My mk3 1.4 banger

[trog_nfs]

If you're putting your battery in the boot and enclosing it like that, I would connect the vent on the battery to the outside.

Should be small hole on the side of the battery. You can fit a little elbow into it (Some batteries come with them) and a bit of tube to the outside.

I think its hydrogen gas they produce normally, but they can produce some horrible fumes if something isn't right.

[Wayne]

Battery in the boot needs to be a sealed type with a vent pipe to the outside world, standard battery will be no good and if anything could be dangerous. 

[trog_nfs]

Isn't it normally the battery that causes cars to burst into flames when involved in an accident?

[Ferdinor]

Thanks for the thoughts guys, but my dad works as a caravan engineer and has told me everything i need to do to make it safe, if it can sit in a caravan then it can sit in my boot 
Everything will slowly come to light 

[Wayne]

So is it a sealed battery, if not then it will vent hydrogen which in a enclosed space is not good.

[Ferdinor]

Nop it is a vented battery with a breather pipe, whitch shall lead to the outside of the car, and the mdf box shall be made sealed at the bottom incase of a leak 

[trog_nfs]

So is it a sealed battery, if not then it will vent hydrogen which in a enclosed space is not good.

Aha, it was hydrogen! Thanks Wayne, that was going to bug me all day.

Nop it is a vented battery with a breather pipe

Thought so.

[Ferdinor]

So a vented battery with a breather pipe isnt so bad im guessing? its either this or find space in the engine bay, its a 1.4 so there should be room? what do you reckon? 

[trog_nfs]

So a vented battery with a breather pipe isnt so bad im guessing? its either this or find space in the engine bay, its a 1.4 so there should be room? what do you reckon? 

Thats the set up exec cars like BMWs and Mercs have. Used to change the batteries for Halfords

[Ferdinor]

Hi guys i know its been so long since i have been on the forum and posted about my car so i thought it was about time to show you the progress so here goes i dont have many photos just a few from before i last posted to half way through and how it looks now so here goes 
so last time i was on here i think my car looked something like this



Well after this photo i have been doing a lot of home spraying and managed to get the car to look something like this





As you can see it now has part coloured coded bumpers with a gloss black strip all the way round the car and if any of you remmeber it used to have a black boot well you will happy to know now it has a red one 

So the last two things that have changed since that photo are............ Coilovers

And i sprayed my steelies


This is how the car sits now and will do until i can afford rims 
I hope you like