Battery Relocation, ...any write ups? Options

[yeahmag]

Long, long time no post... How is everyone?

I've made some progress on the car and recently removed the rusty battery tray and stand with the intention of relocating the battery to the front. I know I've seen write ups on this, but can't for the life of me find any of them.

I've purchased an affordable kit from Summit so I have the main parts. I'm just hung up on what the correct thing to do with the original mess of wires that attach to the positive side of the battery in the engine compartment.

Thanks.

-Aaron

[jhadler]

Well, keep in mind that while you will be distrubuting the weight of the battery to the front, you will also be adding the weight of the cables and such to the car. And heavy gauge wire isn't light.

Also, you can effect the weight distribution of the car simply by using a smaller battery. Say you went with a smaller Odyssey battery. You'd be knocking 20 lbs off the rear weight bias of the car right off the bat. That's 1% of the total weight of the car. Doesn't sound like much, but that's not a meaningless change on a 914. For a competition car, it's a big deal. And, they're sealed batteries, so no leaking acid that is so often the cause of the demise of the battery tray to begin with. And, you can mount them in any orientation too.

Odyssey Batteries

Now, for a daily driver, you may not want to run a super tiny battery. But for a daily driver, why such an interest in making a subtle change to the weight distribution? I don't know your interest here. DD, or Race?

-Josh2