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Surely what you can see in the pictures are feet Olly? Just instead of the plates being welded to the floor and then the cage bolted to them, the cage is welded to the plates, and the plates to the floor?
P.S not looking to pick a fightlol , just how I would look at it!
There should be extra plates welded to the floor as well. Its bolted to thin metal and could quite easily pull through in an accident
spreader plates are on there. im not a ****ing idiot
no one said you were an ****ing idiot Mike, it was a serious question.
the metal around you rear legs doesn't look likes its been welded at all. the cage feet appears to be simply bolted through the car metal.
there certainly hasn't been a spreader plate on welded to the inside of the car, nor does it appear to have been on the outside, hence my question :confused:
ben - don't get ya mate, yes the rollcage has feet - but you should weld spreader plates to the shell before fitting a cage.
there are 6 six spreader plates, roughly 5mm larger in area than the feet, welded to the floor on the underside of the cage, which are also bolted to the cage feet. I didnt have the height to weld them to the inside of the shell as the main hoop was forced too far up and hit the sunroof rails.
Is it wrong to put them on the underside?? ive built 2 XR2s this way, one of which was actually rolled, and didnt have any problems.
Nope, its not wrong at all :thumb: they can be on either the inside or outside of the car.
It just didn't appear to have any fitted, as usually you see blistering from the welds if they've been welded on the outside.
Not wishing to throw petrol on the fire Oli but whilst you are technically correct i think you maybe being a bit overly belt and braces in your approach. Taking all things into account such as lightening the car etc and what its going to end up doing (probably not rallying) I would say that the way that has been bolted in will be adequate to protect for most realistically expected circumstances. It would have to be one helluva an incident to shove those feet through and in any event it perfectly possible to go trackdaying in a car with no cage fitted at all. So all in all it looks coo and its defo safer with it than without:)
theres lots of blistering under the mats, and behind the seats at the main hoop (which hasnt been bolted through yet) but the rear wheel wells have been re-painted since. its all good :thumb:
:thumb: wasn't picking holes by any stretch, just didn't want it to have been accidently overlooked, which it obviously hasn't :)
Charles - totally appreciate what you're saying, I would hope/ should hope that most of the track cars that have cages to them, would ever need to know if the cages work perfectly or not! god forbid! :)
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Originally Posted by trackdaynova