will probably save you about 4-5kgs Craig - depends how fanatical you are about getting the weight down - thought of a lightweight bonnet at all tt
Infinity has one. Only enough to run the engine and a few other essentials. Not recomended if you have a stereo or other extras. You may need a medium sized one for the heaters and demisters etc. Infinity doesnt have anything apart from engine & lights to run!
an odyssey battery will be very light and allegedly has enough welly to start a truck, about 70-80 it's what those use on robot wars. mines going under the passenger seat
if you want to go really nuts then change to a red top and lost the alternator.... also how about getting one of the fibreglass boots with a plastic rear window - you can fit it for track use, then put the original boot (with heated screen...) back in for road use
got an Odyssey one in mine - put it in middle of where back seat used to be on the floor - PC680 (680A cranking current, 16Ah) weighs 7kg which is at least 10kg less than a std battery Been fine so far, fitted a year ago, cost about 90. Dont use car daily though. A mate with an RS Turbo who goes sprinting has a Red Top 20 (about 5.5kg I think) and had it in his car for 2yrs, and its his daily driver (but he has no boom boom boxes etc) Personally I got one with a little more welly than the RT20 since my engine has a bit more compression than his Cheers Rob Edited by: RobT
lol @ trendy tramp! I was just thinking it's a relativley cheap way of loosing 10kg's + from the car. And i'm also thinking of re-locating at the same time. I don't have big stereo etc, but i would need enough to run main and dipped lights, heaters, rear window and a head unit with 2 speakers.
I go to the gym 3 times a week and do hundereds of miles on mountain bike - It's only fair my car puts in the same effort!
have you considered having a limb removed, as you don't use the clutch that left leg must just be along for the ride
Tubs i'd check any of the cateram/westfield cars etc... as they always seem to have the small batterys when iv'e seen them at track days.
I wouldn't move them too far from the engine bay!! I had originally had mine in the passenger footwell and since putting in the 9A i've had to move in back to to engine bay purely because the battery didn't have enough juice!! You could probably get away with using a smaller battery than you think..... unless you sit around parked up with the car stereo on?? A battery is purely to get the car started the alternator will do the rest once the engine is running!!
you could run a normal battery for road use and then fit a tiny battery for track use and use a jumper battery when starting tt
and they replace them regularly, keep them on those 'conditioners' when not in use and they still cause trouble... Motorcycle batteries from memory.
