thanks you guys i really get alot of good advice on here! so today i attached my battery on a piece of wooden dowel ,wrapped it in foam and carefully slid it back as far as i could it went about 3/4 the way back and fit great (after some fiddeling) i checked my center of gravity now and its just a very little bit tail heavy about 3 1/4 oz squares i sure hate to pull all that out for a little added weight so i need to know where a safe place to mount the weights on the front and do you guys trust the tape on the weights or do you mount them with something else ?