DIY: Battery Relo

Solus

*STUPID QUESTION ALERT* I am sure most of you assume if I post its a stupid question and I am full of them, but why relocate the battery? Like what point does it serve?

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There are no stupid questions, only stupider askers

The car is front-heavy from the factory, and so you want to remove weight from the front if anywhere to help get closer to neutral weight balance. Removing weight from the top of the car will lower the center of gravity, giving handling advantages again. Reducing overall weight of course also increases the horsepower:weight ratio, which gives better acceleration, as well as again improving handling (less weight to throw around, so to speak).

So, depending on your priorities, you want to drop overall weight, and you especially want to drop it from anywhere towards the front and/or top of the car. This is where the battery comes in.

The battery is really heavy as far as car parts go. Ours weighs 35 lbs. One option is to simply move the stock battery to the trunk, shifting 35 lbs from front to rear to help balance. Another is to leave the battery where it is, but use a lighter one, shedding weight from the front but not adding any to the rear. The DIY in this thread does a little of both, it removes the 35 lb battery from the front, and replaces it with a 14 lb battery in the rear, giving an overall reduction of 21 lbs, and a 14 lb shift in weight to the rear.

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