Larry,
I'm not structrual engineer, but from what it looks like, the battery
boxes are no more than mere appendeges to the body.
I've got a '78 in the shop now, and with that car there is of course
only one battery box. There don't seem to be any additional stiffining
added in that area when the factory took their Sawzall to it.
The only "structrual" function the battery box MAY have is to replace a
bit of the stiffness where they cut the hole in the body for that
battery.
Rick Morrison
72 MGBGT
74 Midget
On Thu, 01 Apr 1999 08:28:33 -0700 Larry Hoy <larryhoy@cwix.com> writes:
>I sent this to the list last Sunday, four minutes later Skye changed
>the
>subject (that's OK Skye) and away we went talking about plastic
>inserts in
>the battery box wells. I did receive one "private" response
>indicating that
>if the battery box framework was structural, his car was certainly
>going to
>fall apart because of the rusty state they were in.
>
>So here we go again:
>
>Does the battery box framework on a 1967 MGB provide structural
>integrity to
>the unibody?
>
>I have no batteries in mine, and they just get in the way of rear end
>ratio
>changes. I'm "itchin" to take my Sawsall to them.
>
>Any comments?
>
>Larry Hoy
>http://home.cwix.com/~larryhoy@cwix.com/
>
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