Ross,
Pretty
much as you'd said, I prefer inside the car (mandatory for most forms of
competition) and you must run it inside an insulator, that split plastic stuff
seems to be acceptable. Most ppl run around a 4 gauge single wire from within
the boot through the back seat area and along the tunnel. A neat conversion that
Fergy did in his 1600 was to route the cable through the firewall via the
autotrans selector rod grommet (near steering column) as it comes out very close
to the starter. On a 1600 all the power feeds eg alternator, fusible link etc
come off the starter so there is nothing else to do in the engine bay. Also,
what a lot of ppl do is run a much smaller wire (~6mm) in parallel to the
positive feed as a secondary earth from the engine bay, much the same as the
original 1600 wiring has a secondary earth from the -tve battery cable standard.
Some alternators don't like this earth missing, Bosch in particular. Then you
run the main earth from the battery to a good connection to the body in the
boot. I've seen a lot of variations here, but the support bracket near the wheel
well is a popular choice. An auto electrician can supply a cut-out (sometimes
called a "gang" switch) which isolates the battery positive feed. The thing is
mostly these are also mounted in the boot - bit hard to get to in an emergency I
would have thought, but they pass scrutineering with them there. If you run a
car on the track with a battery mounted in a non-standard position you used to
have an external marking to tell everyone where it was (just in
case).
regards
Terry
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ross Goddard
Sent: Monday, 29 July 2002 5:18 PM
To: Ozdat (E-mail)
Subject: Battery CablesHi List
When you run the battery cable from the boot, where do you run it to. Obviously there is no need to go all th way up to where it used to sit. Can you just runa heavy cable to the starter and then tap off the other wires from that, or is it better to make up a junction block thing on the body on go from there. Is it better to run it inside the body or outside? And what type of fuse to use, a big car audio one in the boot.
Ross G
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