Battery Power Leads

Battery power leads are another easy quick fit.

GBS plug and play wiring kits are perfect for wiring a car, their battery power lead kit provides all the leads, fixings needed to get juice from the battery to the electrics in the vehicle.

Two holes need to be drilled through the firewall and they in turn are fitted with rubber grommets which the leads pass through.



The negative lead will earth on the chassis frame behind the dashboard panel whilst the positive is fastened to the fuse board panel via a screw terminal.

A further positive lead runs from the fuse board terminal to the starter motor and then from the starter motor to the alternator. A further engine earthing lead will need fitting when the engine is installed.

Remote Brake reservoir kit

Following on from the battery tray installation, attention turns to the brake reservoir which needs fitting to the master cylinder.

Now, in previous builds, the standard donor part for the brake reservoir has been the Sierra brake reservoir which simply pushed onto the master cylinder. The availability of those in the marketplace has virtually dried up, the odd one appears on Ebay but new, reconditioned ones are virtually impossible to find and when one does come available they seem to go for silly money.

GBS have addressed this shortage by developing their remote brake reservoir kit which is essentially a reservoir which fits to a bracket on the firewall and that in turn feeds the master cylinder with fluid through a couple of pipes/fittings - a nice solution:


so to get this fitted you need to:


Rivet the bracket which holds the reservoir onto the firewall

Drill out a couple of holes (+/- 28mm) in the side of the pedal box, apply a couple of rubber grommets and pass the piping through from the reservoir to the master cylinder.

Attach a couple of fittings to the top of the master cylinder which in turn the rubber pipe pushes onto.

Jubilee clip all the pipes to the fittings

Drill a further hole into the firewall to pass the wiring for the brake reservoir through to the rear.
Job done!

Battery Tray

I think I have previously mentioned about focusing attention towards the front of the car.. that said, a nice quick job to pass an hour is to fit the battery tray.

To do this it is best to have the battery to hand in order that you can position the tray correctly in the engine bay. The battery itself is an 063 model which is very common and widely available from many outlets.

I bought online from Tanya Batteries which were an excellent online resource for all things car batteries and offer a wide variety of batteries at varying prices. I went in at the cheaper end of the market acquiring a Powerline branded product. Next day delivery and very well packaged - highly recommended!

Anyway back to the installation of the tray. As mentioned earlier it really is a simple job, position the tray and battery, mark out on the panel it is being fixed to,  drill holes for rivets and rivet in place.

Remember to position the battery strap between the tray and panel before riveting as this is what holds the battery in position.

photos, I think show the installation quite well..