Who's done it? I moved the battery to the trunk and ran the 0 ga. wire to the back too. Im unsure if i need a battery box or not.. I hear that the battery expels gases so im unsure if that is a hazard or not.

If you've relocated your battery and used a battery box, where did u get it?

 

you could relocate to the trunk...or you could always do this

https://honda-tech.com/zerothread/1829976

 

You should be able to find a box at your normal auto shop. If not try Battery World, they have a large range of sizes. Another option is to go to a Marine Shop, they usually supply Battery Boxes, obviously to protect them from water and salt etc. Goodluck.

 

I have a box from Moroso that I am pleased with

 

i've seen the moroso battery box, It's too much for my budget. was hoping to get something a bit more reasonable.

P.S. if u relocated ur battery, what did u guys do w/ the + terminal in the bay? ill post pix of what i did. :D

the odyssey battery mod looks sweet! It's just that w/ the weather here in houston im afraid that i may get caught up in a flood and Ill short the whole car. :/

 

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What do you mean postive terminal in the bay?

Here's where I put mine...Odesseys are pretty versatile



I see no reason to worry about vapors or anything with a sealed battery....could be wrong though.

 

What i meant when i referred to the postive terminal, I was actually talking about the wires that come from the starter and the fuse box.

I can see what u did w/ the wire from the fuse box hawke Im assuming the wire from the starter went the same direction too?
that's pretty awesome there hawke! How will u get to the fuse box or get a jump start when u need too tho? remove the carpet?

Ill post pix of what i did later today.

 

I had my battery mounted in the trunk for a while. Had the positive off the battery run into the engine bay into a distribution block and had 2 wires run off of that into the starter and fuse box..

Hawkze's Prelude is completely gutted, so the battery is easily accessible for him.

 

here where my batter/starter/fuse box wires are.



this is the route i chose.



saikou what specific type of block did u use?

 

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I did it
https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=680240

 

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It was just a 0-2 to 4-8 gauge distribution block I bought at Best Buy, if I remember correctly. Had 2 gauge wire ran from the positive on the battery to the distribution block mounted on my firewall, then I had two 4 gauge wires branched off from it into the fuse box and to the starter.

 

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that's pretty awesome there hawke! How will u get to the fuse box or get a jump start when u need too tho? remove the carpet?
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Yeah, the starter power wire mounts directly to the battery positive along with the fuse box wire.

I can easily jump the car from the engine bay. I put the positive cable on the starter connection and I have a negative battery terminal mounted to a spot on the frame behind the shock tower.

 

on my car i pulled the dash fuse box out and there's a perfect hole to pull the wire through behind that, and then ran that under the carpet to the back. also, important info: a charging battery produces hydrogen gas! very explosive. i'm not sure if a sealed batter releases its gases. seems like the pressure would build.

 

sealed battery releases no gases. thats why there so nice. like optima etc..

 

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a little more elaboration plz? i have a regular battery in my trunk atm. should i ditch it and get a different type? Is optima the only dry cell battery on the market? It's all I ever hear about ppl talking when dry cell batteries are talked about..

BTW how did u guys secure ur Resevoir tank? i cut my tray in half and used the portion that has the slider for it. Anyone else came up w/ an idea?


Modified by 4G92 at 8:04 AM 11/12/2007

 

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That's what I did at first, but eventually I bought an aftermarket billet overflow tank and it mounts directly to the radiator.

 

Curious to see what DarkBB4 did as far as securing his overflow tank... Very clean.

 

i guess ill go w/ the half tray to hold my tank. When i see and aftermarket tank i like ill go w/ that. Hawke does yours happen to be the apex-i Gt reservoir tank

 

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It's a universal billet hot-rod tank from Summit

Older pic:

 

well after my odyssey battery died (for unknown reasons), i relocated to the trunk and i've had problems w/ grounding ever since. (I have to add a ground from the battery - in trunk, to the Transmission Ground ASAP!)

I decided to relocate my overflow in front of my radiator as shown...

 

just get the kit from summit for like $89 and call it a day thats what i did

 

I just bought a box at pep boyz and used the leftover sub wiring from the last owner of my car.

Ballin

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by DarkBB4 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">well after my odyssey battery died (for unknown reasons), i relocated to the trunk and i've had problems w/ grounding ever since. (I have to add a ground from the battery - in trunk, to the Transmission Ground ASAP!)

I decided to relocate my overflow in front of my radiator as shown...




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nice bay

 

ty, NOT to threadjack, but if anyone has any (enough from engine bay to trunk, apx 10 ft?) 0/2/4 gauge wiring.. please shoot me a pm!

 

darkbb4, when having grounding issues after u moved ur battery to the trunk, did u ground ur tranny at that time??

i grounded the tranny to the chasis then the battery in the trunk to a strut bolt. no problems yet