battery relocation question

[haygood@aemail4u.com (Haygood)]

The Die Hard in my Scirocco weighed just over 40lbs.  The Optima is conside=
rably smaller and weighs 32lbs.  I also got mine cheaply ($75) because it w=
as a scratch-and-dent and my friend was the manager at that particular FLAP=
S.  Still, I'll buy them at full price in the future after it's spectacular=
 performance this winter.  Started like a fully charged battery in 30=C2=B0=
 weather after the car sat for 4 months.  Of course, I have awesome cables,=
 too, but the batt. gets a ton of credit.

Like I said, let me know if you want to buy some of my cable and/or want pi=
c's of the install.=20=20

BH

PS:  Diesel fuel ignites due solely to the engine's compression.  It's the =
same compression ignition that leads to knock in gas engines.  Diesels run =
in the neighborhood of 15:1 compression to ignite the fuel this way.  The s=
low burn of the fuel and the high compression help it burn efficiently.

--- Neal Tovsen <nealtovsen@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> 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=20
>> should be able to be mounted on its end or its side
>> tucked into the back=20
>> 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=20
>> 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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