How important is battery ventilation?

[GolfGTI8v]

Could you not cut the original header tank bracket and washer bottle bracket and move the the other side & weld/bolt on?

surely easyer than running cables all through the car moving the battery?

[F17BAD]

Kells' your engine bay makes me jelous whenever I see it lol, what did you use to mount the water and coolant bottles too did you make something up?

yeah we made some brakets up.. i only moved the washer bottle because i needed the space where the MK3 one is to route my induction kit

if i was you i would just move the coolant bottle, moving the battery crossed my mind for about 1 second im not really down for it

have you a recent pic of your bay for me to see ??

[Dan_GTi8v]

this was taken just after I got it running but its pretty much the same as it is now



I know its very messy It's had a clean since then but all the pipes and crap are still as it is in the pic

I was wanting to move the battery so I can have the induction cone there, as it is now the rubber piping is a bit bent. Its either move the battery or somehow remove the metal oe tip and make something up to route it so it goes the other way and the cone could be in the big space on the drivers side

looking at this pic makes me sad lol I need to tidy this up but i'm just too lazy

[leigh_harty]

Get youself to a scrappy and rip the wiring out of a beemer that has one in the boot. E36 have a longer floor pan than a golf so should have ample cable to play with.. presuming you havent already