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This is copy of the weight and balance performed 4 months ago. The numbers I cited were from the original empty weight and cg computations. There were numerous mathematical computations throughout the life of the aircraft.

I have a 66 M20E. After my last upgrades we did a weight and balance. I was surprised with the outcome. We removed 35lb of gauges,wire, and instruments. We also installed a plane power alternator conversion. The aircraft already had a new style starter. We installed an EI.MVP50 a Garmin aera560. We removed the 2nd vor radio,ADF, loran and DME. When she was new she waighed in at 1633 with cg of 45.7 empty. Now with all this light weight new gear she weighs in at 1671.4 with cg of 48.02. She was painted once in the 80s has led a pamperd life of heated hangers from previous owner of 25 years. I can live with the new empty weight but I can see new limits on my useful load as I will go out the back of the envelope before reaching gross weight . So here is my question. Is it possible to relocate the battery from behind the rear seat to in front of the firewall? We're there Moonies built this way from the factory? I think I have removed so much weight up front and very little aft. Thanks in advance for all your input. I enjoy this forum very much.

Oopsie, I am commenting the wrong video. YouTube sucked me into a stream of videos.

That looks like Concrete WA. 3w5. They have a fly in every July, and there is a cool museum there.

Ok. I can't resist the comment on the gates belt. This is my first post. I am second generation in our family auto parts store. We have sold gates belts for 48 years I think they are as durable as anything you can buy. I enjoy reading these topics. I too just added a Plane Power alternator on my 66 e model.