does anyone have any ideas of how to fix the battery tray rust through? mine is completely rusted through the wheel well. and i need to repair it, inexpensively mind you! im not one for OEM looks, so it can be ugly, it just has to be functional ( in other words i wanna fix it and still have the battery tray there) the battery tray itself is pretty rusted too...

Lets see u can do alot of things. You could cut out the area from a donor car and weld it in place after cutting the thing out. or simply repair the area with some steel and a welder. Switch to a optimal battery or somethign similar so it won't happen again. Also i think there a few threads on this already

my ignorance has been dually noted..... please hang up and try again.j/k . thanks never thought about slicing and dicing a donor (which i have 2 of) i was going to go that steel plate route, but didnt think of how to bend the metal...

got a spare i could have?

I believer there are( or were) some companies that make repair panels for the Z. One made repair panels for the fenders. They might have a replacement for ther battery area. Before cutting up a (good) car, check this out first.

Maybe somebody knows the name of that repair panel Company. You might search for 'fender repair'

tabco body parts but no battery area

Right, ATABCO makes some repair panels.

It looks likethis is your chance to learn how to hammer metal. Get yourself a side of a refrigerator or electric stove, and learn yourself to hammer & bend metal

hmm.... i do werk at an appliance warehouse...do i need any special tools to do this? hammer and screwdriver...?

try a pneumatic nibbler or cutoff wheel.