The 370Z Weight Reduction Thread

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A friend of mine recently showed me these batteries:
MOTY Design 12 cell lightweight motorcycle battery

Pulse discharge @ 10 seconds = 360 Amps
Continuous discharge (MAX) = 210 Amps
Cycle Life (DoD spec) = 1,000 cycles
Weight = 958.21g / 2.11lbs
Rating = 6.9Ah

Designed for bikes, but pretty most of these super lightweight batteries people are running in their cars are designed for bikes too. The person that told me about these is running a 4 cell and a 12 cell in two different bikes and is pretty happy with them. He claims that the 12 cell started his corvette no problem. If 12 cells isn't enough there's also the 16 cell

MOTY Design 16 cell lightweight motorcycle battery

Pulse discharge @ 10 seconds = 480 Amps
Continuous discharge (MAX) = 280 Amps
Cycle Life (DoD spec) = 1,000 cycles
Weight = 1532g / 3.38lbs
Rating = 9.2Ah

These use the relatively new and rare LiFePO4 (Lithium Iron Phosphate) battery chemistry which is the same type of cells used to power the killacycle, worlds fastest electric motorcycle.

Granted these have a total energy capacity of about 40%(12cell) and 54%(16cell) that of the popular Odyssey PC680, based on their advertised Amp hour ratings. Not sure how common it is to run down a PC680, but I guess these would be that much easier to do so with these.

Anyone wanna be a guinea pig?