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I have a few Optimas. Red, Yellow, and Blue. You better have luck on your side when you buy one. The quality control has gone way down hill since when they first started making them. My last blue one lasted 14 months. I had a red one last 7 months. I am not the only one to experience Optima problems. I doubt I will buy another one.
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X2, for the budget battery the everlast @ Walmart are suprisingly good and hold up well. I've also had excellent service out of the Die Hard Gold series from Sears and with the yellow top Optima's.
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"...When the Swedes owned optima, they paid us well and quality was foremost of all at all cost. JCI is the company that KILLED optima batteries, we always had 99.99 pure lead until JCI bought optima. The first thing they did was: fired all of the on staff scientists, then fired all of the PHD's, then fired the chemists, then dismantled the chemistry lab, then dismantled the prototype lab, then got rid of the pure lead and replaced it with lead with higher tin content, then JCI brought in their genius engineers and re formulated the lead acid paste, then replaced the AGM paper with lower grade paper, ex cetera, ex cetera. All of this was done within the first 2 years of their ownership! We had to fight like hell to prove that what we had when they purchased us was superior to what they had done.
we finally convinced them to begin returning to some of the successful methods Gates had originally designed, but only after making them think that it was their idea. When the U.S. plant shut down, we were using pure lead, similar to original paper and similar paste formula, however, there were many, many other changes they had made in the manufacturing process that negatively affected the optima but produced higher volumes. In my opinion, the Enersys Odyssey is, by far, the very best battery on the market today. I am aware of some of the mfg practices being used specifically on the optima in mexico, and they are not conducive to quality!" end quote.
I just looked at my red top and it says it is manufactured in CO( too lazy to take it out and look all around the battery) but I am pretty sure they make them in Mexico now.
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"...When the Swedes owned optima, they paid us well and quality was foremost of all at all cost. JCI is the company that KILLED optima batteries, we always had 99.99 pure lead until JCI bought optima. The first thing they did was: fired all of the on staff scientists, then fired all of the PHD's, then fired the chemists, then dismantled the chemistry lab, then dismantled the prototype lab, then got rid of the pure lead and replaced it with lead with higher tin content, then JCI brought in their genius engineers and re formulated the lead acid paste, then replaced the AGM paper with lower grade paper, ex cetera, ex cetera. All of this was done within the first 2 years of their ownership! We had to fight like hell to prove that what we had when they purchased us was superior to what they had done.
we finally convinced them to begin returning to some of the successful methods Gates had originally designed, but only after making them think that it was their idea. When the U.S. plant shut down, we were using pure lead, similar to original paper and similar paste formula, however, there were many, many other changes they had made in the manufacturing process that negatively affected the optima but produced higher volumes. In my opinion, the Enersys Odyssey is, by far, the very best battery on the market today. I am aware of some of the mfg practices being used specifically on the optima in mexico, and they are not conducive to quality!" end quote.
I just looked at my red top and it says it is manufactured in CO( too lazy to take it out and look all around the battery) but I am pretty sure they make them in Mexico now.
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Thanks Isaac good info. I forgot about the Odyssey line they have a high quality product. I had a small racing Odyssey in my Evo to make room for the IC plumbing. It was impressive for its size.
Yes with ya Larry on the optima stuff. My buddy Ryan. With his marine marrine bis had to stop USO g them. He uses deka Agm now. No more comebacks
they may be a good battery but a three times the price of a std battery kinda hard to justify
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Yea they're used more for specialized applications not worth it for
average daily driver.
Autozone reader said alternator was problem
alt will not cause a terminal to corrode but it could be in need of replacement.
besides every little bit helps the economy
okkkk CB talk again!!! hahaha i changed the anntana to day to a brand new fire stick , and changed the cabel , cabel #2 welll i tryed the atn first and the swrs still pegged , then i said lets do the cabel, did that with the new attn and bamm it droped too like 2.7 -3 ,, soooo i said let me try the new old wilson attn again and it pegged ,, crazy yea but im gona change the cabel again and rout it diff and try cutting the atn down bit buy bit to get the swrs good , i taked 2 abuddy trucker who said thers a guy on hwy 190 in port barrie with a cb shop he said hes the shizzz he said bring it ther , i was temped to go to day but i think im on the right track , i done spent toooo mutch on this 2 cbs 2 atns 3 cabels and like 6 hrs time if i cant get it tomarro im going ther lol
when doing the SWR what channels are ya using
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Carb
Volunteer,
I think that you had mentioned that you or someone else was running a Holly carb on your F/2F engine. I was just curious as to what model number the carb was and what the flow rate is. I was also curious as to where you had purchased the intake manifold adapter.
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Cruzersoul
Volunteer,
I think that you had mentioned that you or someone else was running a Holly carb on your F/2F engine. I was just curious as to what model number the carb was and what the flow rate is. I was also curious as to where you had purchased the intake manifold adapter.
Thanks,
Cruzersoul
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Its the Holley 500 kit sold by Downey. I heard alot of people bash the carb in the past and my first choice wouldn't be that kit. I'd go with a good factory core to send off to Jim or Mark, 2nd would be a Weber 32/38. I can't bash this Holley though it runs perfect. Haven't wheeled it yet. I put a kit in it when I got it the seals and accelerator pump had rotted from sitting up and was leaking. I didn't have to fight any tuning issues. I did the points conversion on it and it only ran better.
Its the Holley 500 kit sold by Downey. I heard alot of people bash the carb in the past and my first choice wouldn't be that kit. I'd go with a good factory core to send off to Jim or Mark, 2nd would be a Weber 32/38. I can't bash this Holley though it runs perfect. Haven't wheeled it yet. I put a kit in it when I got it the seals and accelerator pump had rotted from sitting up and was leaking. I didn't have to fight any tuning issues. I did the points conversion on it and it only ran better.
Downey was a victim of the system. They had to shut down their business a few months ago. Pretty sad, they were always good to me and very helpful.
aww reallyy! man i liked downey been around for ever! i orderd some headers and intake for my 02 taco way back
How they were the best for yota's