[Vwdiesel] Speaking of Batteries
Dave Cook
davevw at yahoo.com
Tue Jan 17 07:25:32 PST 2012
As I am sure I have mentioned, I am working towards putting a TDI motor into my '78 Bus.
Since I want to attempt to put the radiators on the sides of the engine compartment, I am going to have to move the batteries. For those unfamiliar, the bus' batteries are on either side of the engine compartment. If I put the radiators there, they would block the air flow, and be inaccessible.
Under the back seat seems most logical.
This bus is a camper, and has two batteries, a starting battery and a "house" battery for the refrigerator and a couple other accessories. I plan to maintain this setup.
Since they will be in the cabin, I want to use Optima batteries. They have three options: Primarily starting (red top), primarily deep cycle (blue top) and a combo (yellow top). I bought a yellow top for our boat a couple years ago and it seemed to provide both very good starting power and the ability to keep the radio on for an hour at least. I also swapped this battery into the Banana Rabbit while I was driving it. It provided quick cranking in that application too (though this was mostly summer time conditions).
So anyone have any recommendations on what to use? A red and a blue? Two yellows? Some other combination?
Dave Cook
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