[DeTomaso] Battery Tie Down Tray for Optima

[Julian Kift]

How about drilling a hole in the trunk either side of the battery and using all thread with a lock nut below and above the trunk floor to hold it in place, then make a simple cross brace with holes for wing nuts to the all thread. You can slip some plastic tubing over the exposed all thread e.g. fuel line to make it look better.

Julian

> On Mar 8, 2016, at 11:22 AM, Michael Shortt <michaelsavga at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>   Is it too late to braze a new bracket where it belongs?
>   If not, I have a spare battery hold down set up.
>   Option two would be to install other hold down system with sheet metal
>   screws
>   and I'd probably pick one with a wide footprint flange and also use J/B
>   Weld on the bottom.
>   Option three could be a sideways strap that attaches to the firewall
>   behind the battery instead of the floor below the battery.
>   Option four are those little clip style hold downs that just grip the
>   lip on the base of the battery.
>   those would also have to be mounted with bolts, plastic welding or
>   brazing.
>   Michael Shortt
>   I
> 
>   On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 1:58 PM, Rob Dumoulin <[1]rob at dumoulins.net>
>   wrote:
> 
>     A  A For the Optima batteries, what are some of the ways you have
>     tied them
>     A  A down. I bought a nice billet tray that I though would work but
>     the bars
>     A  A holding down the battery on in the front and back rather than
>     side to
>     A  A side and it protrudes too far out into the trunk.AA  I could
>     try a
>     A  A side-to-side one, but wanted to get some first hand knowledge
>     from the
>     A  A collective.
>     A  A BTW, one of my stock brackets was never on the car, so I could
>     never
>     A  A use the traditional approach.
>     A  A Any recommendations?
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