Originally Posted by racerx
Originally Posted by AndyF
I used a small racing battery in my Duster and built a small tray for it that mounted in roughly the stock location. I decided that it made a lot more sense to put a small battery up front than a regular battery in the trunk. When you weigh all the extra cables, switches and stuff it works out to be less weight to have a small battery up front.

Andy what's the compression on that engine, is that a Braille 15/18 battery? I know you no longer have the car, but how was it holding up?


It was a 10:1 512. I don't remember the part number on the battery but it worked just fine. Only issue was that you needed to let the alternator charge the battery before you turned it off and restarted again. Which typically is no problem but you wouldn't want to start the engine, move the car a few feet, start the engine move the car a few feet kind of thing since you could eventually drain it.