Lightweight Porsche Battery

Now another way to get rid of some unneeded weight on your Corvette. The new Porsche Boxter Spyder has a light weight lithium battery. The lead acid battery for the car weighs 35 pounds. The lithium ion battery option weighs 13 pounds. It's also a whole lot smaller and supposedly will have a much longer lifetime than that old lead acid battery. But if you're going to buy one of these batteries with a check, get ready to write some "0's." They're $1700.

If you wanted to use this battery to crank your high compresssion BB, maybe you'd two of these batteries in parallel?

Woopie doo, for a street car that maybe see an occasional track...that is just flat stupid money waste....

NOW for a balls out racer, it's a natural.....

methinks we can go to Home Despot and buy a bunch of batteries and hook them up as needed for maybe 300 bux...or less....


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mrvette said:

Woopie doo, for a street car that maybe see an occasional track...that is just flat stupid money waste....


methinks we can go to Home Despot and buy a bunch of batteries and hook them up as needed for maybe 300 bux...or less....

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(1) "flat stupid money waste" Comment: in forum posts you can read about people buying titanium brake rotors for their C3's. Probably in the same league as buying lithium batteries. One difference is that titanium rotors have a big salvage value.

(2) "buy a bunch of batteries" I think that some of the experimental lithium battery cars, and an experimental lithium battery powered bonneville motorcycle, is that they were powered by commercial AA lithium batteries; I think one vehicle had 3000 of these little suckers. The AA lithium batteries are expensive, but they do have a tremendous power output.

There are more drawbacks, below 0^ C you have to use a different battery, the ultra light one will not be able to crank your car.

The Ti rotors may sound like a joke, they are not.