Trunk mount Batteries
 

There are a lot of ways to go about this, but here's what I came up with awhile ago (like 3 years). I wanted something 'sleeper', so this fits completely under the spare cover (spare doesn't fit over the Baers, so it went) in a custom box that I built out of MDF. This is sealed and vented, but not NHRA legal due to the switch being on the inside. The battery is mounted using the original tray that has been modified. This is a photo taken before the switch was added:

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e3...0259Custom.jpg

This is the way the box looked prior to painting with spray on bedliner:

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e3...3/DSC00193.jpg

Dude this is awesome, i could mount my stereo battery like this when i finish my system. How did you bolt everything down? And what is that trim around the battery?

Now how cool is that! Great job :nice:

The box itself is glued in with adhesive caulk. The battery tray is bolted through the bottom of the spare well. The trim is a piece of stainless cut from a sheet and polished, holding down a piece of plexiglas.

There's some serious skill there matching the box structure up to the extremely irregular trunk well. Great job!

Your definitely a man of many skills, this looks absolutely amazing but I would expect no less!

You my friend are a skilled artist. I could not even dream of doing that.

Very nice work...good job!

Don't have any pics but our right-lower rear bumper kill switch is being moved to the center faux gas cap area. Not sure how it will look and will still need the on/off markings.

I know there is a guy down here that cut a small peice off of his licence plate and fit his switch there and just wrote ON and OFF on his license plate next to the switch but i do not know if that qualifies to be NHRA legal or not.

As long as the switch is accessable from outside the car, it's good. I suck at the track (and am not that interested in getting better) so it wasn't a big deal for me. I prefer corners!

very nicely done! Here's a pic of my two XS POWER batteries mounted in the trunk.
http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s...y/DSC01504.jpg

Thanks for the props! The woodwork on this was actually fairly simple compared to some of my other projects. This is the dash and overhead I put together for my Turbo 2.3 Ranger several years back.

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e3...d_and_Dash.jpg

Beautiful job. How do you connect the longer cables to the original cable ends under the hood? Or do you completely replace the full cables? Any pics of under the hood?

Great job looks killer and the gauge cluster pure custom! :nice:

Jed

The negative is grounded in the trunk, the positive is a new cable going all the way to the front. I connected them at the jumper posts in the box. Check my 'Different Rewire Perspective' thread to see under the hood.