Battery Choice?
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After a new battery

Recommendations please.

Usual requirements. Light, small, dry cell, good amp/hour rating.

What’s your choice?

Si

I drill holes in everything..!

i'v got a varley red top 20 - its very nice, pretty light and very small. tad expensive though.
easily enough for my car, but would be good to know what else it will be powering other than the engine, dizzy/ecu

was the dimmensions of the varley red top?? I'm also lookin for 1 that is small and has a gud amp power rating. I'll be runnin engine and pretty big ice

its a race battery so not sure how it would put up with the drain of ice? i'll find the dimensions tomorrow when i go round to where the car is garaged

ok cool thanks, i'm up to tryin anything at this point, otherwise i will have to run either another battery and connect them so they charge 1 by 1 then drain the same way or fit a cap

If you're going down the big sound system route don't waste your money on a capacitor. Do it properly either with a split charge system or a single deep cycle battery and a bigger alternator. Optima Yellow Top is the battery to get.

The cure is a more powerful altenator like a delco or something,
more batteries will have more power untill they go flat because your charging two at the Same rate..
i just went to halfords with a tape measure and bought the biggest that would fit, its like 400 or so cranking amps and was on offer, £55 i think

Odyssey batteries are excellent -fully sealed,made to withstand deep cycling repeatedly and they are RED !

I run a 306 TD battery. I get these for £20 new, compared to £65+ in halfords etc.

I used the spare money to buy a new 70amp alternator. Never had any problems so far.

Sounds like a plan to me.

Odyssey look quite good. But think i might go for one of these.

http://www.powervampracing.com/detail.asp?ID=21

Or maybe this one

http://www.powervampracing.com/detail.asp?ID=23

Si

Edited by Si P on 20th Sep, 2008.

I drill holes in everything..!

ok cool will have a look at those options

Edited by Tweaked on 21st Sep, 2008.

i used a 650a 807 2.2 hdi batery in my mini for a while for the sound system, worked a treat but its quite big, fits snugly in the batery box :)

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-Ford S-max Mk2 Ecoboost
-Rover 100 VVC #2 - track project

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heavy but give a good weight ballance as they weigh the same as the engine

Drives
-Ford S-max Mk2 Ecoboost
-Rover 100 VVC #2 - track project

Searching is all you need on TurboMinis

didnt seem that heavy to be honest.I only have the battery and fuel tank weight at the back anyway. lol

I use something similar to these

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Hillbilly-AGM-20Amp-...id=p3286.c0.m14

They are gel golf cart batteries, 12V and 20AH like a Red Top race battery but at a fraction of the price.

I was lucky enough to find a local dealer and bought 2 for £50 cash.

JF.

Jon: Will that one start a 11.2CR Mini?

May be Vegard.... I always use a jump pack so not to drain any juice on the race car. It has no probs with 8.6!

JF.

I'm going to give these a try, when I get to battery buying time. They are supposed to be really good.

http://www.powervampracing.com/

Tim Rowe

"Is est totus perfectus per fumi quod speculum"

GTM Coupe Turbo

It took me a day and a half of starting and stopping to flatten my powervamp battery PV25 I think at the IMM - pretty good i thought although that was on the 11:1 engine

On 5th Sep, 2011 Vegard said:
I stand corrected. You should know

i need a new battery veg, if it will start my engine at 13:1 it shouldent have too many problems with yours.

13:1? What fuel do you run that on to stop it pinking?

that powervamp stuff looks cheap. even all the connectors etc are.

1/2 v shell power max.

1/2 sunoco 119.

costs about 70 pounds for a tank of fuel.

can do about 100 miles on a tank.

car gets used twice a week about. 15 miles in total.

Edited by Sam on 24th Sep, 2008.