Prosport battery tie-down?

Answering my own question, sort-of, because what else am I going to do?

Courtesy @CharleyH a picture of the SR3 battery box. It looks like a regular rectangular battery strap, something like:

... except of course on my battery box the hold-down tabs are bent upwards, not downwards. They don't *seem* to be deformed, but I'm guessing at some point they got bent.

@mikesmith - the rubber strap you have shown, along with the fiberglass battery cover in the diagram is exactly the same as in my SR3 if that helps... and I would be happy to take a photo for you if it would help

My clubsport just used cable ties over the top to keep the battery in place (which I believe was quite common on the early stuff).

My PR6 uses the rubber strap as shown above, it goes directly over the battery (PC680) without any fibre glass battery cover. Last time I changed the battery for a different size I had to bend the tabs down to keep a good amount of tension on the rubber strap.

I could get you a photo if it'll help but it's basically just that diagram above without the upper cover.

Dunc.

Hi Mike,  The Prosport that I had was originally set up to use the rubber strap and cover like the SR3, but the previous owner used two standard battery J hooks and then made a metal strip that went on top of the battery between the two J hooks.  The J section of the hook went through some holes in the battery trey and the straight part went through the metal strip and was tightened down with lock nuts.  There was also a plastic strip under the metal strap to ensure that it couldn't come in contact with the battery posts.  This set up worked but I think the rubber strap and cap method is better.

Charley

Mike, I can't find any good picture of how it was set up in my car, but you can see some fuzzy images of it in the background of these that give you an idea of how it was set up.  Again, I think the rubber straps is a better approach, but this did work.

Charley

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Thanks for the pics; I was considering that, but hoping I could get the battery tray out to do something a bit more elegant on the bench. Sadly, no such luck, it's welded in. Back to the drawing board...

And fixed. Bend the tabs, apply Harley battery strap.

Next, what's this pixie dust in my oil?  8(

@mikesmith, pixi dust doesn’t sound good.  I would send a sample to black stone and have them analyze it.  Is it ferrous?

Not ferrous. Super fine, about the same weight as the soot also in the oil.

Looks like just a little in the bottom of the oil filter housing, didn't turn any up in the oil tank, so going to cross my fingers and soldier on. Oil itself surprisingly sooty for a car supposedly not raced since the last service.

I got sick of stuffing around trying to get at the terminals for charging and also the removal of the battery, so I moved it into the cockpit. I made an aluminium tray that bolts to the no longer used fire bomb mounts.