid in the rear of the car. The thought process behind putting the solenoid in the rear is that the wire that's hot all the time is then short going from the battery to the solenoid.
I plan on using wire I get from work though which is made for locomotives (I'm thinking 1/0 wire with a 2000v insulation on it) which I would think I'd be fine leaving "hot" all the time going to the solenoid up front. Would I be okay to route this inside the car, or would everyone say the best way is to leave it outside the car?
I know I have to use a sealed battery box that is vented to atmosphere, but other than that I see a million people doing it a bunch of different ways.
I also think I need to put in an on/off switch which I definitely want to hide behind the plate in back, and then if needed at a track or something I can take the plate off.
There has to be some items in the car though that should remain hot at all times, so I'm assuming those just get wired to the hot side of the disconnect switch?
Any issue with electronics with the switch turning on and off?
Finally, what can I do to make sure it's safe like if I get rear ended or something? A fuse or circuit breaker inline in case it shorts out or something like that?