battery relocation question

[drew@scirocco.cs.uoguelph.ca (Drew MacPherson)]

Well, with a compression ratio of 23.5:1 I do need some serious cranking
amps delivered to my starter... :)

Diesels are compression ignition motors - they compress air until it's 
damned hot, then they squirt some diesel into it, and the whole thing goes 
boom... :)

Drew

On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, Neal Tovsen wrote:

> 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.
> 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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