'71 T Coupe - Battery Choices/Configuration

[62S-R-S]

Strongly agree with David’s recommendation. I used these readily available covers on the positive terminals..

Common practice is to cover them, yet with a clean trunk, no floating projectiles, covers takes all the fun out of a trunk imo. Visibility forces you to monitor, maintain the battery more than buried, or covered..that's the benefit. To draw a comparison to fuel head, fuel lines, traversing your engine, and potential fallout from that.. vs. terminals. Hmmm.

[RSTarga]

Common practice is to cover them, yet with a clean trunk, no floating projectiles, covers takes all the fun out of a trunk imo. Visibility forces you to monitor, maintain the battery more than buried, or covered..that's the benefit. To draw a comparison to fuel head, fuel lines, traversing your engine, and potential fallout from that.. vs. terminals. Hmmm.

The consequences of exposed terminals in an accident is what would worry me.

[62S-R-S]

The consequences of exposed terminals in an accident is what would worry me.

A valid point. It's a mystery whether their decision to have batteries built into the corners was based on this, rather than better handling performance.. With few options available to them, they came up with a good compromise, that addressed most of the concerns.

[911MRP]

Common practice is to cover them, yet with a clean trunk, no floating projectiles, covers takes all the fun out of a trunk imo. …

Hope if making a decision to have exposed terminals “all the fun” doesn’t rapidly become “much more fun and games than you ever imagined”

Video
https://youtu.be/xESCXFz8ZQE

The factory had two covers on each +ve and secured batteries for good reasons … the parts #3&4 often go AWOL


Steve