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

I use a powervamp pv25 racing battery

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/

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Sorry to clarify I meant cranking capacity

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

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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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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?