Well it only took a week or so to get them -
it seems to be just badged by them it's really
a Deka power sports battery made by East Penn
it's a ETX15L AGM CCA 190. Size wise it's an exact
match - does not have a vent pipe and terminal mounts
are much heavier so I had to bend the inside edge
flat so it would bolt down.

Man did the '02 fire right up - it's usually a bugger to start as the battery would lose charge fairly fast - it measures 12.27 volts and new Bigcrank measured 12.99 volts out of the box.  I'm more convinced than ever - that if our batteries are not very hot then our ign system just doesn't work correctly.

Rather handsome

I'd buy that battery for the name alone.  

Now you truely can say, "I got a Big Crank".

Gotta love it  

Where'd you get 'em and how much were they?

Huh?  Lead storage batteries are taught in every beginning chemistry class:  2.2 volts per cell.  Six cells is 13.2 volts.

Reelthing wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:01:

Which is more important... Cold crank amps or the Amp hour rating?

Im looking at the YTX14AHL-BS High performance maintenance free because I can get it locally and save the shipping from the US.(extra $20-$50 depending on speed)  But I notice it has a higher CCA of 210 but the amp hour is less than stock at 12 AH.  Any thoughts?

http://www.yuasabatteries.com/yuasa05/vehicle_search.asp

I'll second the CCA being of greater worth.  The CCA is how hard the battery will crank, the AH is how long it will crank.  I only crank a half second or so.

My logic is that there is a decompression solenoid to allow the engine to crank easy to a reasonable rpm.  But as long as the decompression solenoid is operated you have no compression to fire the engine.  Therefore the engine should fire upon the release of the starter when the engine is spinning by momentum and the compression is there to make it pop.

got two !