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New Battery
Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2012 6:55 pm
by oneinkedgeek
Just wondering what most people do in regards to the small factory battery, can you replace with a larger one ? Mines on the way out and thought I'd ask around before buying another the same size
Re: New Battery
Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2012 7:02 pm
by Sadam_Husain
yeah mate the more CCA you can get the better but you've still got the constrains of the physical size battery that'll fit into your battery box and engine bay
Re: New Battery
Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2012 8:42 pm
by Crash bandicoot
who said it needs to go in the engine bay.
Re: New Battery
Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2012 8:55 pm
by lincooln
I would do a duel battery setup. I will be doing that after summer on mine. A big one on the floor and a small one in engine bay. Or make a custom mount and wrap exhaust headers and mount on the left side.
Re: New Battery
Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2012 9:10 pm
by snotgoblin
Depends on a few things... But I agree with Sadam, more CCA the better.
My old SJ had heaps of room for a bigger battery, or even a dual battery set up.
Are you running a winch on your Zuk?
Re: New Battery
Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2012 9:59 pm
by oneinkedgeek
snotgoblin wrote:Depends on a few things... But I agree with Sadam, more CCA the better.
My old SJ had heaps of room for a bigger battery, or even a dual battery set up.
Are you running a winch on your Zuk?
No winch at the moment, I plan to get a winch bar on the front at some point and a winch later, but to start I want to mount some nice spots on the front bar and just generally have a battery with a bit of balls, rather than the pissy little factory one.
Re: New Battery
Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2012 10:37 pm
by muduki
century yuasa with more cca and youl be good as gold!!!
Re: New Battery
Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2012 4:43 pm
by Mr Zuk
I am running two large battery's i the back off my escudo, behind the seats with 70mm cable running from the engine bay to battery's, easy to do as well
Re: New Battery
Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2012 5:37 pm
by suzookyman
Mr Zuk wrote:I am running two large battery's i the back off my escudo, behind the seats with 70mm cable running from the engine bay to battery's, easy to do as well
What are they earthed to?
Re: New Battery
Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2012 6:14 pm
by Swamped
If its for an SJ you probably want to check the pissy little alternator is still doin a good job charging. Doesn't matter what cca battery you have if the alternator can't keep it topped up.
I've had batteries in a swift and a samurai i thought were on the way out and it just wasn't charging right.
Re: New Battery
Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2012 6:15 pm
by Dr_PC
I use to run an NP70 in my 413 no issues with room
Re: New Battery
Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2012 7:56 pm
by Mr Zuk
suzookyman wrote:Mr Zuk wrote:I am running two large battery's i the back off my escudo, behind the seats with 70mm cable running from the engine bay to battery's, easy to do as well
What are they earthed to?
Earthed to chase and body, put and insulated stud in and put all the power wires on that then all the negatives to body/ chase