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What are you thinking for future access (top or bottom), and what type of box? Are you thinking an enclosed (but vented) box or a tray? Your points of support will depend on the stiffness of the box to some degree. One thing to think about is where you're going to run your fuel lines and wiring from front to back. A big solid box in that location is going to eliminate that frame rail as a routing/support point, and your MC mounting plate totally blocks the driver's side rail for front to back support.

Originally Posted by rspears

What are you thinking for future access (top or bottom), and what type of box? Are you thinking an enclosed (but vented) box or a tray? Your points of support will depend on the stiffness of the box to some degree. One thing to think about is where you're going to run your fuel lines and wiring from front to back. A big solid box in that location is going to eliminate that frame rail as a routing/support point, and your MC mounting plate totally blocks the driver's side rail for front to back support.

The box access will be from the rear, and material can be steel or stainless steel, it will be a box? and vented at the back where a door of sorts will hold the bat in place. If I use stainless for the box than I'll have to bolt it to some kind of brackets welded to the frame.
All my wiring is going inside the frame rail, I thought of the fuel line in there also ( opposite side ) but not to sure about that, it'd have to be rubber all the way to pull it through. The fuel line could also pass just above the box. I plan on using a sealed battery like a optima and laying it on its side.
Speaking of fuel line.
What's best for a hard line running from the tank to the firewall area ? Aluminum, steel, copper ?