What's the best battery cable?

[Gregersen46]

I want to relocate the battery to the trunk. What would be the best cable for that?

[SRD art]

Go to a welding supply store and see what they have available priced by the foot. You can get much better cable for the same price you'll pay for a lesser quality aftermarket deal. At least that's what I did. I bought 18 feet of 1/0 for $2.50/ft. This is not the same as 1 ga., it's pretty fat stuff.

[Gregersen46]

I was reading something that 4/0 cable was 0.04 drop in voltage

[chuckd71]

If you know what length you want and need it pre-terminaled a boating supply shop might have something useful. Custombatterycables.com (I think) also has a page with info about different types of cable.

[Gregersen46]

Hey srd art. Do you have any problems with your voltage?

[Mingus]

I put an optima yellow top in my trunk a couple of weeks ago. I used 2/0 welding cable (you'd probably be fine with 1/0 but I didn't want to take any chances) and a Ford solenoid in the trunk. Ran a 2/0 to the frame in back and a big braided ground (like off of a semi) from the frame to the block in front. I used a 4ga. to feed everything in the car and for charging. Ran it through a 150 amp resettable breaker by the battery. Makes it nice to kill power to everything when I'm working on the car. It turns over way faster now with the battery in the trunk than it ever did with a Les Schwab XHD battery and the stock 4 ga. battery cables.

[67rally]

I used 1/0 Royal Excelene welding cable. Very nice stuff, you can buy it for $2.48 foot in red or black from wireandsupply.com. http://www.wireandsupply.com/category_s/57.htm

[Gregersen46]

Thanks you everyone for your help

[ehummelman]

Putting the terminals on is super easy, no reason to pay for preterminated ones. You just buy the terminals w/ some solder pellets. Drop the pellet in, heat it with a torch until it melts, and push the wire in, voila!

[67rally]

Putting the terminals on is super easy, no reason to pay for preterminated ones. You just buy the terminals w/ some solder pellets. Drop the pellet in, heat it with a torch until it melts, and push the wire in, voila!

Yep, the pellets are great. I must have made 7 or 8 cables when I relocated my battery and installed my amps in the trunk. Super easy.

[BulldawgMusclecars]

I typically use welding cable...its more flexible than battery cable, so its easier to route (needs to be supported better, though). I put the ends on with a propane torch, using some lead bars that my grandfather used to make bullets from. Old wheels weights work well, too!

[jpdeuce]

QuickCar makes excellent automotive battery cables. Very fine stranded and flexible.

[scottymonte]

QuickCar makes excellent automotive battery cables. Very fine stranded and flexible.

The QuickCar cable is what I ordered from MCB. It is really high quality stuff. I did a lot of research and decided on the QuickCar, glad I did.
And thanks to MCB for the great service and pricing.

Scott

[JEFFTATE]

Lane Automotive has some good battery cable / cable kits ..
That's where I bought the cable to relocate my battery ..
The sell that really flexible , high strand count cable ..

http://www.laneautomotive.com/site/?ct=121#