| lcthank | -- 10-06-2021 @ 8:11 AM |
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I have an Optima battery for my 36 Ford 3 window coupe, I need to build a battery box for it . Any ideas? Hank Hancock
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| kubes40 | -- 10-06-2021 @ 11:39 AM |
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You can lay the Optima at an angle in the existing box. I'd installed an Optima in a friend's '36 last year just that way. I had purchased a cheap (1" wide) binding strap and tied the battery down with that. Cut off the excess strap... Mike "Kube" Kubarth
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| Grant | -- 10-07-2021 @ 4:55 AM |
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Good morning Hank. One option would be to use a 1949/1950/1951 Ford passenger car battery box. That's what we did to accommodate a six volt Optima battery when converting the 1939 hydraulic brakes on our '36 roadster to a more modern dual reservoir master cylinder. The later battery box fit very well with a couple of minor modifications ...... two bolt holes and a vertical steel plate to hold in the Optima. Hopefully you can enlarge these photos.
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