Has anyone installed the Vespa non-folding rear rack on their GTS and gotten the OEM top box to fit with it? I ordered one from ScooterWest and got it yesterday. Their website does say "You may have to file or cut down two small protruding holes on the bottom of your original Vespa top case to work with this rack. " But there's no "might" about it, and they aren't "small protruding holes", they're bloody big with a metal insert.
I can grind them down, I guess -- doesn't seem to be any alternative (the Vespa folding rear rack costs more than twice as much!). But I'm wondering if that's going to affect the structural integrity of the box. Plus it looks like the only way to attach the box, once you can get it to fit on the rack, is by drilling a hole in the middle above where there is a threaded hole in the rack. But that section of the box doesn't seem to have any reinforcement to it -- I'm worried the box will flex and fail at that point.
Anyone done this? Am I being a sissy worry-wart here and should just shut up and do it?
Thanks.
-Dan