Major(ish) update, plenty more to come over the next couple of months:
Set off at 4.50am down to Essex to pick up the rollcage that I'd bought on Ebay and Sparco seat from 'teej' on here. got to Teejs house at a decent time, collected the seat and set off to Richards to get started in cutting the cage out of the corsa shell.
I expected it to take me about 30mins if that, I was wrong. Took me 4 hours, lol. Which included my angel grinder dying and having to go to BnQ to buy a better one, lol.
The cage:
I used various backdoors to get to the welded cage mountings, lol
All the bits I'd got JUST fitted in the golf;
The other bits you may be able to see were; anti-roll bar from the gsi, and rear strut brace also from the gsi.
Once I got home, the car was left packed and I decided to start my jobs on sunday.
First thing first, get the rear strut brace painted and fitted. I'd been pondering what colour to go for for the cage and bar and finally settled on yellow;
(it is REALLY yellow but the camera won't pick it up)
Next up, the rear anti-roll bar.
It goes here:
You insert it one way;
Hammer it into the other side, and bolt it up
Then I wanted to try and save some weight on the front end, until I finally go for a fibreglass bonnet. So I decided to cut out the under-bonnet bracing out with a grinder.
First incision:
All cut out
All off
Quickly painted to prevent rust
And the removed item
Next up, fitting my new oil temp/pressure gauges. I need the relevant 'bolts' tapping as per odders fitting guide, so for the moment I just got the gauges all installed in the car. I removed the MFD on the top of the dashboard and stuck the pod in there for good line of sight:
next up; fitting the new 300lb front springs that I'd got from Chris Astley, unfortunately though I didn't have a swan neck spanner that was suitable to hold the shock, so I didn't finish that job. here's a picture of the FK springs compared to the juicier 300lb ones!
And thats where my day ended. Fitting the two rear bars has made a noticeably difference to the driveability. The car is noticeably 'planted' to the road and feels alot more stable on high speed corners, it should be even better with the front springs on; that'll be done one night this week I hope.
That tb is for the missus's xe tigra. Still suffering from backlogs up here though so will let you know when it arrives
