XR7-4.6’s disjointed build thread 2 Electric Boogaloo

[1997ThunderbirdLXV6]

Didn't I send you that battery tray...over a year ago?

Fun fact: my roommate's Cadillac ATS comes stock with the battery in the trunk. One time, he disconnected it to clear a code which my app refused to clear for some reason; and then he closed the trunk! And there's no way in without power; base ATS without folding seats. We had to use jumper cables on the terminals under the hood just to open the trunk.

It's great that you could repurpose that firewall passage. I had the same luck: the original owner had a cable-operated supplemental hood latch, but the key was missing. I used that passage for cornering light/DRLs.

 

[Chingon1]

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Oh no way that’s dope. Looks very OEM to be honest. the pros of having a garage to work out of haha

 

[XR7-4.6]

Didn't I send you that battery tray...over a year ago?

Fun fact: my roommate's Cadillac ATS comes stock with the battery in the trunk. One time, he disconnected it to clear a code which my app refused to clear for some reason; and then he closed the trunk! And there's no way in without power; base ATS without folding seats. We had to use jumper cables on the terminals under the hood just to open the trunk.

It's great that you could repurpose that firewall passage. I had the same luck: the original owner had a cable-operated supplemental hood latch, but the key was missing. I used that passage for cornering light/DRLs.

Probably, as you can see this wasn’t a hasty plan

This is actually technically the third repurposing of that hole as it from the factory was the ABS sensor wire passthrough…. Which I also deleted… but before I deleted ABS entirely I rerouted all the ABS wiring through the PCM harness on the passenger side to clean up the firewall, which conveniently gave me a spot for the battery cable to go when that came to fruition.

The Cadillac situation is how it is in my mom’s Prius V. The starting battery went dead on it and in order to open the tailgate to get to it you have to jumper the leads in the engine compartment.