Tech Forum : Boot Floor

Posted Friday, Mar 16th 3:10pm [Edit] [Quote] [IMS] [View car]

Post nr. 163

I am looking at removing some of my boot floor to fit a fuel cell.
How much car rigidity is in the boot floor or can I get away with cutting it all out and fitting an aluminium sheet over the hole.
Any advice would be great.
Thanks in advance,
James

Posted Friday, Mar 16th 4:05pm [Edit] [Quote] [IMS] [View car]

Post nr. 276

I would suggest that you weld some steel angles (1mm to 1.5mm thick steel) into a rectangular ring and weld it to the floor. Similar concept to a ring beam in building construction. It might turn out stronger than the original

You would of course, weld the housing to the "ring".

Posted Friday, Mar 16th 9:28pm [Edit] [Quote] [IMS] [View car]

Post nr. 175

Don't they do ones that will fit in the spare wheel well?

Posted Monday, Mar 19th 12:37pm [Edit] [Quote] [IMS] [View car]

Post nr. 164

jdench wrote:

Don't they do ones that will fit in the spare wheel well?

Yes they do, but I have just brought a 100 litre one for an Alfa. It fits perfect in the boot but the spare wheel well is about 20mm out of line.