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jvandyke

jvandyke

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I pulled the battery out last night, 'bout threw my back out. I bet that stupid battery weighs 50 pounds.
Since it seems nearly any battery will "fit", anyone ever come across the perfect Spridget battery? Light. I bet I could eliminate 30 pounds judging by some of the weights of the AGM ones. Improve acceleration, braking, cornering and mileage in one move!

I weighed it. 48lbs.
 
I don't know what kind of aH you need, but I would look closely at the batteries Harley's and chop's use. Those engines are HUGE and run high compressions. Me? I'm going to run an Odyssey battery. Not cheap, but light.

--Chris
 
As much abuse mine gets, heat, slow discharge to dead (still need to source the voltage to the fuel gauge in key off problem lazy!). I just bought the smallest cheapest battery I could find It lasted lasted 5 years till it died. Hate to say it..... Bought it at wallmart! I was so embarrassed I pulled all the labels off and cut the carrying handle off.
35 dollars and 5 years thats a good deal in my book. It's pretty darn small too.
 
I think that with a 48 pound battery you should be able to DRIVE on it and have an electric Spridget!
All kidding aside I do believe that my battery (generic autoparts store brand) only weighs about 25 pounds (type 27F) and works fine, even if it is a bear to install/remove due to weird location.
Bill
 
I wonder if a motorcycle battery would work. I have one sitting here, might still be good....yeah, location, the engineers were trying to get that LUG in the middle of the car no doubt, otherwise it'd tip onto it's bumper! zoinks!
I had my kids help me take the bonnet off, that makes battery extraction easier NO WAY I could have got that 48 pounder out with the hood on heater box in! I really should put something else in there......
 
I saw somewhere...maybe here, someone had relocated the battery to the trunk, then used the battery shelf to place a nice poly toolbox..seems like a good trade if your toolbox is less than the weight of the battery!
 
jvandyke said:
I wonder if a motorcycle battery would work.
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Isn't motorcycle 6 volts? - 2 in series?
 
JPSmit said:
Isn't motorcycle 6 volts? - 2 in series?
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All the bikes I've had have been 12v. I just happen to have a couple (probably fried by now) bike batteries sitting around, I'm not quite sure I need to go buy a new battery just to save some weight, (when it goes bad, then for sure I'll get a "smart" one).
This one looks pretty new. I just couldn't get over how much it weighed given the car it came from.
 
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