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Old Mar 15, 2009 | 06:14 PM
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Just got my roll cage installed by sickspeedperformance.com.The bar is actually from wolfe racecraft. Heres Some pictures. I painted it myself. It took me a few hours last night to just tape everything off. Let me know what you think. The one picture of the weld just has some dust on it.



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Old Mar 15, 2009 | 06:31 PM
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looks real good. black is always a good color for roll bars.
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Old Mar 15, 2009 | 07:11 PM
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nice cage...sickspeedperformance is a class act and very good at what they do
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Old Mar 16, 2009 | 06:56 AM
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Looks good, I want a similar setup.
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Old Mar 17, 2009 | 05:51 PM
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you sprayed it? what did you use?
looks good.
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Old Mar 17, 2009 | 06:34 PM
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you sprayed it? what did you use?
looks good.
The longest part by far was taping everything off so overspray didnt get all over everything (doorpanels windshield etc.) including exterrior. I used 3 cans of duplicolor spray paint and on top of that a can of duplicolor clear.
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Old Mar 17, 2009 | 06:44 PM
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looks real good glad to see some safety wen i saw the car run i couldnt believe you had no cage
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Old Mar 17, 2009 | 07:32 PM
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cage looks great......
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awesome man! mild steel or chrommoly?
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Looks good. I'm curious how that paint holds up, I've heard good and bad, never really got a clear answer on how durable it is. Looks like it went on nice.
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awesome man! mild steel or chrommoly?
chromoly man, weight is the name of the game lol I actually just got a replacement carpet from speedinc. Some guy said it wieghs 9 lbs with no padding. I pulled all of the padding off and its not no 9 lbs lol

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Looks good. I'm curious how that paint holds up, I've heard good and bad, never really got a clear answer on how durable it is. Looks like it went on nice.
Yeah i hope it holds up too. Price wise i believe its as expensive as rust-oleum . I think the 2 coats of clear will help it hold a bit more ?
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looks good. did you just put alot of paint over the weld? it seems really smooth. by the way, its not a cage, its a roll bar.
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Originally Posted by MuscleLs1Power
chromoly man, weight is the name of the game lol I actually just got a replacement carpet from speedinc. Some guy said it wieghs 9 lbs with no padding. I pulled all of the padding off and its not no 9 lbs lol



Yeah i hope it holds up too. Price wise i believe its as expensive as rust-oleum . I think the 2 coats of clear will help it hold a bit more ?
Ozite carpet is the lightest way to go. The carpet in my car ws 7 lbs shipped with a mile of plastic on it, and I only used about 75% of what they sent me. Probably less then 5 lbs in the car.

I wanted to use regular spray paint because it lays on the rollbar good, but was concerned about how durable it was. That being said, I ended up using a urethane/epoxy paint on my cage, that is very durable, and when applied in light coats with a foam brush will lay on pretty good. Not quite as nice as spraying it, but it's tough as nails and has held up great.
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Plus going on with the brush there's none of the headaches with overspray.
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Old Mar 19, 2009 | 10:59 AM
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Originally Posted by JL ws-6
Ozite carpet is the lightest way to go. The carpet in my car ws 7 lbs shipped with a mile of plastic on it, and I only used about 75% of what they sent me. Probably less then 5 lbs in the car.

I wanted to use regular spray paint because it lays on the rollbar good, but was concerned about how durable it was. That being said, I ended up using a urethane/epoxy paint on my cage, that is very durable, and when applied in light coats with a foam brush will lay on pretty good. Not quite as nice as spraying it, but it's tough as nails and has held up great.
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Hey JL, do you remember exactly what you used to paint? I was gonna use brush on POR-15 when the time comes, but always open to more options.
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I have the can at home, I'll take a look and let you know. It's actually a urethane/epoxy paint used for boats made by 3M if I remember correctly. Thick as hell, and you have to brush it on.

Stuff is tough **** that I can guarintee. You can hit this crap with a hammer and it doesn't come off. The Pinks crew didn't even scratch it off when they were clamping camera's to the car. My drivers side bar has one scrape on it where the window net bar hits it and that's it, I didn't scratch it once all season climbing in and out of the car whatever that's worth.

Plus applying it with the brush vs spraying, night and day easier. NO overspray to deal with, thread starter knows the pain involved with trying to stop the overspray mess... glad I didn't have to deal with that. If I had gotten overspray on the exterior paint I'd have about lost my mind.

Hell enough of you have seen the car and know how I keep it and am about that kind of stuff.
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Originally Posted by JL ws-6
Plus going on with the brush there's none of the headaches with overspray.
Hey good call. i think i might have to do that also. i going to paint mine in a few days. really don't feel like taping.
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What did you spend on the hole set up: roll bar & installation?
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Old Mar 19, 2009 | 05:32 PM
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Originally Posted by camarorat
What did you spend on the hole set up: roll bar & installation?
with interrior removed 1250
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Hey good call. i think i might have to do that also. i going to paint mine in a few days. really don't feel like taping.
taping off was a pain. if i were to do it again i would probably use that paint that you brush on and dries smooth not sure what its called.
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OK I checked the paint it's actually mae by Ben. moore, it's a urethane epoxy paint for the exterior of boats.

Black, goes on great with a foam brush.


Those that have seen my car know how smooth it goes on, I'd give it a 9 out of 10. If you really wanted it to look perfect, I'd put 2 coats on, then wet sand one with 1000 grit or so then do a final coat. This summer while I'm taking it off, if I get bored enough I still have about 1/2 the can left maybe I'll try that. If, I get that bored. I'll have the car apart anyway, so while it's apart maybe I'll do it, see if I can get it to look like powdercoat
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