{"id":1810,"date":"2016-09-15T18:47:27","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T18:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.specr53.com\/blog\/?p=1810"},"modified":"2016-09-15T18:47:27","modified_gmt":"2016-09-15T18:47:27","slug":"light-weight-power-by-braille","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/diy\/light-weight-power-by-braille\/","title":{"rendered":"Light Weight Power by Braille"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the easiest weight-saving mods you can make to your MINI is to replace the stock battery with a lighter weight one. \u00a0Lithium Ion batteries are ridiculously expensive, but Absorbent Glass Mat (AGM)\u00a0are not and they weigh about half of stock. \u00a0For this application we used the Braille B2618 which an 18 lb., right side positive sealed battery. \u00a0It has 472 cold cranking amps and is rated for 26 amp\/hr. Braille also makes a very slick aluminum cage to mount it that fits nicely in the MINI battery compartment (with some slight modifications). The neat thing about sealed batteries is that the can be fitted wherever you want and mounted vertically or horizontally. \u00a0If we ever corner balance the car, we&#8217;ll think about relocating it, but it works fine now where it it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/battery-installed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1812\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/battery-installed-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"battery-installed\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/braille-battery-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1813\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/braille-battery-2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"braille-battery-2\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/old-battery.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1814\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/old-battery-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"old-battery\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the easiest weight-saving mods you can make to your MINI is to replace the stock battery with a lighter weight one. \u00a0Lithium Ion batteries are ridiculously expensive, but Absorbent Glass Mat (AGM)\u00a0are not and they weigh about half of stock. \u00a0For this application we used the Braille B2618 which an 18 lb., right &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/diy\/light-weight-power-by-braille\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Light Weight Power by Braille&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,14],"tags":[40,53],"class_list":["post-1810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diy","category-mini","tag-battery","tag-braille"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}