My 83 driver rwd project

It's always good to get another opinion 

By the time I'm ready for interior my work should be doing carbon fibre so could see a carbon mk1 dash

Great fab work on the cage. Getting tubes to fit together well can be very hard, but your making it look easy  

Matt

Cheers Matt

I'm currently at the 12 hour mark in the cage 

If I was mig welding the cage I reckon I could of shaved a good few hours off
But I'm tig welding it all so flush fit or very minimal gaps mean a lot of tweaking and that's what's taken time

Roll hoop forward I've done the hard bits so next weekend I should get another good bit done 

Yep, mig welding would have been loads quicker. That said, the tig welds will look great when there done  

This is awesome!

Insane and brilliant in one sentence!
Not said that very often but then this is the first time I've read this post!  

Outstanding work mate and I for one will follow this very closely, so thanks for sharing!  

golfcabrio said

Insane and brilliant in one sentence!
Not said that very often but then this is the first time I've read this post!  

Outstanding work mate and I for one will follow this very closely, so thanks for sharing!  

Cheers bud  

A guy at works getting some of his grasser parts zinc coating this week and the price is based on a box full and he's only afty a couple wishbones so I'm looking at getting a few bits done front hubs bonnet catch and slam panel part
Again soon as pics are available I will post em
Best part about it is it's £30 a big box and my bits are costing £10 

Nice one, bargain!

Evening all

Bit more progress this weekend

After some trapped fingers and many swears I managed to remove the cage in 1 piece   
This is the only picture of the removal lol but it was a very precise procedure  


With the cage out I had access to all the joints and able to fully weld it



Couple of hours and it was welded








Nice simple roof cross


And a quick mock up of head clearance with me helmet 
Only had 100mm box but the cage sits 130mm higher then the seat base so will have a good 70-80mm head clearance if I ever decide to track or drag it, my old fiat coupe 20vt was horrendous for head clearance with the same helmet I had to drive with a bent neck not good  


Treat myself to a long acre 17" mirror


Next job remove all the sound deadening 
Learnt the easiest way after doing my track clio gas axe and a scraper 








And all the removed sound deadener must of been a good 8 kilos worth


And back across into other workshop parked up with the dimma


Made good progress on dimma aswell nearly a full hoop forward cage done along with the work on the golf  


Next up is remove the worst of the under seal in the archs and I have a mate who is going to sand blast everything but the exterior panels 

Seeing some of his previous work on rally cars and my work mates dimma it's going to save me a lot of time I've put 3 weeks into what I've removed upto now and there's areas I can't reach with the knot wheel he will have the lot done in a few hours

Cage looks great, well worth all the hours of fettling to get it right  

Your unit looks a great place to be!

Matt

Cheers Matt

It's turned out a lot better then planned upto now 

Yea my works a sweet place 

Top job on the cage, looks lovely

Fantastic looking cage, still trying to work out how you got it out in one piece!

Hairyarse said

Fantastic looking cage, still trying to work out how you got it out in one piece!

Cheers bud

The 1st pic of this weekends progress kinda shows it slid back and dropped 

It's basically just keep dropping it on the back and pushing back until  the hoops rotated 90 * and flat on floor and then lift body over cage   

Still doesn't look possible to me, you must have had Dynamo helping you out!  

Hairyarse said

Still doesn't look possible to me, you must have had Dynamo helping you out!  

  when it goes back in I will make sure I get loadsa pics.   

how is this going?