Cage Part 2

Over the past few days I have been fabricating the seat mounts for the cage. The concept is pretty simple, the seats sit on two pieces of cage tubing that stretch from one door bar to the other. I connected the two pieces of cage tubing with 1.5" Angle for the seat sliders to sit on. Here's a pic of the mounts finished:This setup keeps the seats up off of the floor and ties them into the cage for strength. Next are some pictures with the seats and console set. Here's a Front/Top view of the whole thing put together:
I chose gray over black for the seats so they will stay cooler in the summer with the top off. The ammo box fits just right for a small console between the two seats. Here's a picture from behind showing how the diagonals will be in the right position to tie in the shoulder harnesses.

All that I have left to do on the cage now is to drill the mounting holes for the seats, add tabs for the harnesses, and clean it up and paint it... I got word today that the quarter panels will ship today, and I should be ordering a transmission soon.

That's all for now!

Roll Cage part 1

Since I'm still waiting on my new quarter panels to come in to finish the tub up, I decided to start working on the cage. The cage that was in the second tub I got was in fair condition but wasn't quite as beefy as I'd like. Also, I needed somewhere to mount harnesses, and wanted to tie the new seats into the cage. Here's where it stands right now:

The black parts are what I started with, and the blue tubes are what has been added so far. the tubes are blue because I'm recycling them from the cage I built for my Jeep. I decided to add the door bars to mount the seats to and also to add a bit more protection to the door area since I plan to run no doors most of the time. Next, I added the diagonals to the B hoop to tie the shoulder harnesses into without impeding access to the back too much. Finally, I added the two spreaders between the A and B hoops. My seats should be in tomorrow so I can finish up with the seat mounts and get the thing cleaned up and painted.

Finally, I had to include the required weld closeup shot. Not too bad eh?

I'll post more up when I get the seats in and the mounts fabricated. That's all for now...