Immo1282

Got my front battery box back from the welder this morning. The guy even drilled & tapped holes for me which is lovely, because two holes ate 6 drillbits and snapped a tap last time I tried cutting this material (304 stainless steel)

Fits my front battery pack wonderfully...


Unfortunately, it fits the car (unmodified) slightly less well...


This is the idea - though I need to cut into the spare wheel well to get it to drop low enough to close the bonnet lid on it...


Will definitely have to fabricate some support bars to take some weight off the wheel-well and put it straight onto the subframe, so there's some modifications needed anyway - but I'll have to get the angle grinder out a little earlier than I'd hoped...

Also played around with my charging port - Turns out the cheap-looking plastic dust-cap that came with my charging port fits pretty well into the metal surround for the fuel-filler. One quick 3D printed part to hold it together and it looks great. The rest of the filler cap has been reinstalled on the car - it seals fine without the metal ring Will repaint the ring as it got badly scuffed when I was taking it apart, but other than that it's in good shape (apart from the metal I removed to fit the charge port cover.