Our buddies at Wrecked Magazine did a quick write-up showing us how they installed a S680 in their 350Z. Take a look. The 350Z as a whole is coming along quite nicely as well. There are plenty of other write-ups you can check out as well.
Thanks Wrecked Mag. Looking forward to your next issue!

Titan Motorsports will be opening the doors of their new facility in Orlando, FL this year; March 6th. Be sure to pay them a visit.

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Conductance testing is useful for determining the remaining life (or state of health, SOH) in a battery.  Many battery distributors and service centers use conductance testing on a regular basis for this very purpose and warranty processing.  However can conductance testing be used to establish a rating for a new battery?  According to Midtronics, a leader in conductance testing, no!    To quote their website,

“The Midtronics CCA value derived from conductance does not, however, determine the actual Cold Cranking Amps of the battery because that test includes a lengthy discharge of 30 seconds at a very high current rate.”

“The Midtronics CCA values are designed simply to mimic the initial starting characteristics of new batteries with a given CCA rating under the same operating conditions.
For example, if a battery that is rated at 600 CCA is measured at 500 CCA, it can be thought of as having similar starting characteristics of a new battery having a rating of 500 CCA if that battery is substituted with the test battery. It does not mean that the battery will pass a Cold Cranking Test at 500 CCA. It should also be remembered that the cranking power of all batteries increases with temperature and decreases with discharge and degradation.”

In talking with one of their engineers at the recent AAPEX show in Las Vegas and going through a demonstration of their product, it was clear that the Midtronics unit is not designed to set the CCA number, only to estimate it given a standard.  You enter the factory rated CCA data into the Midtronics machine and the machine returns a CCA that represents the battery’s state of health.

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