Moving the Battery

[tvr_griff_4000]

Finding it difficult sitting on the passenger side (6' 4" and 19st). Has anybody moved the battery, how, where, etc?

Know it can be done in a Chimera, where it can be put in the boot,but the Griff is smaller in that Dept so not sure if it will go?

Richard

[simpo one]

Hello RW! First, hog the driving yourself, which avoids the problem. If that fails, putting the battery in the boot means you can kiss goodbye to any chance of ever fitting the roof in again. What about setting it into the nearside wing (like Cerberas I think)? Technically you'll mess up the C of G, though it's not much in the scheme of things compared to passengers and luggage.

[rev-erend]

You could try one of those racing batterys -
they are much smaller but expensive (£140)...
would get you a few more inches of leg room !!

[jamer]

In the past i have had batteries fitted in the boot and it usually goes where the Cd Chnager would fit above the Tank, this is where the factory recomended it to be put when the last one I had done was finished 1999 (It was on a Chimaera and we needed to get some more carpet for the passenger footwell as well, I seem to rememeber the customer paying around £700 for the whole job)

Hope that helps

[beano500]

James, do you mean "above" the tank?

Wouldn't have thought there was room - not without a boot "bulge"...

(...and golf clubs)

[rev-erend]

Check these out !

www.merlinmotorsport.co.uk/catalogue/batteries.htm

Very small and lite !

[beano500]

"...designed for situations where extreme shock and vibration are experienced"

That's TVRs then (how do they know about my driving?)

[shpub]

rev-erend said:

You could try one of those racing batterys - they are much smaller but expensive (£140)... would get you a few more inches of leg room !!

These are the DTS Red Top racing gel batteries. I have these in the 520 and they are great. Just one small problem... they do not like small current drain so leaving them connected in the car with the alarm energised kills them in about 24-48 hours, even with a battery conditioner hooked up. The capacity is not brilliant either compared to an normal battery so running with everything on for a long time can flatten them PDQ. I use two in parallel to get to the circuit and then remove one for competition.

Steve
www.tvrbooks.co.uk

[rev-erend]

Hmmm .. not so good.

I saw them fitted to an Ultima - so thought
they might fit the bill but they sound impractical
for a road car !

[andyvg]

Bringing practicality into the conversation, but presumably even if you moved the battery you would also need to move the ECU and then protect the fusebox and the heater mechanism? - which would take up most of the space that the battery left?

and given that most 6' tall persons don't have small feet I can't see it being a major gain.