It's funny how this thread comes back here and elsewhere . . . there must be a continuing theme. For those fighting the weight of a battery in a car that actually gets used, like Bob's Pantera, consider what I did: Go to O'Reilly or Autozone and buy a 300 CCA quad/motorcycle battery (about $100.00). It's like 10 or 12 pounds; you can play hot potato with it. You just have to make a holder, which I did with some 16-gauge sheet (and some bolts and rivet nuts) I had leaning against a wall . . .
My Falcon has had one of these in it for some time now, and it never lost a charge through all the fun of getting the LS fired and running through the initial stages, which were many months and a couple track days ago. This is by no means an idea original to my car. Get creative, people. Check the pics of my crud to steal an idea that has worked quite nicely (with weight displacement benefits). For scale, that's only a 12" rotor.
Last edited by rustomatic; 06-10-2018 at 06:15 PM.
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