DFWmax

so i was leaving for work today, and i decided to bring along the two tires that i bought (225/55-16 sp sport 8000), and on the way to work (44mi, hiway), i noticed that the extra 40? pounds in the trunk seemed to make the car ride much more stable. the back doesnt feel as loose anymore when going at 80 and lane changing...

it might also be that i filled up with a full tank of gas the night before....

but anyway, i was thinking, should i put some dead weight in the trunk to make the car ride better? what should i use? sandbags, gallon jugs of water, some weights from my weight set?

any suggestions, comments?

sinewave

Move the battery to the trunk.

DFWmax

good idea, is it easy to do it? how do you get the wires from the trunk to the front? i suppose you would get a battery box or something and mount it inside the trunk. what about the front? did you install two posts for the other wires to connect to?

i noticed you said that you moved the battery to the trunk, but your picture shows a battery time to update pic?

BRIGBOY

Made alot of difference for me. Two 10inch Eclipse woofers + the 1000w eclipse amp + the heavy azz box. If thats your style.

Dustyroads

You can always just pile a bunch of audio equipment in the trunk of your car. It wouldn't take long to get up to 40 or more pounds of weight. Of course if you don't want a bunch of subs and stuff cluttering up your trunk aread, you can get those bags of tube sand, usually 20lbs each. Those work well when trying to add a little weight to the rear.

sinewave

Yeah, it is time to update the pic. I'm going to have to do a complete write-up with photos on this, but here is the short version.

I got a battery box from Wal-Mart and mounted the battery on the passenger side of the trunk. I went to a marine supply store and got 25' of battery cable, 4 crimp-on cable connectors, marine style battery terminals with studs and wingnuts for the cable terminations, and a bunch of tie-wraps with screw eyes. I bought #2/0 cable because it was on sale, but #1 or #1/0 would have been fine. The existing cable size is #2, but you need to upsize it to compensate for voltage drop. I ran the new positive cable to the front and attached it to the starter terminal. I left the old cable attached, but insulated the old battery connector with electrical tape.

I put a 150A, 12V circuit breaker on the positive side of the battery and grounded the negative to the body just below the trunk floor.