Best battery for relocation
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Pro
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From: Gambrills MD
Best battery for relocation
Hey guys going to be moving my battery to the rear of my c6 to make room for my nitrous stand alone. What's the best battery to fit this location? Daily driver
Burning Brakes
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From: HOMESTEAD FL
On the 2011 GS the battery is located in the right side (passengers) rear corner... They may have moved it to make room for the dry sump oil tank since thats where your battery appears to be.
So if you have TWO storage boxes in the trunk... then the passengers side would be where they put it in the GS because I only have one storage box on the drivers side with the battery on the passengers side...<--- does this make since or did I just make it confusing? LOL
SPEED SAFE, NICK
Last edited by AIR_RAM; Jun 22, 2014 at 10:14 AM.
Instructor
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Unless you keep the original battery and buy a sealed/vented battery box since regular batteries have fumes while in operation... Plus it'll be track legal this way
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Burning Brakes
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From: Lynchburg VA
Battery all ready in the back
I thought all the batteries in the C6 where already in the back..? Perhaps this is not the case... (Just did some searching and learned something new...)
On the 2011 GS the battery is located in the right side (passengers) rear corner... They may have moved it to make room for the dry sump oil tank since thats where your battery appears to be.
So if you have TWO storage boxes in the trunk... then the passengers side would be where they put it in the GS because I only have one storage box on the drivers side with the battery on the passengers side...<--- does this make since or did I just make it confusing? LOL
SPEED SAFE, NICK
On the 2011 GS the battery is located in the right side (passengers) rear corner... They may have moved it to make room for the dry sump oil tank since thats where your battery appears to be.
So if you have TWO storage boxes in the trunk... then the passengers side would be where they put it in the GS because I only have one storage box on the drivers side with the battery on the passengers side...<--- does this make since or did I just make it confusing? LOL
SPEED SAFE, NICK
The battery is only in the passenger side storage box on Corvettes with Dry Sump Engines: Grand Sports with MZ6 manual transmission, all Z06, and all ZR1s. Yes the original battery location is where the Dry Sump is on these cars. It is also to help in lateral CG. Grand Sports with the A6 Transmission, the battery is still under the hood.
There is probably some modifications to the Storage bin required not to just slap a battery back there. I know that my Base 06 passenger side storage bin looks completely different than my Grand Sport 13's with Dry Sump.
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Drifting
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From: DELRAY BEACH FLORIDA
St. Jude Donor '10-'13
The Braille 21lb batterry fits without any problem and has the capacity to power a Corvette. The smaller Braill 17lb battery would also work but may not have the power to run a daily driver without some issues.
