What's Your Favorite 16v Battery?

Ed Carpenter · 05-21-2014, 03:52 PM

Bobby I use 1 lightweight turbostart battery. It works fine but as mentioned here if you have to start it 4 or 5 times in the staging lanes it may run down some. That's why I'm always up front at least in qualifying.

Painter · 05-21-2014, 06:52 PM

My favorite 16 volt battery is the in my competitions car. Fairly good chance of failure. Anything below 12 to 1 compression will never see any performance from the extra voltage. The starter, the water pump and the fan running faster will never make a car go faster, but a bad 16 volt battery ( real common) will lose a race.

Dick Butler · 05-21-2014, 06:58 PM

We had two Turbo Start 16 in all three SS cars. Charged well with their chargers and never had a problem. This was even before the shut down feature to protect the batteries.
Took separate 12 volt battery with cord to run pump and fan in lanes if needed.

Altronics · 05-22-2014, 08:50 PM

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05-21-2014, 03:52 PM	#1
Ed Carpenter Live Reporter Join Date: May 2006 Location: Dripping Springs, Tx Posts: 2,709 Likes: 186 Liked 520 Times in 132 Posts	Re: What's Your Favorite 16v Battery? Bobby I use 1 lightweight turbostart battery. It works fine but as mentioned here if you have to start it 4 or 5 times in the staging lanes it may run down some. That's why I'm always up front at least in qualifying. __________________ Ed Carpenter 2005 Chevy Cobalt A/SM Race Engine Development

05-21-2014, 06:52 PM	#2
Painter Member Join Date: Dec 2012 Posts: 227 Likes: 4 Liked 162 Times in 45 Posts	Re: What's Your Favorite 16v Battery? My favorite 16 volt battery is the in my competitions car. Fairly good chance of failure. Anything below 12 to 1 compression will never see any performance from the extra voltage. The starter, the water pump and the fan running faster will never make a car go faster, but a bad 16 volt battery ( real common) will lose a race.

05-21-2014, 06:58 PM	#3
Dick Butler VIP Member Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Richmond Indiana Posts: 1,196 Likes: 5 Liked 32 Times in 19 Posts	Re: What's Your Favorite 16v Battery? We had two Turbo Start 16 in all three SS cars. Charged well with their chargers and never had a problem. This was even before the shut down feature to protect the batteries. Took separate 12 volt battery with cord to run pump and fan in lanes if needed.

05-22-2014, 08:50 PM	#4
Altronics Sponsor Join Date: Dec 2010 Posts: 92 Likes: 0 Liked 63 Times in 11 Posts	Re: What's Your Favorite 16v Battery? Check out our Powerlite Lithium batteries. We offer several capacities from 7 to 10 pounds and have a new 16V920SS super start battery that cranks at 1500 amps and has 16 amp hour capacity. I would normally recommend our 16V1200 for non-alternator cars, but have been running this battery in my super stock car for the past two seasons and have been able to go a couple rounds without charging it in a pinch! It is an awesome battery at a great price. If you think the weight is the only benefit to lithium give us a call to find out more. __________________ Fred Bartoli 847-923-0002