braille battery

[XDevolution]

I'm looking at these lightweight batteries from braille and its hard to understand and choose which one is best for the car. i've tried to match up the specifications from the oem battery to a braille battery and none some to match up. How do you know which one to is best suitable for the car? and what info do you really need to look for..ex. cold cranking amps, pulse cranking amps?

[DeadCannon]

I don't remember the specifics of the battery. Let me look up what my friend used in his 06 xB. I know it's not a Braille but it's the company that produces the batteries for Braille.

[DeadCannon]

Deka ETX18L

http://www.clubxb.com/forums/f5/codys-bagged-box-day-0-now-26697-13.html

[CXTKRS1]

If you don't need an AGM battery (inside vehicle mount) then I recommend a high level U1 series lawn motor battery, specs are about the same if not better then the 18L group size and will cost roughly fifty percent less. Just curious but why do you want to switch to a smaller battery?

[XDevolution]

our stock battery weighs 42 lbs. since the performance market is weak for our cars im looking to reduce body weight. I talked to a a buddy of mine who is a car guru and he gave me a ratio of
Weight loss to Horsepower. he said approximately for every 22.6 lbs that is shed on the weight of the car its the equivalent of gaining 1.1 HP. So in addition to adding peformance parts i wanted to lighten the weight of the car. Easiest way to feel a difference in performance for our car is remove anything not in use. my back seats, the spare tire and any compartments that arnt needed are going to go. that should remove roughly 150 lbs. Thats why i want a lightweight battery lol

[XDevolution]

I just wanted to know does it matter what carnking amps the battery has, people are apparently running lower cold cranking amps and seem to have no problems. but whats a safe range? ex 550-650 cca?

[CXTKRS1]

I just wanted to know does it matter what carnking amps the battery has, people are apparently running lower cold cranking amps and seem to have no problems. but whats a safe range? ex 550-650 cca?

Probably only takes 40-60 amps to actually turn the car over. Not sure about the stock battery but a group 35 battery (our group size) usually has around 600 CCA so you could use that as a bench mark. A 300 CCA battery would work but expect the battery to have a short life and it will have very little reserve capacity when compared to an automotive battery. Honestly IMO it is not worth the weight savings to put a weak battery in a car and you end up getting stuck somewhere.

[XDevolution]

im not gonna go super small jus looking for a rough estimate, a 15lb battery from braille seems pretty good

[ThisorThatxD]

are you running anything else on the battery besides stock stuff? for example, additional audio. just curious how this works out for you.

[Resolve]

are you running anything else on the battery besides stock stuff? for example, additional audio. just curious how this works out for you.I hope he is not running additional audio if this worried about losing weight to go faster. lol

[ThisorThatxD]

I hope he is not running additional audio if this worried about losing weight to go faster. lol

good point, but sometimes people are silly like that, lol.

[XDevolution]

Nope nothing at all, everything is stock, the only mod i have done that includes electricity is my HID's and all i have is a low beam kit. Nothing is connected to a battery.

[CXTKRS1]

im not gonna go super small jus looking for a rough estimate, a 15lb battery from braille seems pretty good

Then I would look into a groups 51 battery (model the older Civics use), it is lighter then a group 35 and should still have around 450 CCA.

[SilvaHatch]

+my input,

xd =/= race car

stick to stock battery
enjoy stock peppyness

gutted interior + lightweight battery =/= cool or efficient.

enjoy modified grocery getter status
enjoy good mpg in 3.50-5.00 gas economy

????????
profit?

:up:

[CXTKRS1]

+my input,

xd =/= race car

stick to stock battery
enjoy stock peppyness

gutted interior + lightweight battery =/= cool or efficient.

enjoy modified grocery getter status
enjoy good mpg in 3.50-5.00 gas economy

????????
profit?

:up:

I preach that every time I can lol.

[SilvaHatch]

dont get me wrong,

batteries like that have their place, but its for race cars, or the guys that autocross religiously and are trying to shave 10ths off of their track times, not for the casual 4x/year autocrosser or the hilly backroad adventurer.

just stick to what you got, or spend a few bucks on underdrive/electronic throttle controller/intake/exhaust and have fun with it.

my .02

[SilvaHatch]

Edit: double post, yay scikotics for going down as I submit posts

[CXTKRS1]

dont get me wrong,

batteries like that have their place, but its for race cars, or the guys that autocross religiously and are trying to shave 10ths off of their track times, not for the casual 4x/year autocrosser or the hilly backroad adventurer.

just stick to what you got, or spend a few bucks on underdrive/electronic throttle controller/intake/exhaust and have fun with it.

my .02

I agree even when my friends would run their SS's on the track (these were pretty much street legal race cars) they would only run their light weight batteries once they got to the track. IMO it just leaves to much to chance if you run such a small battery in a daily driver.