For those off you that have relocated your battery to the truck. Did you guys just ground the ground cable to the truck area or did you run the ground cable back up front with the Posistive cable? I was thinking off using a jumper to groung in the trunck and running the ground cable up front as well with the pos. cable.

 

I did both. If you notice on your stock battery cable, there are two leads coming from the negative cable. The thicker and longer of the two goes straight to the block. The other is much thinner and shorter and goes to the body right next to the battery. When relocating follow that path. Run a cable back up to the engine compartment and ground it to the block. Then run a smaller gauge from the battery negative post to the body right where you have relocated the battery. The block ground is necessary and the body ground is nice insurance. It's there factory for a reason. Hope this helps.

 

What I did so far was put two isolated 3/8" studs (distribution Block)where the battery used to be and ran the factory battery cables to that. I figured I just run the cables from the battery in the trunk to those isolated studs.

 

Sounds good. Just be sure to run quality cable back to the battery. I ran 0 guage amp wire but welding cable or actual battery cable (4 guage?) would be just fine. Run it inside the car.

 

OK Cool Im going to be using 1 guage cable.

 

OK I just read you ran it inside the car. Did you run it along the passenger side door sill and thorugh the firewall?

 

Yup. Then along the frame rail, avoiding the headers as much as possible and to the distribution block. While you're there look at the main starter cable. Make sure it's in good condition. With the power now having to be pulled from much farther away you'll want the cables to be in good shape to avoid starter wear and a possible fire.