Braille lightweight glass mat battery install pic plus a battery install tip
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Braille lightweight glass mat battery install pic plus a battery install tip
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installed a 15 lb braille a few days ago. pretty straight forward. you can easily do this with their mount pictured or a genaric j-hook mount. their mount is mounted to the plastic tray with 6 self tapping screws. seems very sturdy. the plastic mount is some sort of composite and works well as it's thick (thicker than you'd imagine it to be). I just zip tied the distribution block to the mount pole.
here's the tip. see that 9 volt battery resting on my intake hose? you can wire it up to hold your radio and clock settings before you disconnect your battery for the swap, just solder some wires in. i don't know my radio code as my car was used. it
worked really well though.
braille starts the car like a champ. it's supposed to be ample for cold climates as it's the all weather model. mine tested out at 685 CA before it left the factory. CCA is 425 AT MINIMUM. mine could be more as CA was 110 above normal.
the rumour is these batteries are just Deka batteries 3x as expensive. however the deka's specs were different and i think the braille's 2 year warranty is longer than deka's. while they are pricey they gave me the 80 dollar alloy mount for 14 as they made a pricing mistake...whoops. so i didn't mind the price difference that much. next time i will try out a deka for roughly $60-80
turn in has improved nicely from the weight reduction in such a critical spot. make sure to use loctite on the post...
glass mat rocks! the white whale comes with one stock IIRC.
installed a 15 lb braille a few days ago. pretty straight forward. you can easily do this with their mount pictured or a genaric j-hook mount. their mount is mounted to the plastic tray with 6 self tapping screws. seems very sturdy. the plastic mount is some sort of composite and works well as it's thick (thicker than you'd imagine it to be). I just zip tied the distribution block to the mount pole.
here's the tip. see that 9 volt battery resting on my intake hose? you can wire it up to hold your radio and clock settings before you disconnect your battery for the swap, just solder some wires in. i don't know my radio code as my car was used. it
worked really well though.
braille starts the car like a champ. it's supposed to be ample for cold climates as it's the all weather model. mine tested out at 685 CA before it left the factory. CCA is 425 AT MINIMUM. mine could be more as CA was 110 above normal.
the rumour is these batteries are just Deka batteries 3x as expensive. however the deka's specs were different and i think the braille's 2 year warranty is longer than deka's. while they are pricey they gave me the 80 dollar alloy mount for 14 as they made a pricing mistake...whoops. so i didn't mind the price difference that much. next time i will try out a deka for roughly $60-80
turn in has improved nicely from the weight reduction in such a critical spot. make sure to use loctite on the post...
glass mat rocks! the white whale comes with one stock IIRC.
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Nice mod. If battery was rotated 90 degrees (toward rear), there would be room to route
a full sized intake pipe from the driver side intercooler and eliminate the restrictive pancake MAP pipe. I believe that 42DD sells MAP sensor plates that can be welded onto steel or aluminum pipes.
Anyone tried this yet?
P.S. I need to disconnect battery and do not know my radio code. It is supposed to be marked somewhere in trunk. Anyone have a photo of this?
Hope your battery lasts a long time.
Anyone tried this yet?
P.S. I need to disconnect battery and do not know my radio code. It is supposed to be marked somewhere in trunk. Anyone have a photo of this?
Hope your battery lasts a long time.
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there's supposed to be a sticker in the spare tire well... >>
mine doesn't have one so I've never seen it. Strangely, I've had my battery disconnected for up to 15 mins, and my radio out of the car for up to a half-hour, and it never went into SAFE mode or even lost its presets. Go figure.
~john
~john
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