Today I removed the hood and the trunk lid in an effort to start modifying and removing the battery racks. The rear battery rack is going to be very easy to modify. It seems I’ll need to remove about a quarter inch all the way around and move one piece of angle iron about half an inch. Ill end up with only two rows batteries in the back battery rack. This makes for a very simple layout to interconnect the batteries and easy to strap them together. The front battery rack is a little more difficult. The front battery track is a single string of batteries; however, the body is a little bit in the way cause these batteries are a little bit wider than the original batteries that were in the gas tank compartment. The original battery box configuration required me to actually hammer back some of the body work in order to clear the battery box and space available. With this new wider battery I have to hammer back some more but I think that the sheet metal was creased a little bit, and will not actually be able to bend it any further. I think I will probably have to cut sheet metal in order to get them to fit and still have room for the steering brackets that are in that same area where the sheet metal work needs to be done. Besides this one sheet metal requirement the front battery rack modification is quite easy and I won’t have to remove anything and reinstalling just have to do somebody work around the area where the battery racks too narrow. I’ll make this clearer in future posts when I show what I’m planning to do.
