Moving on from the front suspension it was time to continue with the fabrication and move on to the roll cage. This was going to have to be strong and had to meet rules and regulations for Bonneville and for drag racing in the UK so a lot of lengths of 1 5/8" cds2 was purchased.
Before we could start assembling the cage there were a couple of things that needed doing. First problem was not actually owning a mandrel bender to make the tight bends so a quick trip to Robinson Race Cars and they kindly made the four tight bends that I would be needing, the rest I could do with my hydraulic pipe bender.
The main hoop was trial fitted. After tweaking some extra bends in it at shoulder hight to follow the profile of the car it was tacked to it's mounting plate. To get the postion correct we tacked a bar across the car and then cable tied the hoop to it.
The two rear bars tacked into place...
Now, becaust the rear axle is narrowed and the chassis rails are quite close together this meant that the bars met the main hoop at the top a good 6" inboard of the corners which isn't strong enough so I needed to make a rear cross as well.
Once fabricated I tacked it into place..
Once fabricated I tacked it into place..
Then I took the cross shape out in one piece and welded it out of the car.
Once back in it looked like this...
Once back in it looked like this...
Continued in Part Two...
