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Battery Relocation
By Ken Green
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Relocating the battery can add valuable and usable
space to the front trunk. There is just room between the bulkhead and
steering rack chassis brace for the battery I used.
I had a box built that the battery squeezes
into, but with a gap on the passenger side for the positive cable.
You can run the positive cable through the
hole in the bulkhead for the AC condensation drain, and re-route the drain.
I cut and then ground the back edge to the
bulkhead, and cut/ground a tab on the bulkhead for the brake and clutch
lines which have to be re-routed.
Then I carefully enlarged the hole to fit
the box. I had to slightly cut into the rack brace, maybe 1/8 inch, to make
room for the box.
If I was
starting from scratch, I think I would cut the sides and front of the hole
undersized and bend the metal 180 degrees to strengthen the edges of the
hole.
