battery poles

[SteveJ]

Thanks, Stephen. I might set my Zs up like that. I want to put in battery interrupts, and a side post design is more conducive to that desire. I don't want to put the interrupt across the battery hold-down frame.

[sblake01]

I'll like it better when this battery needs be replaced. Then I'll get one that doesn't also have top posts.

[Carl Beck]

If you turn your stock battery around - to put the positive post closest to the engine - then the battery hold down frame's indents (cutouts) are in the wrong position - and that can leave your battery posts too close to the hold down frame. See white arrow in Stephen's picture below... That notch is there to provide room for the cable ends, so they don't contact the frame..

Better to get the Group 24F and keep the battery posts in their original position.

Even so - most batteries today have their posts - just slightly off the center line of the top of the case. Whereas the older style batteries had they posts closer to one side or the other... This too can cause interference with the stock battery hold down frame's cut-outs....

Nothing is as easy as it should be...

FWIW,

Carl B.

[ktm]

Carl, which is why I notched my battery hold down. I did not want the positive terminal coming in contact with the battery hold down.

[sblake01]

If you turn your stock battery around - to put the positive post closest to the engine - then the battery hold down frame's indents (cutouts) are in the wrong position - and that can leave your battery posts too close to the hold down frame. See white arrow in Stephen's picture below... That notch is there to provide room for the cable ends, so they don't contact the frame..

Better to get the Group 24F and keep the battery posts in their original position.

Even so - most batteries today have their posts - just slightly off the center line of the top of the case. Whereas the older style batteries had they posts closer to one side or the other... This too can cause interference with the stock battery hold down frame's cut-outs....

Nothing is as easy as it should be...

FWIW,

Carl B.

Maybe a 280Z battery tray is different. Mine also has a notch next to the positive terminal just out of view in the picture.