Lightweight Battery Recommendations?, auto-x improvements! Options

[uberschall]

I would like to pick up a lightweight battery for auto-x this year, as I can't put the battery where i want under scca rules.

does anyone have experience with the braille or odyssey lightweights or have other suggestions? i've even heard of people using motorcycle batteries, i think.

any input helps!

[uberschall]

i'll be in sts. according to the rulebook, the battery cannot be relocated inside the passenger compartment. i was planning to take my back seat out and mount it on the passenger side, in front of the rear wheel, to offset some of my weight, but backseat's gotta stay too.

i really don't want to put it in the trunk, because the only good place for it would be right in front of the jack stowage. i frequently carry my bike and guitar stuff in the car, and that gt4 brace stole enough of my cargo room!

i don't plan on using the light battery year-round, the cca seem to be awfully low on them. if someone knows of a lightweight that will handle michigan winters, speak up!

thanks for the input, jdg!