JonMc

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I'm about to do a battery relocation and having removed the battery I've had a look at the battery tray to see how to remove it and clean up the inner wing. I can see a number of spot welds that I'll need to remove, but it also looks like it might be bonded on.

Anyone know whether it'll pull straight off if I drill out the spot welds or would I be better getting the dremel out and cutting it off

Cheers

Jon

GezP

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Will pull straight out mate after drilling the welds. I've recently done it. The body work is only primed underneath

crazyspeedfreakz

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This is exactly what I am doing in the next month or so, relocate the battrey to boot and remove the battery stand... I saw that this is what prodriver done on his project thread and it dose look much better
Jon did u pick up a kit for the relocation, just I have been looking into it and struggled to find a circuit breaker & decent fused power distribution block where did u manage to get yours ?
I can see all the cables etc on eBay, am I right in thinking its just heavy duty amp power cable.

JonMc

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For the cable run you need either 0 or 4 AWG cable.

I ended up buying a 4AWG amp wiring kit as it was cheaper than buying seperate cable, fuses, CBs etc - it doesn't need a CB by te battery, use a single in line fuse instead - that's what I'm doing. I picked up terminals, distribution blocks, wiring kit etc for about £45 all in from eBay and Amazon. I'll put some more detail in my project thread when it warms up again. The only thing I am missing is a 4 AWG butt splice (not as crude as it sounds)

JonMc

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Cheers mate, I'm going to clean up the inner wings anyway so not worried about them only being primed - black or white hammerite

GezP

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That's exactly what I used. Gave it a good coat of black hammerite before putting the swirl pot system in

JonMc

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I've got a 'kin huge air filter to replace the ABS and a catch can to replace the battery

tubbytommy

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dont forget to take pics of the battery relocation and wiring, im interested too see how to do this.

GezP

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Sound cool

I and a few others have done this in the project section

tubbytommy

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thanks, ill have a look, im trying to make a bit of room to mount my catch can as its a pain to empty where it is now

GezP

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You guys could just get rid of your air pump, makes enough room for a catch can etc

tubbytommy

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air pump??

GezP

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Cold air pump. It's a black plast cylinder'ish part near the left strut. It's only there for the American market for their emissions. It will need a map tweak, Duncan has to imput a code. It saves a bit of weight and load of space. I'll find a pic

tubbytommy

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im not sure i have one, a picture would be great.

GezP

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And these can be removed



I sold these to a guy in Denmark for over £250. Apparently they're used in lagacy's too.

Turbotits

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Air pump is only on the wrx 2.5's i believe

tubbytommy

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ahhh the tgv pump??

mines a 2.0 sti

GezP

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sorry I thought they were on all newages

crazyspeedfreakz

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Pics on how to remove battery tray would be great !!

JonMc

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Watch this thread for details - just finished fitting leather recaros to an ST220 and my hands are just about allive enough to work the ratchet - too cold to do anything electrical

https://www.scoobynet.com/projects-4...3-re-work.html

GezP

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Page 4 shows some of the wiring and page 5 shows removing battery tray

https://www.scoobynet.com/919798-my-...it-more-4.html

Removing the tray can take a while but is simple. Just drill the spot welds and rip out. The hawkeye fuse box is bolted to the tray which will need undoing. Not sure about other newages.

I got all my wiring and parts from:

http://www.vehicle-wiring-products.e...e/homepage.php

JonMc

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I couldn't find one of those pseudo battery terminal boxes so I ended up with a fused distibution block

GezP

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Must admit, their site is hard to use, their catalogue is better. You could always call them, they're pretty easy to chat too.

GezP

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http://www.vehicle-wiring-products.e...tconn.php#jbox

At the bottom of the page

JonMc

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I've used them for loads of stuff in the past, just didn't see them this time, until I looked again 20-minutes ago I have a couple of fused relays fitted so I can use the fused distribution I have to replace the inline fuses so it worked out well in the end

GezP

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One thing I would recomend is: put some extra protection around the power wire when going though/under the dash and under the back seats. There's a few sharp edges it could catch on