American Rally 86 UPDATE

[cozmo]

nice work keep it up

coz

[jeffjam]

What brand cage is that? Is it custom made or from a cage manufacturer?

[dazed_driver]

It's custom. My Dad and I built it. I designed it to FIA standards (only with US DOM tube sizing legal for our rules... its hard to get CDS here.... ) He figured the angles out, I bent it, he notched it, then I tig welded it.

[dazed_driver]

The car is finally on the rotisserie, now I can finish the underside with ease and get this shell painted!

[dazed_driver]

Just a bit of roll over escape practice






I'm in the hat, for anyone curious haha. The other guy is my co driver/ minion

[dazed_driver]

And a little bit more...

I've been working really hard lately, but on boring stuff like wire wheeling undercoating off and stitch welding. It's really not that exciting, so, I didn't update. The inside was stitched long ago before I caged it, but I waited on the bottom. Now it's done.

Cleaning off the undercoating...





Some stitch welding




I also finished the fuel cell mount's false floor/mud keeper outter parts haha


Welded up the drainage holes in the floor....






Got the front and rear pin mounts finished. Ok, I lied. The rears need to be radiused a bit on the outside, as they are kinda pokey on the top, due to the angle they come out of the sill... and all four need to be hit with a brake hone.

Front

And, yes, I know this is the same pic, but that little round nub poking through is the pin mount's edge. Tied into the cage so its nice and strong.


Rear



Welded the strut reinforcement bars to the wheel well sheetmetal


Dual master cylinder reinforcement plate. It's not totally done yet. I still need the tube that goes from the middle of this to the strut tower to keep this in place!

(it might be sideways... sorry. I thought I fixed it through photobucket... but it doesnt seem to be working)


And thats it for now. The 4 link boxes STILL need to be finished... but soon I'll be painting this thing! And then its wiring and plumbing, and installing and ugh, more work

[NoHachi]

Very cool! such an inspiration.

[dazed_driver]

Got the driver's side rear shock turret ALL the way done I'll get the left done when I get it scribed. I'm tired and hungry, so I took a break.





well, actually, I'll probably weld some sheet metal over the angled sides of the tube. I've just thought of this. lol

More to come!

[Drift Student]

oooo nice work man you are kickin asses ! good job mate ! i'm a huge fun of "build it yourself" nice nice !

[dazed_driver]

Here's the other side done