battery hold down options for NB
I am replacing my 11 year old dying battery with a small Deka.
What do you guys do for a hold down clamp? |
I thought that the Deka battery fit with the OEM retaining clamp, no? I'm pretty sure that's all I used when I had one.
Here's how my Optima is held in: http://img37.imagefra.me/i526/thradd..._e0b_u77ts.jpg One J-hook from autozone, one piece of straight threaded rod, a bit of aluminum L-channel, and a few nuts. I built a similar thing to hold in the Duralast (wet cell) that came in the blue car. |
I just cut/weld/modified the stocker to fit my non Mazda battery. Works like a charm and looks oem.
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I am running a Deka, and it fit in there with no issues at all. I am pretty surprised that a Deka battery is known to this site. Where did you buy it at?
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Originally Posted by thirdgen
(Post 686899)
I am pretty surprised that a Deka battery is known to this site.
East Penn / Deka, as you probably know, is a big OEMer. Well, one of the very first commonly available aftermarket, direct-fit, AGM batteries with correct terminal polarity for the Miata was sold by a company called Westco, who specifically sell it as "the Miata battery": http://www.westcobattery.com/content...php?page=miata I don't know if it's still the case, but initially, that battery was a Deka unit, private labeled. Since then, a number of other companies have gotten into the Deka-relabel business as well. For quite a while, the Duralast "Miata" battery was a Deka (it's now a wet-cell), and the Marathon battery still is: http://www.batterymart.com/p-12v-maz...a-battery.html Batteries Plus also sells a Deka-relabel, though I can't recall whose name is on it. |
Anything quicker and off-the-shelf, or using cheap random parts from FLAPS?
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Originally Posted by Joe Perez
(Post 686912)
There's some history behind it.
East Penn / Deka, as you probably know, is a big OEMer. Well, one of the very first commonly available aftermarket, direct-fit, AGM batteries with correct terminal polarity for the Miata was sold by a company called Westco, who specifically sell it as "the Miata battery": http://www.westcobattery.com/content...php?page=miata I don't know if it's still the case, but initially, that battery was a Deka unit, private labeled. Since then, a number of other companies have gotten into the Deka-relabel business as well. For quite a while, the Duralast "Miata" battery was a Deka (it's now a wet-cell), and the Marathon battery still is: http://www.batterymart.com/p-12v-maz...a-battery.html Batteries Plus also sells a Deka-relabel, though I can't recall whose name is on it. 8AM-U1R was the autozone number, same as the end of Marathon's number.(Must be Deka's) I noted somewhere that the mold marks on the Westco case are the same as the Duralast |
Yeah, 8AM-U1R is the Deka p/n for the original part, so anything you find with that number should be a Deka AGM, regardless of whose label is on it. I've seen them with both black and grey on the lower body, but the cap section seems to always be identical- that ridged black design.
That's the reason why I suspect Westco may have found a new OEM- the picture on their website looks different now. Here's the current Westco image: http://img40.imagefra.me/i528/thradd..._20e_u77ts.jpg And the Deka: http://www.batterymart.com/images/pr...8amu1r_new.jpg Or maybe it's just that Deka changed the design and only Westco has an updated picture... edit: Found a newer picture of the Marathon, looks the same as the new Westco: http://www.thisoldtractor.com/gtbend...ar-8am-u1r.jpg Must be that Deka just redesigned the top. EDIT II: And I still maintain that the OEM battery clamp should work on it. |
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The westco works just fine with the OEM holder in the NB and in my NA Miata.
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We have a Westco in the Rental on the stock hold-down.
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