trunk mounted battery.....

[DarkoNova]

Just want to say that the "live power wire" isn't as big a deal as people make it out to be. I had an 88 BMW that came with the battery in the trunk from the factory, and that's exactly what they did. The positive cable ran straight from the battery, through the door sill, through the firewall, up to a junction block on the firewall. The starter then had a short length of cable running straight to that junction block. If tested with a multimeter, you got 12 volts at the junction block, ignition off.

If an OEM does it, I wouldn't really worry about it.

The cable was also bolted down with little insulated clips, and even had corrugated tubing on it when it went around corners. Also had a nice thick grommet where it went through the firewall.



I actually took the entire setup out of my BMW and was going to use it in my Nova, but the cable is about a foot too short. I'm just going to order a longer cable and do the exact same thing on my car, though.