I am planning on relocating my battery to the spare tire well.

What is the current draw to the starter under load?

I have looked up 2 awg on charts and it looks to be rated at 181 amps.

I have seen 150A and 200A fuses availble for sound systems.

My question is it possible to fuse the positive 2 ga wire from the battery to the starter.

My concern with the battery relocation is if the positive burns/wears thru, I might loose my car to fire.


-- Tom

 

Yes, and highly recommended!

 

im absolutely estatic that theres someone on this board THINKING enough to do that.



rather then add 15lbs of battery cable, and having to deal with voltage drop, ect.... my reccomendation would be to keep the stock location, and swap in a sealed dry cell battery (like the dynabatt, but a cheaper, more reasonably priced one)

they are VERY lightweight. and you can swap back to stock for the street if you want to.

 

I pride myself in thinking out solutions before jumping into things, that what makes this board so usefull!

I want/need to move my battery to the back because of my plans for alcohol injection and lack of a good spot due to the room consumed my the intercooling piping.

I believe that I will go with a 200 amp fuse because on the site that I got the information from they said that they used a Maximum Amps for Chassis Wiring as a conservative rating. If the wire were to ground out I'm sure that it would pull much more than 200 amps.

For those that are interested here is the link
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just remember, you need to fuse it twice.

once by the battery, so if the cable shorts, the battery is disconnected...

the other, smaller one, by the alternator, since if the motors running when it shorts out, the alt would keep power on the wire........

 

Thanks for the heads up on the alternator!

--Tom