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Originally Posted by Robert986
I´m trying to put my Box on a diet, without sacrifying to much of the streetability (is that a word btw?). I use it as a Daily driver, but also take it to the track.
My present battery is 42 Pounds, and as we all know placed high in the car.. Would love to address this somehow.
I have looked into standard "racing batterys" Braille, Odyssey etc, but so far not found anything that feels right. So I started to look at Lithium batterys, that give a bit more drastic weight reduction, but they are quite exepensive..
Came across this: Lithium starting battery lightweight racing The first one I found with more reasonable prices, but would it really work?
Any thoughts? |
I ran a 5lb Shorai LI battery in my Boxster for a few years.
The plusses: 5lb weight, fit in the tray fine with a custom aluminum bracket, good starting power when new.
The minuses: Very limited reserve power. Requires a very specific charger/maintainer to keep it healthy and it needs to be hooked up whenever the car is parked in the garage. May not work in very cold climates. If you use the wrong charger/maintainer or let it go flat once or twice, it will become damaged and no longer start your car.
It was effective as a track car battery but maybe too sensitive for a daily driven street car. I did have to push start several times after I abused the battery with a standard maintainer so my current car has a full size battery.