View Poll Results: Best option for street/strip
Lightweight (hawker) in stock location
29
59.18%
Relocate the battery to the trunk
20
40.82%
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Lightweight vs. Battery relocation
09-26-2006, 02:00 PM
#1
Lightweight vs. Battery relocation What would you guys recomend for a street/strip car? I'm concerned w/ starting problems w/ the hawker battery, and I don't really like the idea of adding 20 lbs of a cable when I'm really trying to remove weight from the car.
Will the hawker have problems sitting for a week or so between starts?
Will the hawker have problems sitting for a week or so between starts?
09-26-2006, 02:44 PM
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Damn Craig i dont know.... the whole cable thing really adds some weight but ya also have to add a Battery cutoff to the back of the car also..... i just turn my switch off when im not driving the car..... did that for almost a month and she fired on the 1st try after that... thats my side of it.... if your trying to get the weight out of her id say go lighter up front and then save for a K-member.
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09-26-2006, 02:52 PM
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i say battery in the back, that damn stock battery tray sucks and tech will bust your ***** about it at our track atleast and like said above it looks a lot cooler
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09-26-2006, 03:38 PM
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If you don't need the room under the hood I would put a light weight battery up front. No cable relocations or kill switch to deal with. Just make up a strap for the new battery and off you go. 
You also have to consider that a 13lbs battery like the PC680 may give you problems when mounted in the rear. You may have to go with something like the 25lbs PC925, plus the weight of cables and the kill switch. It's nice having remote terminals out back though.
You also have to consider that a 13lbs battery like the PC680 may give you problems when mounted in the rear. You may have to go with something like the 25lbs PC925, plus the weight of cables and the kill switch. It's nice having remote terminals out back though.
09-26-2006, 05:04 PM
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Originally Posted by GM Muscle
You also have to consider that a 13lbs battery like the PC680 may give you problems when mounted in the rear.
I was assuming I'd have to use a full size battery in the trunk, I'd never even thought of a smaller one out back.
I'm leaning towards keeping it in the stock location for now at least. The only big plus for me in the back would be clearing up some space for a stand alone fuel cell, but I shouldn't be neeeding that for quite a while.
09-27-2006, 12:06 AM
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I have the PC680 in the stock location and it does fine. Started right up after a month det to San Diego with no troubles. I say drop the weight and go with the PC680.
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09-28-2006, 11:10 AM
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I just put a oddysey pc680 in my car, it cranks a high compression 402 over no problem, I'd just keep a batery tender on teh car when it's not running for safety.. can't hurt. A simple strap of alum, attached with thefactory bolt and a single good sized sheet metal screw on the front radiator support on top of the battery is all I did, and it's in tight. I positioned the strap so it sits between the ribs on the battery case, it holds it in real tight that way. I also made a slight notch to the plastic on the top for the strap to sit down in the groove the whole lenth of the battery, I'm 275 and I can pull on it HARD and it doesn't move, and it's sitting on top of the factory tray... I'd go that route.
09-28-2006, 12:55 PM
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I voted to put out back. But then I read its a street strip and I would say just go light up front. I am finally moving to back but It has to be to meet safety regulations. 10.99 or quicker requires battery kill switch and if you have to do that you might as well put it in the back.
09-28-2006, 03:25 PM
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Originally Posted by stealth71
Anyone using batteries from Braille: http://www.brailleauto.com/
09-28-2006, 03:31 PM
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Originally Posted by Shon Herron
$75 off the battery tells me that they dont sale to many to the cheap bastards, you can have the PC680 shipped to your door for $75.
