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Originally Posted by zeek
well thats what im wondering. i wanna move it for weight transfer but would also like to keep my spare tire. so if i move the battury to where the spare tire is. can i move the spare tire to where the rear glove box is ?
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no, the two sides are different enough that you'd have to have gone to engineering school in order to swap them. anyone that has moved it into the spare tire compartment has their spare in the well in the hatch area, or worse, in the back seat. while it can be said that for the weight transfer it's a better idea to put it into the spare tire compartment, the only question remains what to do with the spare tire. since it's already in a good place for weight transfer and you intend on keeping it in the car, i would go with putting the battery either in the well or in the odriver's side. fabbing up a bracket/tray to relocate the battery to the driver's side is actually fairly simple and there are examples out there.
http://www.thirdgen.org/techbb2/show...hreadid=270234
since you've already asked this question and gotten decent answers to it, i wonder why you are continuing to look for an answer. the better question is what exactly do you want to do?
if i understand you correctly, you want to relocate the battery. do you not want to relocate anything else in the process, or are you open to relocating the spare tire? if you are set against putting the battery in the well or in the driver's side compartment, then i can only suggest that you dump the spare tire and jack and fab up a bracket/tray for the spare tire compartment. you will save some weight by not having the spare tire/jack in the car.
in any case, you will need a kill switch. the idea of relocating the battery and then putting in a dummy battery just to pass tech is ludicrous and you should forget you even saw that post. all of that just to avoid putting in a kill switch...
since thirdgen.org has adequate examples of ways to relocate the battery, i would direct you there. unless i completely misunderstand what you want to do with the battery, in which case i wish you luck in your search.