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Disco internl Cage DONE

Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2004 6:07 am
by DiscoDino
Well,

Been planning and talking (typing) about this for some time, so...after 6 months of research on PBB and here, I asked my brother (architect) to draw up something that I had in mind and send it off to a structural buddy of his...after some ping ponging we got the final drawing and it took me a couple of days to weld it up (using 60x3, 50x3 and 40x3 DOM tube).

I also mounted my summit racing seats on the cage and teh corbeau harnesses - it sure feels tight and secure now...

I also treated myself to a bling bling Momo steering wheel and placed the ARB compressor in the top middle section (as seen in the pics). The steareo and teh ECU will also be placed in that region to ellude water.

Here are the pics:

Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2004 4:20 pm
by landy_man
the bends look very tight or are they all nodes.... closeup pics please

Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2004 5:36 pm
by DiscoDino
Landyman, there are only 3 bends per side. The neouds are at the central junctions and each corner was re-inforced with a gusset.

Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2004 6:09 pm
by landy_man
so instead of bending an a-pillar, b-pillar hoop you have straight tube with nodes... is this correct

Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2004 6:39 pm
by DiscoDino
Yeah...

The 3 bends were made to the 60mm main hoop that goes from the A pillar all the way to the rear wheel wells... the bends were made at the dash kink, the A pillar peak and the B pillar

Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2004 10:43 pm
by N*A*M
stout :cool:

Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2004 11:08 pm
by DiscoDino
Yeah - it sure feels it. Hopefully will never need to find out.

Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2004 10:38 pm
by Phill
where are the pics?

Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2004 10:57 pm
by DiscoDino
Phill,

Dunno where they went... :roll: