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Originally Posted by EssexPorsche
I have been hoping for a battery thread....
If you are replacing, is it worth considering a lightweight battery as an option - looking at the weights the savings are quite significant?
It's something i am looking into myself.
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Look at the prices of the gt3 battery from porsche motorsports , and the offerings from Braille etc. then think about how many batteries fail at the first sighting of an English winter ......
IMHO you're better buying a bosch silver from german&swedish and using the 3 year warranty if the winter kills it .
It should be less than 100 .
If you need a lightweight battery for track days , anything that can last a day is good enough , and you can simply change it out the night before or even at the track with basic tools .
I once worked with a rally driver in Kilkenny Ireland , in the time he'd negotiated with his sponsors to get some cash to buy lightweight parts he put on about half a stone .
The moral of this story ?
There may be other/better ways of losing wieght on the car
