<html><body>I'm using the concours correct 17L, 6V batteries from Antique auto battery(now Jim's or NLE)...bought years ago and kept on maintain charge. They no longer make a 17L battery. Now-a-days you can still purchase a 19L battery which will fit the tray, has mounting ears, and is about 1" taller than the old 17s. Reason why is that VW bugs and MGBs also used that same unit. As Roland says: be sure to insulate the battery lid with Armacord; if the lid is distorted it could short out the terminals. Otherwise it fits fine and is more powerful than the 17L. Interstate Battery makes one available today. One 12V works as well, but you will fail concours (if that's an issue). Here is the battery layout using original 17Ls in my 100. Hank, healeyhelper.com<br><br><div class="reply-new-signature"></div><p>-----------------------------------------</p>From: "Roland Wilhelmy" <sentenac.rw@gmail.com><br>To: "Bob Spidell"<br>Cc: "Healeys"<br>Sent: Sunday June 7 2020 8:26:46PM<br>Subject: Re: [Healeys] Anybody have experience with this battery?<br><br><div dir="auto">Check if 8 1/2" is height of case only or height to top of battery posts. If height to top of posts is 9 and a fraction inches you can still use in a BN1 or 2 but you risk shorting battery to the body if you aren't very careful and if you didn't insulate the underside of the door well. It fits all the other cars, though. <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Also, the capacity of those original style tar tops is limited and marginal. Modern batteries are much more energetic and smaller, too. A 12volt battery that will fit the battery tray will do better than two original tar top 6volt batteries and cost about <span class="money">$50</span>. So unless you are going for Concours save your money. </div><div dir="auto"><br><div dir="auto">-Roland</div><div dir="auto">BN1 #724</div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jun 7, 2020, 5:35 PM Bob Spidell <<a href="mailto:bspidell@comcast.net">bspidell@comcast.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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I can't find dimensions for 17L anywhere, but this looks close:<br>
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