Battery box

[BlueFirePony]

What would be the disadvantage to allow the dry-cell batteries in CMC?

Too much like the upper dash trim piece in 4th gens and optisparks?

I'm gonna print out my favorite threads and let the authors read their posts around the campfire on Saturday.

Only do this if the author is able to act out the personalities and emotions of each posting individual. This could get fun! :lol:

Do I need to bring my school desk and props???

No...those are comedic master pieces that will only be marginalized by those without your touch....and a case of 5 hour drinks

[Mrs. Crumpacker]

What would be the disadvantage to allow the dry-cell batteries in CMC?

Too much like the upper dash trim piece in 4th gens and optisparks?

I'm gonna print out my favorite threads and let the authors read their posts around the campfire on Saturday.

Only do this if the author is able to act out the personalities and emotions of each posting individual. This could get fun! :lol:

After a few beers....this could be tons of fun. :lol:

I bet there is less drama in a beauty pagent. :P

This absolutely needs to happen. We will supply the video camera! :lol:

Sam's suggestion: Have other people pretend to be the posters.
Ex: Frank as MFW and Randy as Glenn

[Todd Covini]

Oh gosh...."Battery Boxes" went from zero to 9 pages with 122 replies and 1336 views since April 17th.

I don't have all nite...dare I read it all?

Can someone give me the Reader's Digest condensed version? :lol:

[Todd Covini]

Nevermind....I got sucked in and read it all and now have reader's remorse.

Some interesting perspectives...

-=- Todd

[Jrod]

Absent a complete "firewall," i.e. appropriate panel to separate the spaces, it's still considered to be in the driver's compartment.

And I think I've learned that you should not use metal thick enough to be called "plate" to do that.

INTERESTING... and what is the MINIMUM thickness of the so called rear firewall 1", 2" maybe 3"... any chance this rear firewall is located above the rear axles?

I don't know what constitutes firewall material around here, but for structural steel welding, AWS D1.3 sheet metal code states:

This welding code covers arc welding of structural sheet/strip steels, including cold formed members (hereafter collectively referred to as sheet steel) which are equal to or less than 3/16 in. (0.188 in. / 4.8 mm) in nominal thickness.

Thicker materials fall into the D1.1 structural steel code, commonly considered 'plate' steel.
On top of looking highly suspicious for 'free' ballast, 1/4" or greater firewall would be kind of a pain to weld to the factory steel.

[David Love AI27]

'free' ballast

I believe the topic is battery boxes and fire walls... don't recall ANY comments concerning "ballast"... that would be another topic all together...

[Jrod]

I suppose I was responding more to the 'don't use plate for a firewall' comment than your post. There seemed to be some discussion about the legality of excessively thick boxes earlier; I only intended to add a data point for material selection.

[David Love AI27]

I suppose I was responding more to the 'don't use plate for a firewall' comment than your post. There seemed to be some discussion about the legality of excessively thick boxes earlier; I only intended to add a data point for material selection.

Ok.. well that is different... LOL