Mikey 97Z M6

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Here's a few pics of my rollbar I'm installing.

I have 4 of the floor plates welded into the car and I'm just about finished with the trial fitment. I'm trying to find out far away your helmet needs to be from the main hoop to be NHRA legal. Right now I'm at about 3-1/2" from where I want to place the main hoop.
























Mike

XCLR8N

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This looks strangly familiar, yet different. Looks good Mike! Made it a custom rollbar I see

Mikey 97Z M6

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LOL,,,, yeah. I cut off those extra pieces from the rear bars. Not really needed and it would have been two more plates to weld-in for them, plus more fitting headaches. I gave it another coat of rattle can black paint too.

Mike

zlicious94

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Lookin good Mike

Rockin C Racing

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Sorry I couldn't respond to you sooner Mike. Glad we finally got things answered for you.

Spectre86

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damn.... that looks like a huge royal pain in the *** to do....

Iv got a 4 point kirk in my garage for my FRC.. looks like im going to need to pick up a 24 pack for this..

btw, posted a few questions in your swap thread. didnt wanna jack this one.

Mikey 97Z M6

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Yeah, it hasn't been exactly easy, but I've got alot of free time these days so it keeps me occupied lol...

Answered your questions in the other thread also.

Mike

Mikey 97Z M6

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No worries. I have lots of other work to do on the car before the weekend so it's no biggie. You had a championship to win!

Mike

Rockin C Racing

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Yes I did. Thanks.

Mikey 97Z M6

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Well I got the rollbar completely installed last week, but I just got around to uploading the finished pics. I've been making progress in other areas of the car also, including the new true-dual exhaust with an X-pipe that I welded up this last week. That poor welder I bought hasn't had a break since I got it lol.... First the SFC'c, then the rollbar, now the exhaust Haha....


















Mike

XCLR8N

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Looks Great Mike!

Mikey 97Z M6

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Thanks Matt. I'm really happy with the way it all turned out and thanks for selling it to me.

Mike

XCLR8N

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No problem, now if there was more intrest in my car.

fullmetalone

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are those bolts on the side bars by the doors so you can take those bars out for cruising and the like? I've just never seen those with bolts on them before..

Mikey 97Z M6

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Yes, the side bars are called 'swingout door bars', meaning they are removable for street use. They're pretty common on 6 point rollbars.

Mike

DBL_TKE

It's actually more common than non swing out bars.

Mikey 97Z M6

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Since I'm in the process of losing a bunch of weight out of the car I had the dash out and decided to get busy installing the forward bars to make it a 10 point rollcage. My goal with the car is to eventually run mid-9's (not this year, maybe 2011?) But hey,,,,, I'm layed-off and got nothing but time, a garage, and a welder. ;D

Here's some pics of the install so far. Yesterday was spent getting the driver side forward bar to fit better. The original bends were WAY the **** off and it didn't fit the car worth a ****. The angle of the bar following the A-pillar was at least 5 degrees off (it was BAD). So I broke out the pipe bender and went to town fixing the angles. Also didn't have any head room with the way it fit before. I modified the top portion of the forward bar to fit up into the T-Top and then bend back downward to meet the main hoop behind my head. That was a pain in the ***... but I'm happy with the way it came out. Now I need to work on the passenger side today.

Can just barely see the forward part of the cage from the side since it tucks up inside the T-Top. The way it fit before, you could see the entire top portion of the foward bar. It's much better now with the new bends/angles.











Here is the bend I added to meet the main hoop so that the forward bars could tuck up inside the T-Top.


Still retain use of the T-Top access because hell, this is still a street car.



Mike

smokinponcho73

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Thats a lot of work Mike. You look like you are doing a pretty good job and know what you are doing. It will be time for me to do a roll bar soon.

Mikey 97Z M6

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Thanks man. It's very time consuming but that is probably because I'm a bit of a perfectionist. Got hit with a head cold today so I'm down for the count until this passes.

Mike

99blancoSS

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Hey Mikey can you/do you are you setup to weld stainless?