Battery in the Trunk

I was watching a show on Spike Tv and one of the projects they had on was mounting the battery in the trunk. Has anyone tried this and is so what do you think.

Its a great relocation. Better weight distribution for launching and more room under the hood. They sell kits in Summit.

I'll let you know how it goes when I do it in my coupe, I should be doing it with in the next couple weeks.

I've done it in my '69. Its easy. Considering the size of my battery, it shifted a lot of weight back, which should help launches. I used the Summit kit, then went to my local autoparts store and stuffed the biggest battery I could fit in it. That way i didnt have to use any of the crappy brackets and stuff that comes with the box!

I'll let you know how it goes when I do it in my coupe, I should be doing it with in the next couple weeks.

Yeah HiFlow, definitely let me know how it goes. I'm interested in doing that myself. I was also thinking about doing the 3G swap during the process. Are you using the summit kit too?

I've done 2 of them for 4.6 cars while installing the Vortech kit with the liquid aftercooler so the battery has to be moved. Both times I used Taylor's kit. It runs about $100 bucks but comes with everything and a very nice billet battery box unlike the plastic one in the Summit kit.

Install it's not very hard just a tad time consuming but nothing really troublesome. Advantages are weight distribtuion but nothing your drastically going to notice until you are at a higher level in drag racing or autoX. Plus note it helps unclutter the engine compartment which is nice.

yes, getting hte battery out of the engine bay is a big plus... made room for my turbos! :)