[johnny5]

My question is after doing a search I didn't see anything about the location for it. Here is two pictures from my car any help would be great.

 

[RAIDER SS]

From the factory the positive terminal was closest to the fender. There is no problem using this battery as shown as long as your wire connections are long enough to reach.

 

[johnny5]

So now iam confused which terminal has the ground wire connected to it.

 

[oldcutlass]

The one that has the “-“ marked next to it.

 

[600renegade]

if you are un-familiar with battery connections on these old cars, please wear a safety shield or at least good safety glasses when working with and hooking up batteries...

 

[Greg P]

My question is after doing a search I didn't see anything about the location for it. Here is two pictures from my car any help would be great.

In 1966, 1967 and 1968 the negative battery terminal is next to the passenger fender. I am not knowledgeable about other years.

Greg

 

[Dean]

Remember the rule... when connecting a battery, always connect the positive cable first and when disconnecting a battery, always disconnect the negative cable first.

 

[Georgia69]

That looks like a battery with both top posts and side posts. At the risk of stating the obvious, if you are not using the side posts, you can pick that battery up and turn it 180 degrees if you want the positive terminal closest to the fender.

 

[Bob Tiley]

Ground is - on the battery , so what is your question? Obviously your not going to connect it to +. As others have stated you don't have a battery that is like stock and the factory cables probably won't reach the reversed battery posts on that incorrect battery.

 

[SFD]

I was wrong, 67 positive is at the fender.

 

[RAIDER SS]

I was wrong, 67 positive is at the fender.

As is the 66.

 

[LKN BCK]

And my 65 with the 283 & PG

 

[SFD]

Rightin’ my wrong -
wiring diagram shows as above.
AIM calls out:
6 banger - positive @ fender.
V-8 - negative @ fender.

 

[DUTCH MAX HEADWORK]

I would put the negative at the fender, to heck with the factory correct. With side post batteries I would want the side posts facing into the engine bay and not the radiator support regardless of the factory configuration. Place the plastic plugs in the terminals if not used. Less chance of the battery shorting out if the fender or rad support gets crumpled in a collision.

What are your goals, show points or functionality and safety.

For safety and function leave it as is. Get a battery cable with a 12 or 10 gauge lead in addition to the main neg lead. Ground your cable to the engine. The additional small lead to the inner fender.

 

[hydro462]

Every Chevy I ever bough had the negative terminal next to the fender.. Chevrolet had the brains to install the battery, starter and fuel pump on the passenger side to help over come all the extra weight that the steering box, column, steering wheel, pedals, interior switches and driver put on the drivers side..
Aligning Pontiacs was always such a pain because of the extra 3 to 400 pounds of parts and a human body put on the cars drivers side. I've already had to put over a full degree of extra positive caster on the passenger side to get them to stop pulling to the right..

 

[Dean]

Every Chevy I ever bough had the negative terminal next to the fender..

My 69 and my 70 both have the negative next to the fender

 

[25C 70]

A vintage picture in a Super Chevy article I found online shows an under hood of a 396/360 and the negative terminal is on fender side toward firewall.

 

[RAIDER SS]

Rightin’ my wrong -
wiring diagram shows as above.
AIM calls out:
6 banger - positive @ fender.
V-8 - negative @ fender.

Rightin' my wrong -
66 AIM shows negative terminal closest to fender for heavy duty battery, 396 ONLY. (UPC12, A9.5)
earlier page shows positive cable next to fender for 13000-L6 & V8 ENG, EXCEPT - 396 ENGINE. (UPC 12, A8)

 

[SFD]

Correct, 13817