did a lot of work over the weekend heres pics

[benflagg]

old battery blew up and corroded the s*** out of the engine bay, so I stripped it down and treated it, then painted it.

 

[benflagg]

please, tell me what you guys think?

 

[sephiroth]

looks pretty good. can hardly tell that anything ever happened. Did you use heat resistiant paint or is it just some regular body paint?

 

[benflagg]

its reg paint , I figured thats what was on there before, the primer was a high heat mix though

 

[D-rock240]

Damn that was your stock battery? I think I'm going to get a new one now.

 

[GreyMan]

that sucks your battery blew up, and you did a great job repairing the damage.

 

[L8R]

All I can say is wtf. Good job cleaning up though, good thing you did it ASAP.

 

[benflagg]

yea it was the stock one, I strongly recomend an optima, and thanks about the compliments.
It really was a lot of work.

 

[speed_addict]

WOW that is nuts. I second the getting a new battery thing. I still have my stock one and Im on 47k miles. Considering I work at an auto parts store part time (OBVIOUSLY for the discount LOL) I really should just buy one.

 

[Jaysanooch]

Wow...never thought that was possible. Great job fixing it up...I feel for you though. Why the hell would that happen?

 

[MrDiggler]

It happened to the race team I bought my spare engine and tranny from. The tranny got acid all over it when the race car blew/puked a battery. They said it was an alternator or voltage regulator problem and that the battery got too hot a charge. Either way, I got a steal on the tranny and have been working to polish the case, which will look killer when I'm done.

 

[Omar MSP]

nice job... luckly for me my stock battery jus died, i bought a new one 2 weeks ago...

 

[MSP608]

i had the same thing happen to me, acid corroded alot of stuff even my intercooler piping. i got some polish on there it helped a lil. yay for having a black mica msp i just primered the corroded spots on the body. optima redtop now ftw.

 

[iLisa]

looks like a good clean up job.. what would make a battery explode?

 

[mikesMSP12]

alternator charged it too much, or too much parasitic loads.. damn that sucks.. it happened to a buddy of mine in my auto class. looks nice what u did already