kary993

Here are the in process of the work pictures I posted before:

http://members.rennlist.com/kary993/cage1.JPG

http://members.rennlist.com/kary993/cage2.JPG

http://members.rennlist.com/kary993/cage3.JPG

Here are the finished pictures (roughly the same picture angles to compare):

http://members.rennlist.com/kary993/cage1new.JPG

http://members.rennlist.com/kary993/cage2new.JPG

http://members.rennlist.com/kary993/cage3new.JPG

This sure was too much work, but it is done and the car has been transformed in the handling department given the stiffness!

Enjoy!

Cy

Kary,

That looks very nicely done. With the tie-ins to the b-pillars, the extra trusses in the rear corners, and all the cross bracing I can imagine that's really stiffened up the car and is grear for safety. Although, hopefully you'll only ever enjoy the handling benefits and won't get to test it for satefy!

Regards,

mr_bock

Top notch job, excelent joint construction!!!
Safety at it's best. Thanks for the pictures.

Benton

Kary,
When they painted the DOM, did they remove all of the brown grease? I have some DOM and I'm wondering how I'm going to get all of that junk off before I paint it.

Also, how did they weld the joints between the roof and the cage?

poorb0yw

Lookin good Kary.
Do you still have all the heater ducting running through the side frame rails?

kary993

CY & mr_bock,
Thanks for the compliments. It was a long road as I did most of the work. Never again.... I was just putting on the SFI 45.1 rated foam on the roll cage in certain places where it is possible to hit myself in an incident. I noticed that I hit my left knee on the door cage cross during the 2 days so I am going to put some padding there as well.

Red,
I painted the cage and interior so I removed any oil on the steel and cleaned up the joints. As it turned out there really was not much in the way of grease on the joints. could be the type of welder used possibly.

Poorb0yw,
Yes, I still have AC and heat in the car so I do have the ducting still. Some day when I am looking for some more weight reduction I will remove all the AC and heat stuff. I was pleasantly surprised by the performance of the car in terms of the weight reduction, I did well at the last event. More weight reduction might be on call soon

Flying Finn

Nice job!

kary993

Thanks Finn! Maybe after I let some time pass I will be willing to do more work on the car. As it is now I am tired and just having fun driving the car on the track!