Looking for a battery for the 2nd gen as it's almost fire up time
The Chilton manual doesn't say which spec battery it needs, it has some alternator and starter specs instead. It says that the starter needs 350 cranking amps (the highest rating of all the engines, went with this to be safe, some are as low as 240 ca). The alternator produces 61 amps (goes up to 90 odd for the latter years). My engine is the elusive '74 - '76 cop motor, so going with the higher spec starter requirement to be safe. Not sure about the alternator on there but the most popular amps is 61.
I'm assuming a battery with 350 cca and 61 ah will work? I've seen some with 420 cca so there's some buffer there.
I did some searching on nastyz28 and couldn't get a straight answer. It was a bit Americany "get the highest spec you can mine's 1000 cca" (no exaggeration) and most people seem to be running 770 and 800 cca batteries over there. But why, no explanations :/ Seems like a waste of money? Or am i missing something. In the Chilton manual the table shows the highest amp hours at 90 i think, so that will be for an air con car with power windows, rear defroster etc.
I don't want to underpower but can't seem to justify spending over £100 to "get the highest cca you can" without a rationale behind it.
The car doesn't have AC or electric windows. Does have rear defroster and radio. Most of the lights are LED, all interior ones are. Battery is in stock location.
I've found this battery, it's the first one that came into the 60ah+ rating and is 540 cca: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Type-075-60Ah ... 43c23f38c8
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