When it was legal to do so, I ran a motorcycle battery in my Colt
Turbo. Although only used during competition season, I left it in
100% of the time between April and Oct. and never had a problem.
The car was also driven at the time for commuting 85 - 100 miles/day.
Used it two seasons, until it was outlawed. I had a nice molded
mount for it too... :-p
Alan
> Gary M wrote:
> The only problem turned out to be battery life, and it seems to be caused
> by
> the
> charging system....
> The small plates in the lawn tractor battery just can't take it, and it
> failed in less than a
> race season.
>
>
> We ran tractor batteries in a DSP Fiat for several years. Aside from short
> overall life, we often ran out of juice at events thus perpetuating many
> Italian car stereotypes:)
> When we when back to even the smallest actual automotive battery(Miata
> sized) all those problems went away.
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