Corvette building

I hope this makes sense.

I built my corvette, was able to upgrade to S class. Had a bunch of augments and opened up all slots available. I have 60 tech slots and they are filled. I need to add weapons.

Some of the slots are taken up by shields that I installed on the outside of my corvette, in the workshop menu.

Can I:

Remove those temporarily, freeing up those tech slots

Install the weapon I want in the freed up slot

Then go into the workshop & install those shields again, while retaining the shield % bonus

Even if it’s not showing up in the tech slot anymore