I need to mount an Optima battery horizontally in a fairly tight spot. I'm thinking of using a steel battery box that is made for jeeps. I'll paint it to match the engine and heat exchanger. Below is a pic of the battery box and the boat it is going in. The picture of the battery box is the side that I'll thru-bolt to the battery shelf. ...nice thing about Optima batterys is that you can mount them upside down if you want to. ...no optima debates please I've used them for years.



This is a Donzi 22 and it has a battery shelf in the forward part of the engine compartment but I've take up some of that space wtih a a heat exchanger. There is a fair amount of room to still put the battery under the heat exchanger. I plan on mounting the battery horizontally underneath the heat exchanger in the pic. ...about 1/2 the battery will be under the HX so plenty of room left to run cables etc. Thanks for any advise.

why not put batt under back seat?

or why not use the space on either side of the motor, I used to have a 22zx it had the water tank on one side and the batteries on the other. I also like the back seat idea.

There are plenty of anodized and powdercoated AL battery boxes, and also Stainless Steel, eddie marine, stainless marine ect ect.

I don't like the idea of steel either....

Know of any Any AL you can mount sideways?

...cause that is a pretty convinient storage area in fact that's it except for under the bow in the cave.

My Eliminator had some from Eddie Marine if I remember correctly that provisions to side mount them to a stringer so you could probably use those same holes to lay it down on something. Why do you need to mount them side ways?

It will fit better if I lay it down on it's side. ...height clearance issue.

this was my 22zx see the two batteries one on each side? Do you have a classic or a zx?

I use these for group 24 and optima with great results. They are 1/4 in cast aluminum

http://www.speedwaymotors.com/Plain-...-Kit,3454.html