currupt4130
VT Hokie
After owning and beating up this Nylint for about a year now I decided it need some improving. So I need a tummy tuck on it. Earlier today I had to tear apart the axles so that gave me some motivation. Anyway...
I found this shelf thing behind food lion looking for some scrap metal to use for the tummy tuck and it gave me a good idea.
So I cut out a section which ironically was two squares wide and left me with bars going down each side, and cut it to fit inside my chop. I chopped about 1/4 inch above the atlas sticker or about an 1/8th below the bump stops for the blue arms (at the very bottom of where the angle hits the body)
Then I set the grate up in the body and screwed it into place. I just used some screws I had from my Gen 1 thats in pieces in a box. Drilled holes with a Dremel and screwd it flush with the bottom of the cut.
After that I had to deal with the battery. I've read on here that its fine to run it on its side as its sealed, so thats what I did, just layed it down. I had to cut out the shifter console all the way back just to the seats and almost all the way to the gas pedal, but it works well. Took out the dash for now and just cut up the firewall to allow the battery to sit in there. I need to secure it still, but that shouldnt be hard. I'm thinkin either zip ties or some of those screw type pipe clamps. I'm gonna skin the bottom with some kind of plastic or just use beer cans for now. Kinda nice having a sub frame there.
And this is the final product. You can see the battery barely sticks above the seat. And no, I didn't have to cut into the seat at all.
I found this shelf thing behind food lion looking for some scrap metal to use for the tummy tuck and it gave me a good idea.
So I cut out a section which ironically was two squares wide and left me with bars going down each side, and cut it to fit inside my chop. I chopped about 1/4 inch above the atlas sticker or about an 1/8th below the bump stops for the blue arms (at the very bottom of where the angle hits the body)
Then I set the grate up in the body and screwed it into place. I just used some screws I had from my Gen 1 thats in pieces in a box. Drilled holes with a Dremel and screwd it flush with the bottom of the cut.
After that I had to deal with the battery. I've read on here that its fine to run it on its side as its sealed, so thats what I did, just layed it down. I had to cut out the shifter console all the way back just to the seats and almost all the way to the gas pedal, but it works well. Took out the dash for now and just cut up the firewall to allow the battery to sit in there. I need to secure it still, but that shouldnt be hard. I'm thinkin either zip ties or some of those screw type pipe clamps. I'm gonna skin the bottom with some kind of plastic or just use beer cans for now. Kinda nice having a sub frame there.
And this is the final product. You can see the battery barely sticks above the seat. And no, I didn't have to cut into the seat at all.
