Spent a couple of hours tinkering today: worked on the rear batt rack.
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This will hold four batts. It's positioned as far forward as possible, to try to keep the suspension level. Until this afternoon, the batts were piled (actually wedged in place with pieces of wood & empty gallon paint cans) against the
rear of the hatch area, and the rear of the car was sitting lower than the front. Hopefully moving them forward and losing the cantilever effect will fix that. The rack will have them nearly in line with the rear shocks.
I was thinking of placing 2 of the 4 batts down in the spare tire well, but decided I wanted to retain that space for the tire.
Unfortunately the rack will prevent getting the tire out the usual way, so I'm thinking I'll cut out a section of the bottom of the well, and hinge it to get the wheel out from under the back of the car if needed.