new battery?

by **jephry2000** » Sun Aug 17, 2003 5:53 pm

Alright guys, you have never let me done before so here goes....I pushing about a thousand watts and my battery keeps dying..I'm thinking I need a new alternator,but I might be ablle to save money if I take the stock battery out and put a new battery in....What do you guys think? If you have any other options let me know, or tell me what type of batterys you have.....I'm thinking about the die hard gold.....

Thanks a lot....
jeph

by **Peter** » Sun Aug 17, 2003 6:54 pm

i suggest the optima yellowtop. most people get it, and its a great battery.

by **krawzyazn** » Sun Aug 17, 2003 7:32 pm

optima yellow or blue either or

by **impactX** » Sun Aug 17, 2003 9:24 pm

Optima = thumbs up... weight saving is a bonus.

by **HKSV6SLE** » Mon Aug 18, 2003 11:22 am

if you're pushing that much power your alternator should be fine, but im assuming that your pushing subs with that much power. if you do that on your stock batery eventually it's gonna die from frequent discharging or going down in voltage, my stock battery died even after a few months of running my subs and with two capacitatotrs keeping the battery charged. swtich it too an optima blue top or yellow top, but be careful because the posts on those batteries are reversed, so you're gonna need to run new wires....if you don't want to do that get an interstate megatron plus, the cold start battery....that one is running my audio stuff fine...

Website · by **kondo** » Mon Aug 18, 2003 2:12 pm

I use a SVR gell cell battery that I got from audio sports in folsom. I ran about 1000 watts on my stock battery on my last car a 96 avalon and the batter started to grow so much corrosion that I had to replace the wiring and the guys at auido sports took pictures of my battery and put them on the wall to show people why acid batteries suck. Go with a gell cell I recomend the SVR. The best part is you can run it dead recharge it and its as good as new.

Nick

by **c2g** » Tue Aug 19, 2003 8:15 am

has anyone here put a blue top in i was thinking of doing it soon but wasnt sure if it fit and worked alright

by **HKSV6SLE** » Tue Aug 19, 2003 9:08 am

the blue top optima..i think group 34..size will fit in the stock slot but it will be a bit smaller....but the terminals for the battery on on the bottom of the battery so your stock terminals will not reach it....unless you modify the terminals...i don't know how hard that is to do...i tried, and it didn't work so i got an interstate cold weather battery instead.,...

by **jephry2000** » Tue Aug 19, 2003 11:41 am

Where would you buy a optima battery?

by **jephry2000** » Tue Aug 19, 2003 11:50 am

Any of you guys have prices for the batteries and how much to install?

by **c2g** » Tue Aug 19, 2003 1:55 pm

sears sells them but i was gonna get mine through work

by **Peter** » Tue Aug 19, 2003 2:50 pm

ebay for about 100 and install you could do urself.

by **jephry2000** » Tue Aug 19, 2003 3:17 pm

ok, I called a couple of dealerships and they have them...I'm confused because they say all i have to do is take my old battery out and put the new one in.....In someof the old post you guys talk about new wires and and things being in reverse. Am I confused?/????

by **HKSV6SLE** » Tue Aug 19, 2003 5:44 pm

costco sells the optima blue top for pretty cheap....i'll try and take some pictures of the posts....if you look at the stock battery the posts for positive and negative are on top of the battery....the optimas posts are on the bottom of the battery....so..they are in effect reveresed....so.....but yea installing it should be easy.....plus the blue top has extra posts....to hook up extra things...(aduio cables...etc...)

by **jephry2000** » Tue Aug 19, 2003 8:52 pm

yeah, I'm probably going to get a yellow top........

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