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Originally posted by waggy73:
Don't ask me how I know. 
Someone has a bump in their hood...
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Originally posted by posthuman63t:
Originally posted by waggy73:
Don't ask me how I know.
Someone has a bump in their hood...
I had one on my stock SE hood from the yellow top. Ended up getting a CF hood anyways and fixing the problem!
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Originally posted by skrilla187:
Originally posted by posthuman63t:
Originally posted by waggy73:
Don't ask me how I know.
Someone has a bump in their hood...
I had one on my stock SE hood from the yellow top. Ended up getting a CF hood anyways and fixing the problem!
Add me to the bump in the hood list, on my SE, still there!
I don't "mod" I just fix what breaks!
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Originally posted by waggy73:
FYI, the Red Top is classified as a "Starting Battery", which means it has more Cold Cranking Amps, and it is not designed to be constantly drained and recharged like a deep cycle.
The Yellow Top is a "Deep Cycle", with less CCA's, but can discharge and recharge with little to no ill affects.
The Blue Top is a hybrid of sorts, more CCA's than the Yellow, less than the Red, but is also a Deep Cycle battery like the Yellow. Kind of the best of both worlds. They are also the most expensive if I remember correctly.
Yellow Tops are also the hybrid you speak of.
The cheap Blue Top, 34M, has the same specs as the 34/34R Red Top, and is just a starting (not deep cycle). The other 2 Blue Tops (D34M and D31M) are deep cycle and starting.
Starting batteries:
34/34R Red Top: 800CCA, 1000CA, 110 reserve
34M Blue Top: 800CCA, 1000CA, 110 reserve
Starting and deep cycle:
D34/78 Yellow Top: 750CCA, 870CA, 120 reserve
D31M Blue Top: 900CCA, 1125CA, 155 reserve
Note that I only listed the best of each. The Blue Tops are still the best, though.
The threaded terminals might be handy if you like to remove your trunk setup a lot. Well, if your battery was in the trunk!
Blue Top:
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My current battery (no trimming required!):
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Originally posted by posthuman63t:
Other guys put it in the trunk on the passinger side of the car to help offset the weight of the driver.
What  How much do the drivers weight? I have never heard of that before. Either the battery is very very heavy or the driver doesn't weight much at all.
[knocking on wood] Im still on my original car battery gulp!
Knowing my luck, im going to go outside right now and my car wont start!
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Its obviously not the same weight of the driver, but it helps offset it some.
Batteries arent that light.
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Originally posted by KingpinSVT:
Batteries arent that light.
true, they are not light but to off set a driver I guess every little bit helps.
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Originally posted by jtour:
Originally posted by posthuman63t:
Other guys put it in the trunk on the passinger side of the car to help offset the weight of the driver.
What How much do the drivers weight? I have never heard of that before. Either the battery is very very heavy or the driver doesn't weight much at all.
[knocking on wood] Im still on my original car battery gulp!
Knowing my luck, im going to go outside right now and my car wont start!
haha! I didn't mean it evens out the weight! It just helps...a 160lb driver with another 25lbs (i never weighed a bat) to one side vs that 25lbs on the other side making it equivelant to a 135 lb driver. Sorta get what I can't explain...hehe.
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