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When it comes to selecting a battery you have a wide choice. Some racers have very good success with $49.95 Wal-Mart battery and other racers will tell you that they need a $200 deep-cycle dry cell battery. I think the main consideration is your budget and the amount of vibration the battery (or batteries) are subjected to. In my Dart I have used the same two Group 24 NAPA batteries the last three years with no problems at all.

In "Project 4-Link" I knew there was going to be more vibration and that weight was a consideration. I chose the Odyssey deep-cycle dry cell battery. It has 800 CCA (cold cranking amps) 91 minutes of reserve capacity at a 25-amp load. It weighs only 35 pounds and does not need a special battery charger.

Alternators, you either love them or hate them. I have decided it is a lot easier to find a place for the alternator and never worry about dragging around the battery charger. For "Project 4-Link" we are very limited in space so we used a Mitsubishi alternator and made our own brackets.

That wraps up our fourth edition of "Project 4-Link. I want to thank Strange Engineering, Odyssey Batteries and Dragstar Chassis for helping out on this edition. In two weeks we will feature installation and choices available for "monitoring everything" with the instruments you select and our first article on fuel systems.

See ya at the track!

Project 4 Link: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

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