[DeTomaso] Drop battery box

Brian mazdastuff at yahoo.com
Sun Jul 28 12:02:39 EDT 2013


My car has the battery box and it holds a red top optima.  My car came with a bunch of Hall stuff installed so I figured it was a Hall part also.  Maybe it's not?
Brian

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On Jul 28, 2013, at 7:02 AM, Will Kooiman <will.kooiman at gmail.com> wrote:

I agree.

I had a box from Hall, and it was very well put together.

I did not use it, though.  I decided to mount the battery in the engine
compartment, right behind the passenger's seat.

I sat on the fence for a long time.  I finally decided I'd rather have a
full size battery with short cables that was difficult to access over a
smaller battery sunken into the front floor.
--
Will





On 7/28/13 2:36 AM, "Mike Drew" <MikeLDrew at aol.com> wrote:

> Rob,
> 
> My drop box was custom made and unfortunately he chose the smallest
> battery available in the quest for light weight, and built the box around
> it. So I am very limited with respect to the batteries I can buy.
> 
> The trunk floor is higher in the back so a conventional battery box
> probably won't satisfy your needs. Even though the vendor sourced units
> are expensive, installation is relatively simple and that counts for a
> lot. 
> 
> If you can fabricate metal you could build one yourself but it would take
> some time to do it right. If you have more money than time, buying is
> probably a better option than making.
> 
> Mike
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On Jul 27, 2013, at 15:25, Rob Dumoulin <rob at dumoulins.net> wrote:
> 
>> All,
>> 
>> When I got my barn-find car, it had not had brakes for a while due to a
>> major leak in the lines leaving the shuttle valve. I replumbed all that
>> years ago but could tell, there was serious brake fluid damage under the
>> carpet. Today, I pulled the carpet on my quest to redo the front trunk.
>> No
>> surprise, the original body paint is all peeled up but luckily I found
>> only
>> surface rust.
>> 
>> While I have the trunk apart, I want to drop my battery and clean up the
>> front trunk look. I run an Optima, but do not necessarily want to
>> restrict
>> my size to it forever and would rather plan for a full-size option.
>> 
>> Is the drop box a simple battery box you can get from Jegs or Summit
>> (below) or do I need to buy one from a vendor. What have you all done?
>> 
>> http://www.summitracing.com/parts/tay-48200/overview/
>> 
>> Rob DuMoulin
>> 904.476.8744
>> rob at dumoulins.net
>> www.kbsi.co
>> http://www.linkedin.com/pub/rob-dumoulin/0/1b6/58
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