Battery Placement

What is Battery Placement?

Most cars allow you to adjust the placement of your battery pack, whether it's front-to-back or side-to-side. Doing this can change the handling characteristics of your car.

How do you change the Battery Placement?

Sliding the pack forward will increase steering but reduce rear traction. It may also result in a less responsive steering feeling due to the greater load placed on the front wheels. Sliding the pack back will result in less steering but more rear traction.

In off-road, weight jacking can also cause your buggy or truck to jump differently. More weight forward will make the vehicle nose-heavy while in the air. More weight back will make it rear-heavy.

Then, there's the split pack. Running three cells back and three cells forward (connected by a short piece of wire) will give you a happy medium. I know a couple guys that run two cells forward and four back. This is a very easy setup to drive as it balances the car much better than full front or full back. This might also work good in off-road!!! In any event, always use the foam pad to hold the batteries in place.