Anyone know why 06 battery was moved
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From: Bay Shore, NY 11706 MILD2WILD (M2W)
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Anyone know why 06 battery was moved
If you look at the 05 battery it sits back against the firewall and the cables come off towards the front. Was looking at an 06 today and they changed the configuration so the cables go over the top and down between a space between the battery and firewall?
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GM was using BCI sized batteries and are converting everything to DIN batteries. Same rating from 05 to 06, just a different style. DIN is the global standard and BCI is the US standard. GM is trying to be global. Allthe new platforms will use DIN batteries as they can convert them. The Solctice (spelling is wrong) uses the goup 86 that was in the 05 Corvette. I don't know why that vehicle didn't get DIN since it was just introduced, but I guess that is why they lost $3.8B in the last quarter.
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Originally Posted by timd38
GM was using BCI sized batteries and are converting everything to DIN batteries. Same rating from 05 to 06, just a different style. DIN is the global standard and BCI is the US standard. GM is trying to be global. Allthe new platforms will use DIN batteries as they can convert them. The Solctice (spelling is wrong) uses the goup 86 that was in the 05 Corvette. I don't know why that vehicle didn't get DIN since it was just introduced, but I guess that is why they lost $3.8B in the last quarter.
Here is a picture of one.
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Originally Posted by dollarbill
I was told that it was a safety change to provide seperation and a crush zone keeping the battery and acid out of the passenger compartment. 
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Originally Posted by BLWright
I assume the optima family will still fit?!
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Originally Posted by SilverCoupe
Covette Black Book says the Z06 battery was moved even further - in a storage compartment aft of the rear wheels. Doesn't say why.
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Originally Posted by Mike Z06
True that. My Z06 has battery in back passenger corner.
i was told that the 06 batter was adjusted because the future 06 z06 would need accomidating.. Who knows if they were right 
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Originally Posted by boomer 33
If they moved it back to the back it was to change weight distribution to make the car more 50/50 balanced on weight.
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Any change in overall weight between the two batteries/types?
True, but apparently they moved it FORWARD (talking LS2 here not Z06) not back thus potentially hurting the weight distribution. 
Originally Posted by boomer 33
If they moved it back to the back it was to change weight distribution to make the car more 50/50 balanced on weight.
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Originally Posted by playadam
anyone ever thought while trying to save all of this weight....moving the battery to the back added over 5lbs from all of the damn wiring to get it back there????
But in the case of C6 Z06 I don't think the objective was quite overall weight savings as much as necessity to make room for the dry sump oil system...helping move some the weight rearward thus helping weight distribution a bit was an added benefit.
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Originally Posted by Pipedreams
If you look at the 05 battery it sits back against the firewall and the cables come off towards the front. Was looking at an 06 today and they changed the configuration so the cables go over the top and down between a space between the battery and firewall?
No C6 Corvette with it's battery cables mounted in this configuration has ever suffered an episode of DBS.
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Originally Posted by DSOM Z51
This was done to prevent DBS.
No C6 Corvette with it's battery cables mounted in this configuration has ever suffered an episode of DBS.
No C6 Corvette with it's battery cables mounted in this configuration has ever suffered an episode of DBS.
That makes more sense than anything else I have read.