Trying get some ideas for a nice trunk mounted battery box.......or other location except the firewall.
In my 34 Ford roadster. Quick connector for servicing. An Odessey battery PC 925 in a Samsonite suitcase. I dropped a nut zert in the trunk floor and used that valve cover tee bolt to secure the case so it cannot move. The tee bolt drops through an aluminum bracket that also secures the battery inside the case. Connected and secured...and a couple of travel stickers.
I'm going with a small battery, because the exhaust has always routed under the huge battery box under the p***enger floor. I'm lowering the car significantly so the exhaust needs to move because it hung down pretty far under the frame. So, I found a small bracket for an Odyssey PC680 and I'm hanging it on it's side from the stock battery box cover on my 38 Chevy. So, more room for exhaust, and easy to access by just lifting up on the cover on the p***enger floor.
Whatever you decide to use, make sure you have a vent tube routed outside the trunk, for fumes to escape.
That is the nice thing about these Odessey batteries is that they can mounted just about anywhere. This is under the seat in my PU. And that is another, Odessey (AGM) batteries require no venting. Even in a hospital environment.
For a while my girlfriend and I bought up suitcases, picnic baskets and other "carriers" to hide batteries in, I made a couple to sell. I never pushed the sale to hard. I have quite a few neat boxes!
My pal did this a few yrs back. Yes, the box is real from the Detroit Salt mines. I have a few of these. I get 50 bucks for em at the swap meets.
Mounted the battery behind the p***enger seat and made the cover from s**** sheet metal and exhaust pipe.
I've been in aviation for 50 years. Retired now. Found an all stainless Saft ni-cad battery box in the trash. All the cells were shot and disposed of. I just saw the same box for sale on eBay. Modified mine to use the quick disconnect and installed a group 26 battery in the box with short cables to the connector for the quick connection. It mounts securely and the lid has a vent system. See pics!
I don't get very fancy; but make an angle iron frame for the base, cut the bottom out of a boat battery box, and make a flat abs cover (paper pattern in the pic) held down by the battery hold down studs.
The battery box I built and a picture of it in the trunk on the right, not a very good picture but all I can find .
Some great ideas here. I have never been too fancy with this sort of thing and just considered the function first and foremost. However, I may decide to put the battery in the trunk of my Merc and sure like some of the ideas to camouflage it. The one in the trunk of my Chevelle is as basic as they get and purely functional.
i like to hide my battery under the front fender. bracket on frame to fender/running board. then make a sheild to keep road debris off of it
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