I need your Help ASAP

Elliotw · Thu, Aug-12-2010, 04:41:30 AM

So this Friday i am attending a car control / HPDE school at my Local race track (Portland Intl Raceway) and I am all set to go expect my battery isn't secure!

I have a Optima Redtop battery and was wondering if any1 knew a good way to secure this type of battery, i really don't wanna fork over the 200 bucks for a BMW battery. I don't have the original tie down either but could buy it if it could work with my battery.
Thanks for your help

cracky · Thu, Aug-12-2010, 05:10:05 AM

zip ties...lol
though not sure if they will ahve tech/look there/care.

edit: google found this

http://ninemisfit.com/vehicles/1996_bmw_m3/optima/

but you obviously dont have much time for that...

Elliotw · Thu, Aug-12-2010, 05:11:19 AM

They have techs inspect all the cars you think zip ties will pass?

cracky · Thu, Aug-12-2010, 05:12:31 AM

probably not. ehe. it would work in a pinch though.(if you needed it on the street or something)

SG_M3 · Thu, Aug-12-2010, 05:13:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Elliotw

They have techs inspect all the cars you think zip ties will pass?

No, it should not pass.

Elliotw · Thu, Aug-12-2010, 05:28:46 AM

I was thinking of using one of those cargo tighteners you know like on a truck bed with the ratchet

likes this
http://www.homedepot.com/webapp/wcs/...18&marketID=54

Don't know if it will pass tho

camdinans3 · Thu, Aug-12-2010, 04:21:52 PM

at the HPDE's ive been to the inspectors looked in the trunk, that was it. the battery cover was on there and they didnt lift it up or anything. zip tie the **** out of it, put the cover on.

TomS2 · Thu, Aug-12-2010, 05:35:36 PM

sometimes tech jiggles the battery, other times they dont.

so how long have you been driving around with your battery flopping?

BleedsBlue · Thu, Aug-12-2010, 05:38:20 PM

^ +1, how is a driving school the only reason you have to secure your battery

HfAsianInvasion · Thu, Aug-12-2010, 06:05:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Elliotw

I was thinking of using one of those cargo tighteners you know like on a truck bed with the ratchet

likes this
http://www.homedepot.com/webapp/wcs/...18&marketID=54

Don't know if it will pass tho

If it's tight and if you can yank on it from each side without it feeling like it's going to come out, then that will probably be sufficient, but it will depend on whoever is hosting the school (I assume CSCC?).

I won't be out there for this one, but best of luck. Watch out for turn 7-8. We lost an FD RX-7 and a silver E36 M3 there in the rain at the last Alfa Club track day, and myself and an E30 325 spun out there as well.

Thu, Aug-12-2010, 04:41:30 AM	#1
Elliotw Just a N00b Join Date: Apr 2009 Age: 23 Posts: 89 Reputation: 0 Location: Portland	I need your Help ASAP So this Friday i am attending a car control / HPDE school at my Local race track (Portland Intl Raceway) and I am all set to go expect my battery isn't secure! I have a Optima Redtop battery and was wondering if any1 knew a good way to secure this type of battery, i really don't wanna fork over the 200 bucks for a BMW battery. I don't have the original tie down either but could buy it if it could work with my battery. Thanks for your help __________________ 1995 E36 ///M3 Black/Black Bilstein Rear Shocks Stewart Water Pump Borla CatBack Exhaust

Thu, Aug-12-2010, 05:10:05 AM	#2
cracky Next level beats Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 1,959 Reputation: 0	zip ties...lol though not sure if they will ahve tech/look there/care. edit: google found this http://ninemisfit.com/vehicles/1996_bmw_m3/optima/ but you obviously dont have much time for that... __________________ drive a live axle high power car in rain, your e30 will feel like jesus.- DontRevMe

Thu, Aug-12-2010, 05:11:19 AM	#3
Elliotw Just a N00b Join Date: Apr 2009 Age: 23 Posts: 89 Reputation: 0 Location: Portland	They have techs inspect all the cars you think zip ties will pass? __________________ 1995 E36 ///M3 Black/Black Bilstein Rear Shocks Stewart Water Pump Borla CatBack Exhaust

Thu, Aug-12-2010, 05:12:31 AM	#4
cracky Next level beats Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 1,959 Reputation: 0	probably not. ehe. it would work in a pinch though.(if you needed it on the street or something) __________________ drive a live axle high power car in rain, your e30 will feel like jesus.- DontRevMe Last edited by cracky; Thu, Aug-12-2010 at 05:19:25 AM.

Thu, Aug-12-2010, 05:28:46 AM	#6
Elliotw Just a N00b Join Date: Apr 2009 Age: 23 Posts: 89 Reputation: 0 Location: Portland	I was thinking of using one of those cargo tighteners you know like on a truck bed with the ratchet likes this http://www.homedepot.com/webapp/wcs/...18&marketID=54 Don't know if it will pass tho __________________ 1995 E36 ///M3 Black/Black Bilstein Rear Shocks Stewart Water Pump Borla CatBack Exhaust

Thu, Aug-12-2010, 04:21:52 PM	#7
camdinans3 Resident Rabble Rouser Join Date: Jul 2008 Age: 27 Posts: 13,139 Reputation: 0 Location: Charlestown NH	at the HPDE's ive been to the inspectors looked in the trunk, that was it. the battery cover was on there and they didnt lift it up or anything. zip tie the **** out of it, put the cover on. __________________ Andrew: AVUS 1995 ///95 Supercharged Club

Thu, Aug-12-2010, 05:35:36 PM	#8
TomS2 Banned Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 2,410 Reputation: 0 Location: cranium in spinchter	sometimes tech jiggles the battery, other times they dont. so how long have you been driving around with your battery flopping? __________________ Sincerely, Tom I upped my standards, so up yours. Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life. I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty. xx

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