Battery in the Trunk

[eillob]

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.

[351wStang]

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

[HiFlow5 0]

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.

[duplox]

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!

[stang_racer20]

Originally Posted by HiFlow5 0

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?

[GTStang]

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.

[duplox]

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