I'm about to do a battery relocation and having removed the battery I've had a look at the battery tray to see how to remove it and clean up the inner wing. I can see a number of spot welds that I'll need to remove, but it also looks like it might be bonded on.

Anyone know whether it'll pull straight off if I drill out the spot welds or would I be better getting the dremel out and cutting it off

Cheers

Jon

 

Will pull straight out mate after drilling the welds. I've recently done it. The body work is only primed underneath

 

This is exactly what I am doing in the next month or so, relocate the battrey to boot and remove the battery stand... I saw that this is what prodriver done on his project thread and it dose look much better
Jon did u pick up a kit for the relocation, just I have been looking into it and struggled to find a circuit breaker & decent fused power distribution block where did u manage to get yours ?
I can see all the cables etc on eBay, am I right in thinking its just heavy duty amp power cable.

 

For the cable run you need either 0 or 4 AWG cable.

I ended up buying a 4AWG amp wiring kit as it was cheaper than buying seperate cable, fuses, CBs etc - it doesn't need a CB by te battery, use a single in line fuse instead - that's what I'm doing. I picked up terminals, distribution blocks, wiring kit etc for about £45 all in from eBay and Amazon. I'll put some more detail in my project thread when it warms up again. The only thing I am missing is a 4 AWG butt splice (not as crude as it sounds)

 

Cheers mate, I'm going to clean up the inner wings anyway so not worried about them only being primed - black or white hammerite

 

That's exactly what I used. Gave it a good coat of black hammerite before putting the swirl pot system in

 

I've got a 'kin huge air filter to replace the ABS and a catch can to replace the battery

 

dont forget to take pics of the battery relocation and wiring, im interested too see how to do this.

 

Sound cool

I and a few others have done this in the project section

 

thanks, ill have a look, im trying to make a bit of room to mount my catch can as its a pain to empty where it is now

 

You guys could just get rid of your air pump, makes enough room for a catch can etc

 

air pump??

 

Cold air pump. It's a black plast cylinder'ish part near the left strut. It's only there for the American market for their emissions. It will need a map tweak, Duncan has to imput a code. It saves a bit of weight and load of space. I'll find a pic

 

im not sure i have one, a picture would be great.

 

And these can be removed



I sold these to a guy in Denmark for over £250. Apparently they're used in lagacy's too.

 

Air pump is only on the wrx 2.5's i believe

 

ahhh the tgv pump??

mines a 2.0 sti

 

sorry I thought they were on all newages

 

Pics on how to remove battery tray would be great !!

 

Watch this thread for details - just finished fitting leather recaros to an ST220 and my hands are just about allive enough to work the ratchet - too cold to do anything electrical

https://www.scoobynet.com/projects-4...3-re-work.html

 

Page 4 shows some of the wiring and page 5 shows removing battery tray

https://www.scoobynet.com/919798-my-...it-more-4.html

Removing the tray can take a while but is simple. Just drill the spot welds and rip out. The hawkeye fuse box is bolted to the tray which will need undoing. Not sure about other newages.

I got all my wiring and parts from:

http://www.vehicle-wiring-products.e...e/homepage.php

 

I couldn't find one of those pseudo battery terminal boxes so I ended up with a fused distibution block

 

Must admit, their site is hard to use, their catalogue is better. You could always call them, they're pretty easy to chat too.

 

http://www.vehicle-wiring-products.e...tconn.php#jbox

At the bottom of the page

 

I've used them for loads of stuff in the past, just didn't see them this time, until I looked again 20-minutes ago I have a couple of fused relays fitted so I can use the fused distribution I have to replace the inline fuses so it worked out well in the end

 

One thing I would recomend is: put some extra protection around the power wire when going though/under the dash and under the back seats. There's a few sharp edges it could catch on