Thread: Battery Woes

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Originally Posted by robot

When I bought my Odyssey batteries, the dealer said the 925 was the minimum size to reliably start a SBC so I went with the
PC1200. Have bought perhaps 10 or 12 of them and they all work great. Perhaps such is the problem.

That's good to know, for sure. The guys at XS Power told me when I was originally shopping that the 680 worked fine for most small block applications, that they had a bunch of them out there, but the other day when we were talking about the problems a different guy asked if I could maybe put two of them in parallel. The answer is "no", but I can make a 925/975 fit, and it looks like I might even squeeze a 1200 into the available space with a little "vanity shield" to hide it a bit. Thanks for your input, Robot!!

Originally Posted by sg4356

I have the same battery mr. spears I have no problems at all. I do use welding cable thru out the car. I sure do like my little battery

Dennie, that's good to know, too. So maybe my little battery is just a weak one, and it will work OK. The only difference I see is my EFI, and the need for power to fire the injectors during crank. I just learned yesterday that my injectors fire in batch mode during crank, so it firing them all simultaneously which adds to the power requirement.