extending battery wires to put batt in rear

[pimpedout97x]

i need to put my starter batt behind my seats (in front of the wall)

to do this, should i just chop off the battery terminal ring things on the end of the stock pos and neg wires, and extend to the rear, and then put new rings on them and re attach to the batt?

how would i go about extending it? what size should i use? should i use a fuse block on both to extend it, and it would be fused as well....?

VJ

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[Calikid 5,000+ posts]

yes, 1/0

 

[NoLimit 10+ year member]

could get a fused dblock

or just sauder the 2 wires together and add lots of electrical tape

one is obviously cheaper

 

[pimpedout97x]

when i extend them, do the power and grounds need to be fused? if so, how big of a fuse?

would it be better to use 2 inline fuse holders to connect the wire together, or 2 distro blocks?

 

[NoLimit 10+ year member]

Probably fuse holders.

What kinda wire is it? I think 1/0awg is upper 250/300

4awg is 100-150? Depends on the strand count as well.

 

[pimpedout97x]

well the stock wires running to the battery is like 8ga maybe, or 4.

from there im gonna run 1/0 to extend it to the back. i think.....

its welding wire

 

[NoLimit 10+ year member]

Might be better off w/ a distro block then, but I dont know how pratical it is to go from 8awg to 1/0.

Might be better if you just re ran the whole thing //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

 

[pimpedout97x]

It'll be hard as hell to re run all those new wires...lol

 

[kizzo 10+ year member]

just use 4ga then. unless i read something wrong, youre simply moving the battery under your hood to the back. the oem wires that are going on to your battery need to be extended to the back. why not just slap on a distro and run 4awg wire to the back? how many 8awg wires are going on to the positive terminal?

according to your sig you have plenty of battery power dedicated to your amps so i dont see why you would need 1/0 to run some little oem cables a little father back.

some one correct me if im wrong here please