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I have had some quotes for powder coating and it is over £240 inc removing the tyres to do it fluorescent orange, I went to see city powder coaters but the orange is not the same, so I am having a go myself with rattle cans.
Worst case I mess it up and it costs me £30 in paint then get them done...
Do a search there are a few posts about which ones fit, it is a first line one that fits the cup packed cars, I brought the Renault ones as they are better quality than the other inner rods
You should have a spreader plate with welded nuts on for the inside of the arch and the foot on the cage just sits on top of the arch, so it sandwiches the arch
(I assume this is a SD cage)
First thing you want to do is fit the spreader plates to the floor with a angle grinder (as you can see in my picture it follows the shape of the floor)
prep the floor for welding, grind all paint off, I primed the floor before welding with UPOL #2 to stop rust...
The SD cage does fit with the standard door cards but it just touches where the arm rest is.
No real problems with wires just remember if you are disconnecting something take photos and label them for reference later.
I tided the wires up in the back as they looked a mess fed the drivers side...
Don't rely on a email reply, he never got back to me with email when I had my Milltek modified, I just tried calling him every day until he answered.
It is only him so computer takes a back seat to phone calls (bit like BTM)
Weld in cage is always better but they do cost a fortune, what will that cage cost you by the time it is fitted and painted about £2500?
I went for the safety devices bolt in cage but at least you know it is a good cage, designed properly and manufactured to standard for safety not just made in...
@LeeRS My mate tried to call him today be there is nobody there, when that happens he is usually doing some contract welding work at oil companies so you need to keep trying over a week or so.
Its the angle of the sides of the jack, it will go so far but not quite far enough
heres a couple of pictures as you can see it needs to go about 5 inches further in.
Just get a piece of wood longer than the gap and fit it at a angle and tap it down until it spreads the legs into the correct position.
or a piece of wood against the one leg and a bottle jack against the other
I have cooksports and my jack will not quite get to the chassis rail or triangle but jacking off the sill is not really a problem with a large saddle as it is spreading the load, it only starts to bend when used with the small 2inch saddles.
I use a bit of wood to drive on if I need to jack off...
I attempted to make some fiber glass ones (like the cup racer) but it went badly wrong as I did not have a clue what I was doing lol
so after that I just went simple and got some Ducting off ebay for about £10 Ducts from JJC about £20 mounted them inside the fog light surround and made some...