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It's been a ton of extra work, but I made new sill bars and X braces, and am just starting to catch back up to where I was a couple weeks ago. We went from this: https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/409/31670666116_fabd851237_b.jpg to this: https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/415/31919929511_f3934a8b0d_b.jpg It ...

Good catch. In the photo, the sill bar is at the stock 'frame rail' height. We're in the process of moving the whole floorline of the car around 5cm higher than that. It meant cutting the main hoop diagonals back out again, and coping new ones. I'll call that an hour well spent, but it means the X i...

My friend Mike and I started off by finishing coping for the dash bar, which looks pretty much ready to tack in place now. https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5788/30865094644_a8cda62193_b.jpg After lunch, Mike took care of the sill bar coping and I took care of the bent door bars. They aren't quite ready...

Rabbit Farmer wrote:Door lock is staying on the door. Makes sense to me in emergency situations.

Emergency situations?

After a recommendation from Tom @ Wicked, I tried out Choice Metals in Goffstown for this latest order. They're really close to me, their prices were competitive, and they got the material out very quickly (free shipping since I'm so close).

Finally, everything's aligned and tack welded into place. I spent most of the day fine-tuning fitment so it's symmetrical on both sides and so I have as much headroom as possible, but the results are worth it. https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5775/31030115640_d13fdc5849_b.jpg All told, I bent 6 'not qu...

I didn't really plan to get anything done today, just clean up the shop a bit in preparation for the weekend. Man, was I wrong. I nailed the passenger side A pillar so nicely, I decided to make another driver's side replacement ... but twisted the wrong way, which resulted in another perfect passeng...

That's interesting. I'm really glad Steve asked now!

I'm using Larson's old seat, which is expired so I'll need to add the rear reinforcement to the cage. I'll probably just run the harness bar behind the main hoop, with bends at each end of it. Nothing too fancy there.

I finally test-fit the A pillars for real, and found that I was dead-on ... on one plane. The other plane didn't go quite so well. https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5788/30471995473_a5d3f91571_b.jpg For the second version, I'd like to add another bend just before the A pillars intersect with the main ho...