Battery area storage

TheSt|G · 03-15-2015, 10:40 AM

Anyone aware of any sort of storage system available for the stock battery location? I recently relocated mine to the smugglers box and would love some sort of nice storage unit for oil and such.

dicklague · dicklague's Garage

What year? Do you have dual batteries?

TheSt|G · 03-15-2015, 11:45 AM

1985 Coupe, so a single battery, which is now in the smugglers box. I would like something in the stock location that looks good and secures a bottle or two of oil, some gloves, and perhaps some rags.

darrin · 03-15-2015, 01:00 PM

google "marine battery box" Quite a few options that might work for you

TheSt|G · 03-15-2015, 03:00 PM

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google "marine battery box" Quite a few options that might work for you

Perfect idea, thank you!

dicklague · dicklague's Garage

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Originally Posted by darrin

google "marine battery box" Quite a few options that might work for you

how about this?

http://www.summitracing.com/parts/sum-890103/overview/

or this:

http://www.summitracing.com/parts/sum-g1199-1/overview/

dicklague · dicklague's Garage

TheSt|G · 03-15-2015, 07:08 PM

Looks like I need to go do some measuring. These are excellent.

HorstP · 03-15-2015, 10:11 PM

Curious to understand why you relocated the battery. Just for looks (which I would agree cleans up the trunk)? Weight distribution wise I would think moving the battery makes things worse, not better, correct?

TheSt|G · 03-16-2015, 03:50 AM

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Curious to understand why you relocated the battery. Just for looks (which I would agree cleans up the trunk)? Weight distribution wise I would think moving the battery makes things worse, not better, correct?

Weight savings and cleaning up the trunk.

Number1_dog · 03-16-2015, 09:35 AM

I thought that moving weight towards the center did help handling.

TheSt|G · 03-16-2015, 09:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Number1_dog

I thought that moving weight towards the center did help handling.

It does. See Audi for an example of why hanging half the car over the front axle is a terrible idea.

HorstP · 03-16-2015, 10:05 PM

except we don't drive Audis. With all the weight in the back I still believe moving the battery does no support better handling. But the difference is probably small.

Number1_dog · 03-17-2015, 05:10 AM

You are probably right, remember the factory fix to the handling of early 911s was to put two weights in the front bumper to off set the rear bias.

TheSt|G · 03-17-2015, 05:18 AM

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Originally Posted by HorstP

except we don't drive Audis. With all the weight in the back I still believe moving the battery does no support better handling. But the difference is probably small.

Shrug, it's part of my comprehensive approach to remove and center the weight of the car.

Number1_dog · 03-17-2015, 05:33 AM

Please don't take offense. I'm struggling with the same dilemma on my 1979 SC. I changed to manual window cranks, all A/C components are gone (so I have an empty Smugglers box), rear seat delete (but put a 964 DAS bar in its place) lightweight carpet and am now working on a long hood fiberglass rear bumper.

TheSt|G · 03-17-2015, 08:48 AM

Manual window cranks certainly are tempting. Given how small the car is, that wouldn't be that hard to use...

All of my AC stuff is gone except the front condenser, fender mount dohicky, and some lines.

dicklague · dicklague's Garage

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Originally Posted by Number1_dog

You are probably right, remember the factory fix to the handling of early 911s was to put two weights in the front bumper to off set the rear bias.

Then they took out the weights and put 2 12v batteries wired in parallel in the far corners of the front trunk to get that weight up front as far as possible.

Moving battery weight forward is a good thing in an early 911.

dicklague · dicklague's Garage

This is another cool box from Summit and is is all aluminum for $99.00 ....pretty good deal.