Vintage Empire

Who is running what?

BigBlue

I'm running batteries from o'reilly's but if I had the money I'd run optima red tops.

iker42

I heard the optimas are very life short. the only good thing is the warranty.

BigBlue

First I've heard of that one iker.

iker42

o, my brother works at pep boys who sell Optimas. not sure if there the red tops, but he says they make no money on the optimas because there always replacing them

cLAYH

I run an Optima in my Jeep as do many of my off roading buddies. Lie expactancy has not been an issue.

On my truck I cut one edge off of the battery tray and upsized the batteries to Grp31s.

merrillr4

I have the Optima D31A yellow tops. They are a little over a year old. During the recent cold snap some of my buddies trucks didn't start and mine fired right up!! I like them, there is one in my wife's Lancer and I had one in the Jeep.

zulusafari

I am curious...What is the advantage to GRP31's? I have seen them for sale in the farm stores, but all I really have determined from the local batteries is they are very heavy! Am I missing something, or am I seeing the wrong GRP31's??

sixguns

My truck has Napa batteries, Exide, I hate them stupid things leak all over the place. When I worked in the store a lot of the shops wouldn't carry them because 90% went bad.

Ram1999

Red Tops for four years now, not one problem.

Now having said that my truck more than likely will not start in the morning.

Fueling around

about 1,100 CCA and 190 minute RC
Compare to a group 27 of 750 CCA and 130 minute RC

blackdiesel

yeah, me too

Huballa68

Running deep cycle starting batteries from autozone.Had fair cca with good chariteristics for the deep cycling the intake heaters do to the batteries

cLAYH

Bigger is better!

Tate

I did the same thing as Clay. More amps, more reserve, they were cheaper than the ones that my truck was supposed to have, and they were in stock. Lots of good reasons to go to them, I thought.