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[benjy_18]

Yeah all the welds inside will be getting some treatment from a flap wheel! Just couldn't be bothered with the noise at the time aha

[benjy_18]

It's been a good few days, roll cage is almost finished along with all the repair work to the passenger side, here's a few photos for you


Dash bar in


Part one of the door bar


And a cheeky photo of my carbon a panels laid in place

[benjy_18]

More progress today, mostly grinding down welds and generally cleaning things up.

However I have managed to finish the passenger side of the cage, all that's left is a little bit on the rear arch mountings and I've made up some new harness bars that will mount higher on the cage itself




Comments welcome!
Ben

[Minidarren83]

That is looking awesome you must own the worlds supply if cds tube and the better notcher ever lol

[benjy_18]

I still have 6m of it left! Don't really need it now either haha

Notcher isn't brilliant to be honest, but it does the job!
It's just an Eastwood Notcher that frost sell

[benjy_18]

Mostly just prepping the interior for paint today, still more to do but I fancied a bit of metal fab!

The inner wings (what's left of them) looked unfinished so I got some 15mm tube I has laying around and put at 85 degree bend in them and will use them to top off the inner wing



Cometuesdaythe inside should be in a few coats of primer!!!

[mini93]

I was going to do my inner wings that way, I decided another route for it for no particular reason, so will be interesting to see them when you are done.

 

Cage has come on well there too.

[Domneon]

Its looking great mate

[benjy_18]

Cheers guys!

Front of the floors is finished and been sealed so just some more to do on the back then I can prime the whole interior




Sorted the inner wings today, came out quite nice, and very strong

[jonny f]

Updates coming fast! good work

[benjy_18]

Cheers jonny, updates will slow again as I'm back to work tomorrow!

I did get the other inner wing finished today though, no photos as it's identical to the side shown above!

Will be trying to do a few little bits each evening again but I can't be too noisy unfortunately

[jonny f]

Ahh that's a shame. You building the cage to any regulations?

[benjy_18]

The cage is built to FIA standards, but only as far as thickness and materials go. I don't plan on entering any series so as long as it's safe and passes scrutineering at track days I don't mind.

[leaky]

Looking good man! Work is top notch as always!

[adam26y]

Looking really good dude! Couple of questions. Will the exhaust exit points burn any paintwork surrounding it? Or are you going to high temp that part.

And because you've brought the rear boxes up so high will the pipe running from manifold hit anything? I'm only asking as I want to do something similar with a single box. I've been thinking for a while how I would do it and one idea was to do exactly as you have and bring it through the floor.