Hello Thomas, I always thought that this legislation was kind of stupid, then they showed me an old picture at my mothers work (LPG supplier) of a car where the bloke had a cylinder filled back in the days before rigorous testing, it had a small leak and as he was driving out he got to the gate, braked, and some dodgy wires leading to the brake lights of this old kingswood ignited the gas mixture. The boot lid wasnt on the car in the pic, but all windows were completely gone and the door tops were bent out at about 45 degrees from the body.
Friday, February 08, 2002, 12:02:10 PM, you wrote: RTMR> That's a legal setup for a road registered car Tony. You have to vent the RTMR> battery enclosure to the outside of the car incase hydrogen builds up inside RTMR> the boot or something. If you have a sealed battery like an Odyssey or RTMR> something then you don't need to bother. RTMR> - Tom RTMR> -----Original Message----- RTMR> From: Tony Bryant [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] RTMR> Sent: Friday, 8 February 2002 10:59 AM RTMR> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RTMR> Subject: Re: LEGALITIES OF BATTERY IN BOOT RTMR> On Fri, 08 Feb 2002 13:03, you wrote: >> Listers, >> I found out that batteries in the boot need to be sealed and vented, so >> basically a lid, and a hole in the bottom through the battery box and boot >> to allow any fumes escape via a hose of something. RTMR> My XJ-S has the battery in the boot - as stock. Its only got a cosmetic RTMR> flimsy plastic cover, and a clip on plastic vent cover (10" x 2" x 1"), which RTMR> has a hose attached that runs outside the car. RTMR> Is this not a legal setup in oz? If not there must alot a illegal Jags running RTMR> around. RTMR> Or are you talking about legality for racing? -- Best regards, Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --membersozdat------------------------------------------------------- OZDAT Mailing List Please Note:- Send (un)subscribe requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send submissions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] No unauthorised redistribution of this email http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/index.htm http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/listindex.html http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------
