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Modifying the recessed floor in the boot
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If I am correct, there is at least 8 cm of distance between the bottom of the boot floor and the exhaust muffler under it.
So the idea is to cut out the recessed floor section from the boot floor, and then design and make a new deeper (and possibly wider) boot floor and weld it onto the vehicle's body.
The end result should be a significantly deeper and possibly wider recessed floor in the boot, which could actually have some useful storage space.
The only additional things to take care of is to put some heat-resistant and heat-insulating material on the bottom of the new floor, in order to protect it from the heat from the exhaust muffler. And also to figure out a new rubber hanger for the exhaust muffler.
Is there any sense in this idea? Has anyone done this?
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It would be worth looking into.
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edit: Increasing the space in the recess would be even more useful if you had a body lift. You could increase the volume at least as much as the body was lifted.
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You are correct about the muffler hanger going from the chassis. It might still interfere, if the new boot floor is significantly wider. But that can be sorted out somehow.
It's just a matter whether this modification is financially worthwhile, but that is everybody's personal calculation.
So has anybody done (or plans to do) anything similar to this idea?
I agree that a body lift would certainly be very useful in this situation, as long as there are no plans to ever remove the lift.
I suppose that a suspension lift (spacer lift) or installing longer suspension would also provide the same additional space as the body lift of the same height?
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Body lift will gain space between chassis and boot floor
also give more space above rear silencer as it hangs off chassis
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Suspension lifts and longer suspension raise the chassis , and since the body sits on the chassis (that is not altered), the distance of the body from the chassis remains the same, meaning that the distance between the boot floor and the exhaust muffler is not changed ...
So only a body lift contributes to this cause.
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Hi,
I just fabricated this box. As a result I have bigger storage space for tools, etc. and a flat surface when seats are down. Combination of this box and a lowered body panel would significantly improve the boot.
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I have immediately added your solution to the wiki article " Cargo space expansion and management ".
Can you also take a picture of the wooden box closed with the rear seats folded down?
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Full floating rear axle conversion, JB underbody guards & recovery points
ORE transfer box HD brackets
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X-Shock Dakar ceramic clutch kit & roof rack
Flo-Flex castor polybushes
Kumho KL71 tyres
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Push-fit breathers
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Very NiceHUN wrote: I just fabricated this box.
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