Porsche Dual Battery Doesn't Fit

[mfitton]

My Porsche batteries fit fine in my ‘71 with unmolested boxes, you 10 people have F’uped boxes plain and simple.

[Richy]

My car : 7,000 mile original car , I cut the flanges off with a saw and the batteries fit nicely . The boxes are a little out of square in my experience , so I think I only cut one side . I don't have F'uped boxes , or if I do thats the way they came from Stuttgart .

[Jon B]

....Can't quite make out brand or wording on that battery label. The brand image's "organic" shape doesn't much look like the often seen Varta brand? Nor is it Bosch distinctive symbol.
Maybe Banner with its long established Buffalo brand symbol -- after all they're one of Europe's oldest battery companies based in Austria?

The battery pictured in the driver's manual is a DETA.



Jon B.
Vista, CA

[911MRP]

Coincidence... I was just in touch with isaydingdong today on another repro sticker.

[Jon B]

Jon B.
Vista, CA

[Jim Morris]

Where can battery stickers be had, such as those shown by Jon B, in post #14 above?

[911GP]

They are from isaydingdong

[911GP]

Steve- I wonder if the font they have used for Deta is a little different for 70s too. Their D in Deta seems to differ to the logo in the brochure you posted.
Kind regards
Gitesh

[Jon B]

Another Christophorus ad, from 1968.
DETA was not the only battery used by Porsche at the time, just the one shown in the driver's manual image.





Jon B.
Vista, CA

[chris belyea]

So I've cut all the ledges off and the batteries JUST fit but I'm having trouble fitting the vent tube. I can get the vent tube on if I place it on the side of the battery that faces the rear and run it around the back toward the front. I don't think this is ideal because the tube gets compressed when it turns the corners of the battery. Since my battery boxes or so messed up already, does it make any since to drill a hole on the rear side of the battery box?

Chris