battery relocation question

[nealtovsen@yahoo.com (Neal Tovsen)]

> Has anyone used an Optima RedTop located in the
> trunk?

I didn't go that route for the race car because
they're HEAVY!! I went with an (ACK!) Honda CRX
battery. I don't have to worry about starting in the
cold or anything, so a slight loss of CCA's is OK with
me. The CRX battery also fit better in the marine box
I had.

For big events, I might even get a lawn tractor
battery and shave more weight.

> The nice thing about the Redtop is
> that (in theory) it 
> should be able to be mounted on its end or its side
> tucked into the back 
> pasenger's corner.

Yup. My battery is in the spare tire well...right in
the middle! I'm not worried about trunk space. With
the optima, you also don't necessarily HAVE to have a
box. They won't leak or vent fumes, so you could just
strap it down without a box at all.

> The other issue is, of course, how to get those
> 800CCAs up to the beefy 
> starter I need to kick over the TD.

I don't know anything about TDs. Do they really need
that much power? For some (completely uneducated)
reason I always assumed diesels would be
low-compression engines...shows what I know!

Neal

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