battery relocation

i am sure this has been covered but i couldn't find it in the old posts.
 i want to relocate my battery into the boot, but i want to keep it easy to reverse  back to standard. would i be able to do it this way and what size cable is recomended ?
           this is what i thought…… battery in the boot, neg wire connected to the  rear bumper bolt into chassis  .  run a positive wire from the boot to the existing positive terminal in the engine bay and connect using some sort of junction box , and then connect the neg wire in the engine bay onto the front chassis leg.
  any views on this ?  and recomendations of parts? cable size ect cheers jim.

if you get the cable from a late bmw or merc its the same diameter as the live pin on your batteryso it fits stright inside live socket that you put on the battery now just isolate it and earth the battery in the boot via the bumber iron

Cheers ben,,, scrap yard for me then next week.  hunting..

I ran a negative and a positive from the boot to the bay with new wire and terminals. cost me ?50 quid so if you can get the wire cheaper then you've done well.
I connected all the lives to the stater motor live, don't know weather i was right to do all this though as i'm having an electrical nightmare with clocks and stuff now. But then again I did all of this because of a 18t conversion so your biting off alot less than me.

hoping it should work, forgot all my physics, voltage drop ect. but hoping still to get 12v where it's needed.

the bmw lead i put in your old car funnily enough was ?10 from the scrappy lol

that's what i will go with,
 rpatten have a word with ben , i'm sure he will put you right.
 ben have you heard anything of my old car lately ?

mk1jim said

that's what i will go with,
 rpatten have a word with ben , i'm sure he will put you right.
 ben have you heard anything of my old car lately ?

doing lots of miles had a call before xmas to say he was having a few lack of gears issues think the cables had moved

apart from that i think its getting abused like it should :mrgreen:

good to hear he's happy with it.

rpatten said

I ran a negative and a positive from the boot to the bay with new wire and terminals. cost me ?50 quid so if you can get the wire cheaper then you've done well.
I connected all the lives to the stater motor live, don't know weather i was right to do all this though as i'm having an electrical nightmare with clocks and stuff now. But then again I did all of this because of a 18t conversion so your biting off alot less than me.

did it when i fitted the TT lump to mk1jims old car but i didnt go straightto the battery

i left the original battery live lead under the bay and bolted the new cable into it then isolated it also ran a extra earth from back to front