Some of you guys might remeber me talking about building my roll cage. Well here is some pictures. Its not 100% done but most of the hard work is. Im still need to weld in the diagonal bars from the main hoop to the floor. I also need to x-brace the doors and extend the cage into the engine bay, but as you can see its comming along nicely. Its a custom 1 off piece i built. I dont have any interior, but im thinking i left enough clearence to install all the plastics and the headliner. All the points to the floor and the a-pillar to halo, and halo to main hoop are mig welded, all the others are tig. Anyway here are the pics

 

looking good.

 

wow that looks awesome.

do you plan on installing a full interior ?

 

full interiour plastics, a carpet, twin kirkey drag seats, and a aluminum dash and door panels. in case you guys missed the other thread here are a couple pics of the body

 

looks like it is comin along well. What kinda steering column you gonna run?

 

ill probably go with a flaming river

 

That looks killer !!

Mild steel tubing or .. is that.. chromemoly ? What size thickness ?

 

looks nice, but it looks like the people in the back seat will have a biotch of a time trying to sit comfortably. LOL

 

I think it looks fantastic, and is all a bad *** idea ASIDE from the aluminum dash.

 

looks that that we'll be nice when its done, good luck

 

Dude, someone stole your wheels!

 

MS 1 5/8 .134 wall

 

it will look nice

 

 

TIG welded .. or what ?


Reason I asked whether it was mild steel or not ... that looks real sleek ...not just huge and fat but real clean

 

the welds from the main hoop to the halo, halo to the a-pillar bars, the a-pillar bars, main hoop bars the floor, x-brace and the hoop diagonal bars to the floor are all mig welded, all the rest are or will be tig. The reason they where mig weled id the gaps where more that a 1/8 inch in spots so Tiging it would be a bitch

 

Thats one clean car and cage install!

Maybe you can do the alum. dash, but mock the normal dash pad over the aluminum lol

 

Would a really good arc welder be able to handle the job ?

 

It's hard to lay a good bead with an arc welder. It can be done with any welder, it's the amount of grinding you'll do after that will suck

 

Yup kinda figured that .. heh

 

no i dont thnk so

 

Ya gonna polish that dash?

 

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How did you clean the frame so well prior to painting?