Thread: Where is your Battery Mounted?

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I have a glass 32 Ford. Right now the interior is not done, just seats in the car. I have the battery in the trunk/passenger side towards the interior side of the car. Here is a picture.
http://s104.photobucket.com/albums/m...nterior007.jpg

Where are most of you mounting your battery? I know that a lot of people seem to mount them in the trunk (center or passenger side) but also wanted to know if anyone mounts them on the inside of the car, behind the passenger seat?

Where seems to be the most common and or best place to mount the battery?

Thanks,

If you go inside the passenger compartment, do not use a lead/acid battery (wet cell battery). Fumes are produced during charging that are not only not cool to breathe, but are explosive as well. Even if you put one in the trunk encase it in a box that is vented outside the car.

You CAN mount a drycell battery like an Optima or Odyssey inside as they do not have this problem.

Don

Put a bulkhead behind the seats and build a box for it right where ya got it.

That's a good place that you have

This photo is a Summit battery box with a Speedway Optima hold down bracket inside:



This is where mine is mounted:



And a poor photo during the early part of my wiring:



I have the starter relay on the fender side, the master on/off switch on the front side and an oops on the left side (I cut the ground wire too short but am using a commercial mounting post for the correction).

Here is a better picture of my trunk and why I asked the original question. As you can see in the picture. My trunk floor is NOT flat...Over the rearend/wheel area it humps up, so about the only place to sit the battery so that it sits flat....is infront (toward the front of the car.) This puts my battery half in the trunk area and half in the interior area.

In the picture below, you can see the grey partition bar (see upper and center of the picture) as it slants at an angle to the floor opposed to running straight up/down vertical. Where my battery sits right now in the picture DOES sit FLAT, but...it is in the middle of the slanted bar I am talking about which would put it half in the interior and half in the trunk.........

I assume the interior guy can just work around it? I just want to mount it one time and not have to move it for interior work.

My battery box is mounted on the frame, passenger side, underneath the rear seating area about 12 inches in front of the right rear tire. I have no trunk nor anyplace under the hood for one. Good location except when you need to replace it. Then you better have a lift to get to it.

Mine is mounted under my bench seat which can be lifted up for any maintence on it.

I thought I had a pic of the batt mounting we fabbed for the glass 32 3 window I did, but apparently I've either lost them or didn't take any. But here is the finished trunk area. The battery is mounted on the passenger side just in front of the finished panel you can see. The floor in mine was even more convoluted than yours because of a raised rear crossmember (to lower the car). The way we dealt with that was to make MDF panels that formed the "square" area you see here. In the process a well was formed to mount the battery, it was a 925 version of the Oddyssey battery, very compact yet powerful. The passenger side also had a panel installed so the battery ended up hidden in a "no mans land" between the passenger compartment and the trunk compartment along with storage space for stuff like cleaning supplies, a few tools, whatever. The panel you see is held in place with velcro to allow access.

Bucs012,I have the battery in the 34 in the exact spot as yours.A slight angle is ok ,as the batt is not always level as you drive up and down hills on the road.You can measure the difference front to back of the batt and fabricate a frame to make it level,then mount your box on top of the frame.The void between the seats and trunk is really a good spot to put a lot of add on things like batt ,fuse panel,stereo antenna,etc.JMO

My panel is velcro on top and mounting studs w/brackets from the steel frame on the bottom (See Gallery)to carry the weight of the panel.

Buc's, The guy who built my car put my Optima battery in the passenger compartment centered right behind the seat {'32 Ford 3 win.}. I have since moved it to the trunk. My front seat hit the battery so the seat wouldn't go all the way back. So I moved it with a battery box just like IC2 showed in his pic's..... Bill

Originally Posted by Don Dalton

Bucs012,I have the battery in the 34 in the exact spot as yours.A slight angle is ok ,as the batt is not always level as you drive up and down hills on the road.You can measure the difference front to back of the batt and fabricate a frame to make it level,then mount your box on top of the frame.The void between the seats and trunk is really a good spot to put a lot of add on things like batt ,fuse panel,stereo antenna,etc.JMO

My panel is velcro on top and mounting studs w/brackets from the steel frame on the bottom (See Gallery)to carry the weight of the panel.

Ha, ya I need to make sure I put a BAT in there too! Heads will

Thanks for all the feedback, guys!