What is a good starting battery?

Went through 2 optimas in 1 year in my daily driver. On my SPL vehicle, Optima died in the lane, had to get a charge.. Reset all my HU settings
As the title said, Good starting battery.

i run a deep cycle in my talon. it only has 500 cold cranking amps but my car is garaged and it lasts forever when running the subs. the reason i have such a small battery is cause i dont have room in the motor cavity. depending on the car you can put a bigger one. I also know of people who will use a kinetik as the main battery as well.

Where are you getting your Optimas from? Like I said in the sq section, please contact me, I would like to help with your optima problems. I have and have had Optimas in all of my vehicles in the last 8 years and have never had a problem. I install them in most of our customers cars and have had no problems. Please let me know what I and optima can do to help.

my optima bats have been good starting bats for about 5 years now. must have a different problem then the bats they are good bats

Never Had prob with them before. Only within the last year

Optima has been bought out, read the post in the sq section.

bruce-bruce wrote:

Optima has been bought out, read the post in the sq section.

ok. Yes I know they were bought out. I didn't know the quality was changed too. What Batt u recomend?

did you ever think there is something wrong in ur car draining them? if you have probes through out the season..and u keep running the battery dead...its gona kill the life....i havea dead red top out in my car to..but its been parked for 6months

Daily driver is a newer vehicle, car is being used all the time, not sitting. No shortage in it.

Well you know I like Kinetik, dut depending on what you want dollar for dollar this is a very good battery

http://www.eastpenn-deka.com/assets/base/1143.pdf

chach, powermaster D1200. I think the new optimas suck!!!period. I had my old optima in the wagon for 4 years and never had a problem. These new ones die too quick.

dbracer79 wrote:

chach, powermaster D1200. I think the new optimas suck!!!period. I had my old optima in the wagon for 4 years and never had a problem. These new ones die too quick.

Yesterday was kinda mest up. It was freezing outside. When I went to start the Envoy, click click. The poop died. I got a temp Batt in for now. Trying to get something good.

Do you have another battery (more then one) in you daily driver?

powermasters are the poop! i put a d2700 in my truck for daily(street beating 5l5 and 2 1200s) and used the powermaster step down module in my astro to charge my 12v batt with my 16v alts. havent had a single problem since i switched.

Powermaster is the direction I am looking at. Scottie told me some new Batt in January.

Kinetic......

Good Battery
Good People to deal with

USACI members who support shows and finals!

x2....Kinetik is a big supporter of USACI and the other org. so props to them for that. I also have heard good things about powermaster but have had no personal experience with them. Anyone know why they don't do a booth at finals?

I know they have great customer service at powermaster, however I'm not sure why they didn't have a booth.

As this is the USACI forum and we at USACI try to endorse and support the companies that support us, we let our members know whenever deciding to make a purchase what brands support this sport and this association. That is a relevent factor when considering who to support.

What other companies do for other organizations may be relevent to those organizations or their members in their forums but it is not relevent to USACI.

This IM is not intented to be negative or ilicit a response but more to explain our position on this issue.

Thank you for your understanding and for supporting USACI. We rely on individuals like yourselves to keep this sport going!

bumpin s-10 wrote:

x2....Kinetik is a big supporter of USACI and the other org. so props to them for that. I also have heard good things about powermaster but have had no personal experience with them. Anyone know why they don't do a booth at finals?

Well I respond to the reason the other brand wasn't at finals, but my post got deleted.

I never said anything negative about USACi. I try to support USACI and get more people involved in this sport. I now see we can't voice our opinion on this forum.
Again, I never said anything negative so it was kind of disapointing to see my reply got deleted.

TECH114 wrote:

bumpin s-10 wrote:

x2....Kinetik is a big supporter of USACI and the other org. so props to them for that. I also have heard good things about powermaster but have had no personal experience with them. Anyone know why they don't do a booth at finals?

Well I respond to the reason the other brand wasn't at finals, but my post got deleted.

I never said anything negative about USACi. I try to support USACI and get more people involved in this sport. I now see we can't voice our opinion on this forum.
Again, I never said anything negative so it was kind of disapointing to see my reply got deleted.

We appreate your support and were excited to see you make it to Omaha. We sincerly hope to see your name in a lot more N.E. events results in 2008 (Mark is working on shows already).

I only miss 2 show in the N.E area this year. Most of them not even posted in the USACI results. There are other organization, but this organization is the one we choose to support. I am even working on getting some more of my customers involved and attend shows. We helped Mark run some of the shows, which he give us special awards. I am looking to get some shops sponsor some shows this year. Mark is a great guy and doing an excellent job.

TECH114 wrote:

I only miss 2 show in the N.E area this year. Most of them not even posted in the USACI results. I am even working on getting some more of my customers involved and attend shows. We helped Mark run some of the shows. I am looking to get some shops sponsor some shows this year. Mark is a great guy and doing an excellent job.

I did not mean you did not attend enough, I meant we at USACI hope to hold a lot more show in that reagion for you to attend!

Mark is a great guy and I am sure he will appreciate your support in making that region as big as it ever was!

Well . I hope we get much more shows this year

http://www.nesoundoff.com

Mark will be updated it soon. Seems the weather up there makes it hard for early season events!

It will be nice if some of the shows are 2X and 3X points. All last year was single points

USACI wrote:

http://www.nesoundoff.com

Mark will be updated it soon. Seems the weather up there makes it hard for early season events!

The first show here use to be the 3rd week in April.

powermaster does support its usci competitors, unfortunately there was another finals the same weekend in powermasters home state so just couldnt justify a 12hr trip over a 2 hr trip. i'm sure we'll see powermaster at a few more usaci event in the future.

I have had very limited contact with Powermaster but would be happy to have then on board.

charlesestes wrote:

powermaster does support its usci competitors, unfortunately there was another finals the same weekend in powermasters home state so just couldnt justify a 12hr trip over a 2 hr trip. i'm sure we'll see powermaster at a few more usaci event in the future.

Yes Powermaster does support its competitors. Scottie is a great guy to deal with