65 battery apron in a 62

[pbrown]

I think the 63 is like the 64 and 65. I know it's different than the 60-62.

[Luva65wagon]

Could be. I've only had a 62 and 65. I'll have to go look at that 63 Hardtop again... but man I'm so afraid I'll leave with it.

[Jon Richard]

I'll take pictures as go and share exactly how I do it. Mine is a 1962 2-door wagon and was pretty well hacked so I don't mind modifying it. If it were a prestine example I would be more inclined to preserve it.

[pbrown]

I have a 62 with the battery in the trunk so I don't hav a battery tray in the way. I could take any photos you need or you can drop by and look.

[Jon Richard]

I appreciate that but I'm down in the southern part of the state about 30mi south of LA. It doesn't appear to be that great of a chalenge. I just suspected it might be a popular change over as I'm sure you value the extra room you have gained by moving yours to the trunk. Unfortunately I don't have that option being that it is a wagon.

[Luva65wagon]

I understand the limits of moving anything to a new place in a wagon. Makes life rough for anything you do. More space doesn't necessarily equate to better space. I'm still trying to come up with speaker locations from the doors back without it being a hack-job or have it look too in your face. So far nothing has looked easy to do.

I think the battery tray change should be a very simple conversion since the area under the hood it exactly the same except for that corner. The core support and the fender/grille mounting locations are about the only areas that differ.

Hey, though, I really like your wagon!

[Jon Richard]

Hey, though, I really like your wagon!

Dido, I was concerned about the pimpy wheels as I was more going for the look your sporting. With 12.19" brakes at all four corners I needed at least 16" (those are 17") wheels and I had to have 4.5" back spacing to accommodate 7" wide rims with 215/50/17 tires. 15" steelies w/ whitewalls are my preference.

As far as speakers I am installing a 5x7 dual voicecoil in the stock dash location with a pair of tweaters in the A pillars and run all three off a single 2 channel amp similar to what is discribed here http://www.bcae1.com/ see pg. 94.
Not exactly the same as the 5x7 isn't a sub woofer but the idea is to achieve good sound separation where voice level frequencies will come from center, highs from left/ right, and perhaps a sub in the spare well. My hope is that this will sound good for four passengers.

Anyway I'll post pic's when the battery apron is in.