Full cage and no rear bulkhead
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Has anybody got a full cage fitted and has taken out thier rear bulkhead?

when you removed the bulkhead did you loose the toightness (just made my own word) of the ass end?

what other bits any bobs are you running? eg any rear strut bar/ roll bar/ pillar strengthening?

basically i would like to know your set-up and your opinions of how it effected your car, also what you use the car for? does it see a track alot?

me and Andre have been talking about it quite alot since his post earlier and after alot of thinking and ideas came to the conclusion that it would loose quite alot of stiffness, and the amount of bars etc that you would need to put in to stiffen it back up would weigh more than what you have taken out!

discussion commence.................hopefully..........

Big JF said he ruined his car by taking it out

Paul

I seriously doubt it!

did he have a cage in?

Yup

I seriously doubt it!

pretty much what we thought.

and then the weight of the brace bars to stiffen it all up + tieing them into the cage + an alluminium firewall for the tank would more than likely weigh more than the standard item!

just after some opinions on the whole thing is all.

As said in the other thread, I have removed mine and not noticed any considerable movement in the back end. I have very lightweigth box section tying the struts together and the persepx rear screen is bolted in which may help.

However - it is an autotest car so no high speed track action with high cornering forrces. Although the back end is put under a lot of stress with handbrake maneouvres! There is no evidence of movement from crakced paint etc.

I would instead of having arms going to the rear arch have them going to the suspension mounts, then brace accross these from side to side. and another arm going to the bottom of the cage by the feet.

id also weld tabs into your cage and bolt it upto the top seatbelt mounts on the b piller.

id then double skin the heal board.

but your still going to have to have a bulkhead for the fuel tank.

by doing it to reduce weight is pointless as the weight of the extra cage parts would be more then you take out.