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I'd hate to ask a stupid or otherwise obvious question, but why are you relocatting
your battery anyways ? Are you prep'ing up for a turbo or supercharger kit ?

Tim

Either making room for forced induction, or just for better weight distribution. Our cars are nose heavy, and left-biased. Note that in the right-hand drive version, the engine bay looks the same, but in our cars the driver and 60 lb battery sit on the same side of the car. You can feel a difference on the autocross course between hard left turns and hard right turns.

A bit like flying a Sopwith Camel.

i was relocating the battery to free up some space under the hood. I was getting to much heat soak, so I removed the battery and the battery bracket(which was a pain in the ass), now the filter breathes a how lot better. i also ripped out the old tubing that was in the fender from the airbox. Then i cut a hole in the upper front of the wheel well (its not noticable unless you look up in the well) This allows air from the engine bay to get suck out through that hole in the inner fender from the old airbox and out through the wheel well where i cut the hole, it getts sucked by outside air passing the wheel well creating suction. maybe it is just me but i noticed a diffrence. A lot less hot air is being sucked in through the filter.

Originally posted by RogerB:

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A bit like flying a Sopwith Camel.

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Wasn't the Sopwith Snipe a little worse?

Well, you've stumped me there.

But nice to know someone else gets what I'm talking about.

Of the Camel, it was said

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"A great number of trainee pilots had been killed learning to fly this machine, as its tricks took some learning, although
they were really simple to overcome. Its main trouble was that owing to its very small wingspan, and its purposely
unstable characteristics, coupled with the gyroscopic effect of a rotating engine and propeller, it flipped into a spin very
easily at low speeds. Consequently, in landing and taking off, a tremendous number of fatal accidents occurred, and a
general felling of dislike for the machine was prevalent. It really had people frightened." Arthur Cobby

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Of the Snipe, however,

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A descendant of the Sopwith Camel, the Sopwith Snipe was equipped with a more powerful engine and provided better
visibility from the cockpit. Though not much faster than the Camel, the Snipe had a better rate of climb and pilots found it
much easier to fly.

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Source: The Aerodrome