No effect at all. The steering rack bolts to a long triangular sheet metal part welded across the front trunk floor, and which probably stiffens the front clip. Thats the part that limits the size of the battery hole you can construct without cutting into and weakening the sheet metal rack mount. The rack is bolted to the front bottom side of the triangular sheet metal mount, some 6" away from the battery. The big water transfer tubes pass underneath the battery and its mount. Unbolting the rack drops the rack down & fwd, away from the dropped battery. Bump-steer alterations etc. are also unaffected.
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