battery

[Richard Dryden]

What size battery have people put on there sierra based builds?

[mgglep]

I use a powervamp pv25 racing battery

[The V8 Files]

Someone a little while ago recommended these to me, I've not had chance to look at them yet so cant say good/bad but apparently they come in very small sizes.

http://www.braillebattery.co.uk/

[Richard Dryden]

Sorry to clarify I meant cranking capacity

[jps]

I'm planning to use the one from the donor unless someone comes along to tell me that's a really bad idea?

[Richard Dryden]

Yeah that was my thoughts also jps, however my donor did not come with a battery so was just wondering what size to go for.

[alga]

I got a 40Ah Japanese form factor Varta, it's perfectly sufficient, cost me about 40 pounds, and weighs just 10 kilos.
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[K4KEV]

IIRC the pintos are real hungry on batts and I needed 700+ CCA to start a lowly 1.6 so choose carefully Richard.....I tend to get all of my batteries from North East Motor Salvage at Peterlee for£15-£20 and that is checked with the hot wire type testers.

[alga]

It's not like you'll ever have to start it at -15°C. And small batteries at normal temps perform like huge batteries at winter lows. IIRC Pinto's starter was 700W, not 700A. My CVH starter on a Zetec is rated at 1.2kW or 1.4kW, and I can crank for 30 secs without any sign of slowing down.

[K4KEV]

I tried several batteries in good nick from several cars including a couple of 2ltrs and I thought my starter was fubar (knackered ....for albert) and had it to bits twice to find nothing wrong.... when I checked I found all the batteries I tried were all 500 cold cranking amps or below ....when I wen to the local scrappy I asked for a sierra 1.6 battery ....off he went to check his battery chart then brought me a battery and tested it in front of me...took it home, put it on and away it went 1st turn of the key.....I am only speaking from experience.

[flyerncle]

Suggestion,put the battery in the passenger footwell behind a footrest that the passenger will thank you for as it gives something to brace yourself on if driven hard.

[robo]

Footwell is a good idea. While on the subject of batterys ,in the back of the battery book in the wholesalers is a list of all the different sizes of battery with the cca listed. I noticed that the 100 series in the yuasa measures 11"x7"x8" which has 650 cca. Thats the same output as a f@@k off great truck battery, so if space is tight its worth going to the book to see what else is about size wise.

Bob

[flyerncle]

I am not keen on something that is full of acid and fairly heavy sitting on f/glass albeit strong and well made at that height.

[deezee]

I have a little 5Kg Odyssey Battery PC545 for my car. No problems. Didn't use the car for 6 weeks and got home. Started first time (2ltr RS2000 Engine). Kit cars don't need big batteries. Its a gel battery so you can mount it any way you want and it can't leak even if you split the thing. I got mine for £55 quid off Ebay.

[alga]

Now that I think of it, my Civic's 45Ah battery (fresh) had trouble spinning Sierra's 2l Pinto engine at about 0°C. Maybe I just lucked out with a lower current CVH starter?