Posted By: 70RR383
Battery - 05/08/16 02:31 AM
Where is the best source for a red top battery??Fred Gilmore still around???
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Posted By: moparx
Re: Battery - 05/08/16 01:32 PM
without sounding like a "negitive nancy", i'm going to say your best course of action would be to gut a correct battery for your application and install a small, yet powerful new style battery inside your old case. just getting a couple years from a correct restoration battery for the price they charge is just not worth it in my opinion. your results and opinion may [and probably will] vary.
Posted By: steve70
Re: Battery - 05/09/16 12:55 PM
I bought a couple from http://www.antiqueautobattery.com/
My yellow top is almost 6 years old and my red top is almost 5. No issues so far.
My yellow top is almost 6 years old and my red top is almost 5. No issues so far.
Posted By: Kowal
Re: Battery - 05/09/16 03:29 PM
Remy just bought Turbo-start, they will be back to offering their maintenance free batteries soon.
Any of these work great if you are disciplined to keep putting them on a maintenance type charger...I use the new 8-step CTek charger which really seems to work great. I have had resto batteries in all my cars over the years and haven't been stranded yet.
I did lose one...to a lightning strike at the house which traveled up the line of the charger and took out the battery and voltage regulator on my charger!
Any of these work great if you are disciplined to keep putting them on a maintenance type charger...I use the new 8-step CTek charger which really seems to work great. I have had resto batteries in all my cars over the years and haven't been stranded yet.
I did lose one...to a lightning strike at the house which traveled up the line of the charger and took out the battery and voltage regulator on my charger!