Battery Shelf

With the general aim of getting the battery connected and start getting the wiring nailed down, I made a start on the battery shelf area. There are two fibreglass sections that cover off each of the seatbelt towers. I assume they are not meant to fit because they are so laughably the wrong size. The battery  positive cable will go through the right hand one, and the negative cable the left one to fit to a brass bolt in the seatbelt tower. The whole lot will then get covered by a big sheet of carpeted plywood into which I'll mount my boot light and battery isolator switch.

Here's the right hand one fitted, with sections of aluminium fabricated to make it fill the space. The new battery cable is a bit stubborn to get in place so its just all dangling in mid air for now!

Here's the left-hand one waiting to go in, my fabrication skills are still lacking but slowly getting better. I intend to gloop some sealant on when its all in to keep the battery area and the boot nice and dry as the other side of these panels is just about the diff/cv joints.

Updated: next evening - I drilled and tapped for an M10 brass bolt to take the battery negative to chassis on the seatbelt tower and cut appropriate holes for said battery wire and the rear loom to pass through. I removed the powder coat around the bolt and applied some Corban corrosion shield. All grommeted up nicely.

Below - finished and ready for a final whip round with some silicone sealant then off to the Internet for a battery tray. One point to note I now have no access to the top of the spring/damper units as those panels are riveted in. I did think of various ways to make them removable with rivnuts etc but I can always cut an access hole in the fibreglass at a later date if I need to get to the spring mounting bolts.

 All of that lot will be covered by a nice bit of carpet covered marine ply so it doesn't matter it looks a bit rough.