Thread: Deuce Battery Placement

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....Wayne @ Redneck Street Rods is building me a '32 3 Window & he advised me not to put the battery under the car so I had him put it in the truck like he recommended. He said that sooner or later I'd regret putting it under the car. Like in a rain storm when I had a dead battery as I was crawling around under my car, soaking wet I'd remember what he said! Bill

Whoa! I didn't see that one coming! Ha! I'm sure Wayne knows someone that has experienced that one for him to mention it. Wayne may have been the one soaking wet! I remember one Louisville National where it rained hard enough for a guy to drown changing out a battery under the car.Thanks for the reply.

Wayne and Billlsbird have a good point.

Even so, the battery in my car is seldom touched and the couple of times I did drop it, one was for battery replacement and the other to change cable (terminal) style.

I like it out of the trunk area when a fuel tank or fuel cell is used within.

A small battery - CCA wise - works ok most times, but every now and then the engine can get fussy and require a bit of cranking.

Since I changed from electric pump to manual I find that leaving the roadster sit (Carter 750 cfm carb) for a week or two can take a bit of cranking to get fuel into the bowl.
Not a problem with an electric pump . . . which I'm going back to....

I mounted mine just behind the sat on the passenger side.
It makes it clean and easy to run any cables and wires needed. Also drilled a 1 1/2" hole on top the fram and ran all wire through the frame rail and made it very clean.
You can see pics here
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v2...0street%20rod/

Located mine in the trunk ..in the storage area ....