Battery mods?

[Type-R]

Got a smaller battery installed today with 2year guarantee for my k11. If some people remember i had a whooping 870 amp battery, it was for a diesel truck and was heavy and massive and bigtime overkill, but i had that for when i was running my juicy 1000w RMS amp.

as for now got a standard sized smaller battery pretty happy with it at the moment, looks out of balance with engine bay any ideas on makin it look better?

i was thinking of sprayin it black but dnt no whether spray will stay on the surface any ideas?

 

[Alienfish360]

just leave it

 

[Fordy]

make a battery box?

 

[wilsonian]

make a battery box?

Good idea, get a polish alu case made up

You could always relocate your battery to the boot and stick a turbo in it's place

 

[Type-R]

also this guy who installed the battery was bedazzaled by the micra, he told me that the crank should be changed for a steel one as the cast iron one is going to break soon because he can hear it knocking....

i was like OK.... if you say so mate....... i told him about micras being able to run on 8psi without internal mods.... he said well thats good for them.....

do we have cast iron cranks? or steel ones?

 

[Fordy]

i would of thought steel

 

[wilsonian]

i would have thought steel too considering it's alu block

 

[Alienfish360]

the knocking he can hear is probably the timing chain lol.

Remember if you use a battery box, make sure your style of battery doesn't need venting.

 

[Type-R]

there isnt a knocking noise he didnt know what he was chatting about

 

[Ed]

The crank is cast. Its not steel by steel he means machined billet - expensive stuff on a mass production car. Standard crank can take 200bhp+ so i wouldn't worry. RPM is more of a killer than turbo anyway, and we all know they can be made to rev stupidly high.

Basically you must remember that fitting a turbo/supercharger adds very little relative stress compared to what the conrod/crankshaft experiences anyway, for example making it rev another 1500-2000 rpm would place more stress on the crank than say a turbo at 1 bar + iirc.

 

[hughes_16v]

type-R was there a funny smell when he was talking?

 

[whipit]

Went slightly off topic?? Back to the battery, ever though about putting it in boot? thats my next mod!

 

[JamieGti]

Went slightly off topic?? Back to the battery, ever though about putting it in boot? thats my next mod!

I like that idea! ^