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Puchasing Battery Tomorrow...Which One?
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Safety Car
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Puchasing Battery Tomorrow...Which One?
I'm hoping to fire up and drive my Corvette for the first time in about a year and a half this weekend. The battery is dead so I am going to be buying a new one. I'm going to purchase a yellow top Optima battery with around 800. Does this seem like a good choice or does anybody have any other recommendations?
For the record I am going to find an old distributor to use to prime the motor prior to firing it up.
For the record I am going to find an old distributor to use to prime the motor prior to firing it up.
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From: Pettis Performance 565 with two stages of Nitrous Supply nitrous 1.082, 4.61 at 155, 7.17 at 192
I use the yellow top for my race car. The red top is probably better for street use, that being said I doubt it will matter.
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Everyone's always raving about those gel batteries but there's a big drawback (also a lot of advantages), if you overcharge them they will pop a safety valve and H2 gas will escape however there's no way to fill it back up with Q2, it'll be junk. Expensive junk.
Last edited by V-Twin; Apr 19, 2007 at 06:24 PM.
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You can get the Optima's through Interstate. I've been running the same Red Top in my jeep for 5 years now without any problems. It will sit unused for months at a time, see hard winching sessions, high underhood temps, and rollovers. Never a problem. I'd buy another without a second thought. The yellow tops are more for deep cycle use.
