freedom battery

Upper Levels · #1 07-27-2015, 05:17 PM

just finishing a restoration of a COPO camaro and understand that with my build date of June, a freedom side post battery and cables should be installed , the only situation a top post style would be used is if the HD 63 Amp. alternator option selected.

Does anyone have info on this topic and/or where to source these, i'm tryting my local GM dealer as it said in a previous post that GM had not licenced the battery out to anyone

**William** · #2 07-27-2015, 06:10 PM

Not exactly.

K79 [42 amp] and K85 [63 amp] alternators were not available with mechanical lifter engines. If the car was built with the T60 heavy-duty battery it would have been a top-post.

Upper Levels · #3 07-27-2015, 09:01 PM

ok, it doesn't have the U60 option listed on the GM of Canada documents so that means side post as i read in the McNeish book?

**William** · #4 07-27-2015, 09:21 PM

Correct. It would have been built with a Delco R79 side-terminal battery.

http://www.camaros.org/underhood.shtml#Batteries

**Ls6 Ragtop** · #5 07-28-2015, 01:30 PM

William is correct . The correct battery is an R79 Delco Energizer. I was under the impression that Freedom Batteries were introduced in 1976?
Here's what the correct battery for your COPO looks like.

**169indy** · #6 08-02-2015, 02:46 AM

http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/pts/5137014737.html

not exact but it is a side post.

Jim(Not Mine)

**John Brown** · #7 08-02-2015, 03:09 AM

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: 169indy</div><div class="ubbcode-body">http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/pts/5137014737.html

not exact but it is a side post.

Jim(Not Mine) </div></div>

Low power battery. Might start a six cylinder car.