DirtDog
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How to replace and/or move battery to trunk in a Grand Prix GXP
So for starters…follow these steps in the below link to remove the batter and replace it if that all you want to do. If you want to move the battery to the trunk as I did continue reading and looking at the pictures for the how to.
http://www.gpona.com/forums/gxp-are...the-battery-in-your-gxp-with-pics-t26509.html
Now for moving the battery to the trunk (means you will never have to do all that again to replace the battery or anything)
Your shopping car needs to include the following
20feet of zero or 2 gauge wire
Ring terminal connectors for whatever gauge wire you got. I think 4 will be enough.
Ring terminals for 4 gauge wire. 2 but I would have a 3[SUP]rd[/SUP] just to have a spare
1.5 feet of ground wire
Battery – I got an optima red top Group size 34/78 battery
Specs – 800 cold cranking amps; 1000 cranking amps; 41 pounds; and a 100min reserve capacity
Battery terminals
Sand Paper
Power Distribution Post (I made one which I will show on down so you can see. Mainly I didn’t want to wait till after Christmas so I just made one)
Solder if you want. But you could use a hammer instead. I soldered and hammered mine.
http://www.iem-services.co.uk/asps/uploads/big/977-1.jpg
So for starters…….I thought in order to remove the fuse box you had to take all the fuses out…..and I did. But luckily I had this to go off of because I was smart enough to take a picture first
Picture of everything taken apart
Now for your distribution block…if you so choose to make your own as I did.
I used two pieces of wood and jb welded them together
Then drilled a hold and alse made ¼ of the hole large enough for the head of the bolt to go back into the wood so it doesn’t touch any part of the inside of the car. (Would be bad if it did)
To fill the hole in its filled with mostly jb weld then a layer of caulking I had laying around just as a precaution.
The mess I made during the construction of this creative piece of work. O and I painted mine black.
That is the block mounted under the hood. I did drill another hole for it to mount there with and also drilled a hold in the metal of the car. I haven’t filled that hole in yet…but have every intention to soon.
Now the stock ground under the hood will need to be grounded somewhere…here was my original location…but I ended up having to put it else where
Just some pics
In the below picture you can see the grounding point that I ended up using
Here you can see how the distribution block I made works….its kinda like the awesomeness of the car
And close up of grounds
For running all the wires through the car…..i used this hole and the grommet. Just cut the grommet a little bigger and you can fit things through it
This is how 91ParkAve did his. Just so you can see other ways
And his ground point
And another of his
Update with more pics and a few more tid bits of information.
so the above pic is where I currently have my ground but with my car the sheet metal isn't a good enough ground for the starter to crank the motor over well so i am having to run another 0 gauge wire to the engine block to carry the current....doing that tomorrow.
this battery is an absolute beast....had it tested and it has 994CCA and is only rated for 800. if only my grounds were good enough. and that 13+ volts is with the car off lol
i placed my battery on the passenger side of the car as close to the rear seats as possible. i do have a battery box to put it in though just to protect it.
And i need more torches
So for starters…follow these steps in the below link to remove the batter and replace it if that all you want to do. If you want to move the battery to the trunk as I did continue reading and looking at the pictures for the how to.
http://www.gpona.com/forums/gxp-are...the-battery-in-your-gxp-with-pics-t26509.html
Now for moving the battery to the trunk (means you will never have to do all that again to replace the battery or anything)
Your shopping car needs to include the following
20feet of zero or 2 gauge wire
Ring terminal connectors for whatever gauge wire you got. I think 4 will be enough.
Ring terminals for 4 gauge wire. 2 but I would have a 3[SUP]rd[/SUP] just to have a spare
1.5 feet of ground wire
Battery – I got an optima red top Group size 34/78 battery
Specs – 800 cold cranking amps; 1000 cranking amps; 41 pounds; and a 100min reserve capacity
Battery terminals
Sand Paper
Power Distribution Post (I made one which I will show on down so you can see. Mainly I didn’t want to wait till after Christmas so I just made one)
Solder if you want. But you could use a hammer instead. I soldered and hammered mine.
http://www.iem-services.co.uk/asps/uploads/big/977-1.jpg
So for starters…….I thought in order to remove the fuse box you had to take all the fuses out…..and I did. But luckily I had this to go off of because I was smart enough to take a picture first
Picture of everything taken apart
Now for your distribution block…if you so choose to make your own as I did.
I used two pieces of wood and jb welded them together
Then drilled a hold and alse made ¼ of the hole large enough for the head of the bolt to go back into the wood so it doesn’t touch any part of the inside of the car. (Would be bad if it did)
To fill the hole in its filled with mostly jb weld then a layer of caulking I had laying around just as a precaution.
The mess I made during the construction of this creative piece of work. O and I painted mine black.
That is the block mounted under the hood. I did drill another hole for it to mount there with and also drilled a hold in the metal of the car. I haven’t filled that hole in yet…but have every intention to soon.
Now the stock ground under the hood will need to be grounded somewhere…here was my original location…but I ended up having to put it else where
Just some pics
In the below picture you can see the grounding point that I ended up using
Here you can see how the distribution block I made works….its kinda like the awesomeness of the car
And close up of grounds
For running all the wires through the car…..i used this hole and the grommet. Just cut the grommet a little bigger and you can fit things through it
This is how 91ParkAve did his. Just so you can see other ways
And his ground point
And another of his
Update with more pics and a few more tid bits of information.
so the above pic is where I currently have my ground but with my car the sheet metal isn't a good enough ground for the starter to crank the motor over well so i am having to run another 0 gauge wire to the engine block to carry the current....doing that tomorrow.
this battery is an absolute beast....had it tested and it has 994CCA and is only rated for 800. if only my grounds were good enough. and that 13+ volts is with the car off lol
i placed my battery on the passenger side of the car as close to the rear seats as possible. i do have a battery box to put it in though just to protect it.
And i need more torches
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