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Before I started welding the connections, I wanted to do some test pieces to set up the welder correctly, and to find out if it was better to have a gap or not in between the cage tubes. The welder settings are turned up to level 6 for the amps, and level 9 for the wire feed.

A 3, 4 mm gap seems to make the best connection. I've got the welder turned up to level 6, 7 is the maximum, and wire feed to 9.

Thanks for the reactions guys. Bevelling sounds like the right thing to do, albeit that the cage is already in the car with the inner sleeves tacked in. I also do not want to make a cut in the inner sleeve to keep that one as strong as possible. I will make a couple of test welds to see what's...

Which is better for structural strength? With the gap, I can weld the inner sleeve as well, but there is more room between the cage tubes. Without the gap, the cage tubes are closer together, but penetration to the inner sleeve is harder. The holes are there to connect the cage to the sleeves...

They weigh about 6 kg's, I believe, so no point at all.

There, the cage is in, sleeves are on the inside, the first one is in it's final position. The cage weighs 62,5 kg's, the sleeves 1,2 kg's, making total weight savings 179,4 kg's.

Doing prepwork on the cage. Stripping the paint of as it was quite tatty, at the same time, I'm cleaning a lot of weld splatter. Drilled holes in order to weld the sleeves to the cage. I had the sleeves turned down at work to the correct diameter. And the cage material became visible...

No need to apologize, as I don't need to follow a rule book, I was just wondering if they were not to be considered safe, and what the reason might be. To my understanding, the blue book definition of a 3 point seatbelt is a seatbelt as original supplied by the car manufacterer.

What's the reason? Because I have those.

Bought myself a new tool this morning from the local Ebay at 200 metres from my house for 50 Euro's. Not a bad deal if you ask me. Don't know when, but someday I'll need it. :)

Looks good. :)

BIG update. Well, not really, but for my piece of mind it is. :p I finally got to the stage where I needed to cut the cage up, in order to get it into the car. Will this work, has gone through my mind since I've bought the bloody thing. So, I've been measuring, and made a carboard template...

I closed up some holes on the interior. Next update will involve the actual roll cage, as this was the last thing I needed to do before getting to the cage work. I also needed to remove a piece of heat shielding for the welding, and as I needed to cut it off, I decided it wouldn't go back on...

Wow, that's shifting fast

What's the difference? And where did you get the replacement parts?

Whoops. :whistle: I got the other one out in one piece though. They weigh 2,9 kg's a piece. Total weight saving 241,5 kg's.

I took out the seam sealant in the interior. It was quite a job, but at the same time, it's quite therapeutical seeying all the sealant fly away. The car is a complete mess. I'm a mess. :LOL::ROFLMAO: The garage is a mess. Even managed to get the stuff on the roof. :oops: But the...

It's the best weight per pound ratio.

Do you put an isolator only in the plus cable, or in the earth cable as well?

I completely forgot to add that the drivers seat is already at the scrapyard, which makes total weight saving 235,7 kg's. The goal is to take as much weight out as needed to compensate the weight of the cage. Don't know if that's realistic, but we'll see. :)

Making progress. I took out the last interior brackets that I will not be needing again, which cleans up the dash quite a bit. Total weight saving 215,7 kg's.

Small update. I took out the wind shield today. I bought a tool for it. Hoping it was going to be easy. I pushed the tool through the rubber, pulled, and nothing. :oops: Now, I weigh 110 kg's, I benchpress 100 kg's, so I'm thinking, what the f**k. :oops::mad: After a bit of swearing, and...

Can anybody tell me how I remove the front window? Haynes says I should go to an expert, but as the windscreen is cracked already, I want to have a go myself. I want to save the plastic parts around the window though.

That's a really nice sponsorship deal. (y)

I always wonder how you get the car that high in the air with these things?

I took a bit of metal out of the interior. It was a lot of work with all the spotwelds, and the parts that came out didn't feel like they had any weight at all. But when you add them all up, it shows that every little bit helps. In total, the metal parts were 6 kg's to be exact, which...

The reason for posting was more the lack of information given by the OP, despite being asked several times. For me, that's enough reason to look further.

https://www.cliosport.net/threads/anybody-interested-in-clio-172-fully-adjustable-wishbones.680255/

New wheels for the GTI.

I think it was the Isofix bar, because if I remember correct, one of the bolts snapped when I removed the Isofix bar. As I don't have back seats or an Isofix bar anymore, that means the plates can go. If someone thinks they have a structural function, please comment.