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Old Sep 25, 2007 | 01:13 PM
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i am getting ready to buy a battery relocation kit and i was wondering if 2 ga wire is big enough when its gonna be like 15 feet long? and body know any good kits for a decent price?
Old Sep 25, 2007 | 01:44 PM
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summit has a good kit for under $100
Old Sep 25, 2007 | 04:49 PM
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Go with bigger cable and make your own kit. Buy a box and than piece it together, its not that hard and it will prob save you some cash. Im prob missing a few things since i did mine a while back but heres a small parts list.

Pos/Neg Cables
Box
Vent Tube
2 Threaded Rods
Battery Hold Down (that goes over rods)
2 lock washers (for underside of car)
2 lock nuts (for underside of car)
4 nuts (2 for bottom of the box, 2 for the hold down)
2 wingnuts (for top of box)

That should be it.
Old Sep 25, 2007 | 05:50 PM
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the summit kit is 2 ga also
Old Sep 25, 2007 | 06:21 PM
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I've been using 00 gauge welding cable years now.
REASON, it has like 300 conductors (strands) in there instead of just a few like battery cables have.
Never had a problem yet.........
Old Sep 25, 2007 | 06:24 PM
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audio cable is the best
Old Sep 25, 2007 | 07:19 PM
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http://store.summitracing.com/partde...p;autoview=sku

This is what I used. I was fairly pleased except the 3/8" threadedrods they supplied where too short as was the negative cable. I had to make my own. So I would say 88blue is right, the best wayis to make your own. Stereo cable is very good for this and flexible.
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