My hillclimber in the making (998 Turbo) - Gone
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Starting to be able to do stuff on the car again, just light stuff but hey it's progress.

I decided that my street fighter doors were too heavy so I made a few holes in them:

wheres the holes in the glass frame,?.lol

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lol.

you could have got another 3 or 4 holes on that curved section right at the front there.

Not very exciting but I re-did one of my rear arches as I wasn't overly happy with the way it turned out first time round:

Well after running off to the Alps, rebuilding the rear suspension & fixing all the oil leaks on the MG, and generally procrastinating I've made a bit more progress on the clubby and started on the cage:



divine intervention it get things started, or rather sun light and smoke from fitting the mounting plates



notching the first tube after



test fit for the hundredth time



and finally the main hope and one door hoop thing welded in, just another 33 more bars to go!

EDIT: Sorry about the crappy pictures but it's the best my camera phone can do.

Edited by Rob H on 14th Apr, 2009.

Wow good luck man, one tip leave the door cross bars till last as it kills your back clambering over them millions on times getting in and out to cut and test bars.

Thanks for the tip, I've found the pictures in your's and Andy's build threads to be really use full.



Got the other side in and the dash bar is ready to go, just need to check the height.

Well decided to drop the dash rail a lot, ended up sitting in the car with the steering column moving the dash bar up and down until I got a position that was comfortable. Anyway here are some pictures of todays progress:

Looking really nice - good work bud.

Looks wicked Rob, i'm planning to get the "pod" dash aswell, is that a curley one?

Looking good.

good work rob, is your mit back to 100% now?

"Turbo's make torque, and torque makes fun"

"did you know you can toast potato waffles?"

fair dues, who needs straight fingers anyway?!

"Turbo's make torque, and torque makes fun"

"did you know you can toast potato waffles?"

and maybe typists..





















......and pianists, and probably trumpet players, and of course the deaf signer on the bottom of hollyoaks, and karate chopper's, high fiver's......hmmmm, sorry rob :(

"Turbo's make torque, and torque makes fun"

"did you know you can toast potato waffles?"

Good think I'm tone deaf and lack any sense of rhythm or my dreams of becoming a concert pianist would have been ruined.

Any way I managed a bit more on the car:



Made up some gussets for the A pilers



Had a play with the seat and harness mounting although I doubt the broom will pass scrutineering.

EDIT: can people let me know there thoughts on putting a bar across the main hoop for the harness.





And finished my custom subframe mounts with built in spacers to lower the body in relation to the subframe.

Edited by Rob H on 30th Mar, 2009.

what hill climb are you going to do

Rob, am sure the harness bar goes in the cross bars going to the rear arches., i should of looked at either any or advantages pics

Rick

The cage isn't really designed for a harness bar, I used andy's great idea of welding in threaded inserts to bolt the harness to.

hmmm gussets

am i understanding the subframe mounts right, your raising the subframe in relation to the car yeh?

Thats where i ended upputting my dash bar, its just clears under the column.