Ok, so I just got my Odyssey PC680MJT battery and mounting bracket in, now my Q is where the hell should a i mount it. I saw a pic of a 4th gen. who had it mounting where the battery support goes near the tranny, but our engine bay is not smooth there to mount it, I don't want to move it out of engine bay, but i want to make it more discret, any ideas/pics???

 

trunk.

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i want to keep it in the engine bay

 

Lie it in the existing battery tray. We-todd is down or I would link a pic.

Pirate

 

yeah i guess, but i wanted to hide it away more, link a pic when you get the chance, thanks

 

You can easily mount it by the tranny, just under where the stock battery tray would be.

Sorry it's a sucky picture:


There are a couple of spacers behind the side mount for the tray.

I'd be interested in selling the tray cheap. It's a modified stock battery tray with a side plate welded to it. It's not exactly pretty, but it's functional. I used it during my last track event. You'd have to fab a better tie down, and that's about it.

Oh sorry, I just noticed you have a 680, this is for a 545.

 

You could use this to mount it in the spot 117 said.

http://store.summitracing.com/...w=sku

 

I was just thinking about this and boom.

What is the smallest battery that they have at Autozone?
I mean, Civic batteries are smaller than Ludes. Maybe I should buy one for like $40 bucks and make a little room for the intake.

$80 bucks for the Odessey.

What do you guys think?

OkAY: update: I answered my own question.
This is a comparison of a CRX battery Vs. Odessey P series.

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lat time i checked, batteries were all the same size unless you went with these aftermarket ones.

 

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the Odyssey battery is an aftermarket unit, and smaller than stock.

 

Yes, I see that now.
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NOW WHERE IS A GOOD PLACE TO GET IT FOR DIRT CHEAP?????

 

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civic batteries are much smaller than our lude ones...

 

ah, your talking about the ones that go where our fuse box is?

 

On a 5Gen, that would have to be a pretty darn small battery to fit where the fuse box is located!!

The PC545 is very, very small compared to the stock battery, and only weighs 12 lbs (IIRC)!

 

no, im saying that using the one from the civic that has their battery where OUR fuse box is located

 

serach for DarkBB4's pictures...

his is in the bay and hidden!

 

i hvae that bracket form summit for the 680, but i didn't see how it would stay there, the engine bay is not smooth there, unless i get some long *** hell screws

 

haha

 

That has to be one of the best pictures I've ever seen. I actually saved that to my desktop...completely re-defining "Whale *****". Looks good...i want this battery.

 

Wow...nice illustration darkbb4...and all this time I thought you drilled holes into the chassis.

 

My sister has a new civic and the battery in it is about half the size of the battery in my prelude. Not 100% sure just eye-balled it

 

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Nope, to be honest, I was as creative as possible... Figured it out w/o any inspiration and ever since i have had NO issues with this install at all.

I can remove the battery in less than 5 minutes w/ a 10mm crescent wrench and an allen wrench (to remove terminals)

 

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Nope, to be honest, I was as creative as possible... Figured it out w/o any inspiration and ever since i have had NO issues with this install at all.

I can remove the battery in less than 5 minutes w/ a 10mm crescent wrench and an allen wrench (to remove terminals)</TD></TR></TABLE>

In all honesty that is a hell of a lot better than untieing a battery box in the trunk, opening it, and removing the damn screws and bolts to remove the wires and lifting a 35 pound battery from a weird position in the dark corner of a trunk.

If I could do it over I would keep it in the engine bay, and just buy a smaller battery.

 

thanks, darkbb4, best help so far.

 

no problem.. ill be adding a write up on my website today so u might want to check it out if u have questions

evbecks.com

(diy section)