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roll cage for 92 soft top sierra

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roll cage for 92 soft top sierra

Post by chunkz »

gday...
i have searched the forums and after 10 pages have found pretty much squat.
Does any one have any info on them?
make your on?
any pics?

any help is appreciated.... cheers
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Post by waxhead.. »

I have an internal 4 pointer that you can have for $100, bolts, brackets and all.
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Post by chunkz »

hey dude...
do you have pictures of it...
and how much would it cost to send down from gold coast to melb
cheers
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Post by waxhead.. »

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It was in my bro's coily, then my 91, never been in a roll, has had a fresh coat of gloss black since the pic.
No idea on freight cost.
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Post by Krankieone »

not to much info on cages, some on pirate 4x4.com and some US sites I just bought a pipe bender this week I plan to build one in the next few weeks
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Post by alien »

dont like the idea of bolting to the body.. if it actually rolled it would just rip out the bolts on the body...

better to have it go through to the chassis.

also - an exo one will certainly save the body, internal only helps the passenger and driver =)
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Post by suzi_on_46s »

i dont think he will do much rolling on 31s, unless he is realy hardcore
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Post by nicbeer »

suzi_on_46s wrote:i dont think he will do much rolling on 31s, unless he is realy hardcore


I dunno. i have come close a couple times. Any thing is possible.

Wait till ur out on the trails.

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Post by camor »

i run 31 st's, and have rolled once. low speed up at mundaring. actually it was just after my avatar pic was taken. work at a handrail company so bent up my own and welded it at home. sorry, dont have any pics but it is not hard to make them. mine comes inside the wheel arches mounting to the floor, and the rear 2 mounts bolt into the rear seatbelt bolts. certainly adds peace of mind.
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Post by chunkz »

suzi_on_46s wrote:i dont think he will do much rolling on 31s, unless he is realy hardcore


or a dickhead? :lol: :lol:
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Post by waxhead.. »

dont like the idea of bolting to the body.. if it actually rolled it would just rip out the bolts on the body...


A friend of mine ended up on his roof three weeks ago, down a rockface ago with an alum bar similar to this bolted to the wheel arches and his car broke the coily windscreen surround and only brusied the B-pillar. Bolting to the body in most cases will do the job.

Both the roll bar and body where it bolted into are good as new.
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Post by Rhett »

I rolled mine end for end on 30s with a four pointer just mounted on the tub it held up fine. You can drive a suzi easyly hard engouh to roll on 31s
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Post by largesuzy »

waxhead.. wrote:
dont like the idea of bolting to the body.. if it actually rolled it would just rip out the bolts on the body...


A friend of mine ended up on his roof three weeks ago, down a rockface ago with an alum bar similar to this bolted to the wheel arches and his car broke the coily windscreen surround and only brusied the B-pillar. Bolting to the body in most cases will do the job.

Both the roll bar and body where it bolted into are good as new.

that was a spactacular role over
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Post by Ric »

just make sure you have plates above and below the body where its bolted.
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Post by Bentzook »

I rolled a zook ute on 235s at Wirriba Ridge at 1am in the morning,on a nasty bend, the same place the Bushdriver magazine crew rolled almost 15 years ago.
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Post by munga »

alien wrote:dont like the idea of bolting to the body.. if it actually rolled it would just rip out the bolts on the body...

better to have it go through to the chassis.

also - an exo one will certainly save the body, internal only helps the passenger and driver =)


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Post by superzuki »

hehe i rolled last weekend...no roll bar the bpillar was strong enough...i recon one bolted to the body wil be sweet unless u decide to roll at 100+kms anhour...........only a few dents wer sufered n my roll.
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Post by superzuki »

ps.....i was on 30s :D
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Post by waxhead.. »

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Thats the roll I was refering to, and the roll bar was only plated on top of the wheel arches.
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Post by suz_rolly »

roll over at 40 on dirt with a 3inch roll bar bent the top of the roll bar over 200mm with out that i would of been stuffed

better safe than sorry
bigger thicker better big plates on mounting poins

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Post by chunkz »

which are tek screws

which is the best way to mount the plates to the wheel arches?
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Post by markil »

chunkz wrote:which are tek screws

which is the best way to mount the plates to the wheel arches?


teck screws self drill themselves through metal. they are used on colourbond fencing etc

plates should be mounted on both sides of the sheetmetal on the body and bolted together so the body is sandwiched between the plates.

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Post by suz_rolly »

markil wrote:
chunkz wrote:which are tek screws

which is the best way to mount the plates to the wheel arches?


teck screws self drill themselves through metal. they are used on colourbond fencing etc

plates should be mounted on both sides of the sheetmetal on the body and bolted together so the body is sandwiched between the plates.

Mark.


high tensile bolts about 1/2 inch

i used 6mm plates about 75x150mm top and bottom
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Post by ausyota »

I think I remember (maybe) reading somewhere that the plates top and bottom of the floor should be made different sizes so as to stop the floor shearing along the edge of the plates on impact.
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Post by mud4b »

minimum size for the plates to be legal are 100mm x 100mm..
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Post by NUGGS »

This was the result of a rollover at about 60-70kms/hr on a limestone track in WA - new years day 96. Stock standard zuk, in fact bought brand new only a month or two before. It was my first experience with a sierra let alone 4WDriving. Swore i'd never buy one myself - since owned two :D I was in the front passenger seat.
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Post by nicbeer »

Ouch, musta been the pines. What he do to make it roll?

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Post by NUGGS »

Almost, out the back of malaga before it was all factories. Just caused by inexperience, trying to swerve around potholes going way to fast, overcorrected and bang. They reckon it rolled five - six times to land where it did.

I come off with a fractured verterbrae, shoulder blade snapped in two and handful of stitches in me head - lucky to be alive!!
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Post by alien »

if that aint an ad for a good roll cage i dunno what is =)
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Post by No Idea »

80ks on the Great western highway, a dumbass changed lanes without looking (busy on his mobile phone) and i was airborne for about 10 metres until i landed on the drivers side windscreen pillar and slid for about 40 metres until i hit the back of a garbage truck.

No injuries just hurt pride.
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