The roll cage build has begun. The main cage is now tacked in place as are the rear down bars. You know its much like building a shed. Except the shed is made from steel tubing, welded, and inside of a car. Oh yeah, and your life may depend on on it not collapsing. The mentioning of possible death leads me into my latest tool death toll. In the last week I have killed two 3/8 in plug in drills. I seized the bearings on a 40 year old black and decker drilling a series of 8 holes through 1/4" steel for a set of wheel casters (very cool, my car is now sideways in the garage). The other drill (a 35 year old craftsman) seems to have sheared a large number of teeth off one of its gears. It mets its demise while trying to drill through the rear deck with a 1.5" hole saw. It turns out once the hole is started, its just as easy to use a set of aviation snips.
On other fronts, the air conditioning has been removed from the car. A friend evacuated the nasty stuff from the system and I removed all of the parts once that was done. In all it was about an hour worth of work. Not to bad, I am guessing all parts combined it probably saves 30 lbs of weight.
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(The departed.)
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(Rear landing, down tube, etc.)
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(Can anyone say weight savings!)
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(More weight savings!)
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(Its starting to look like a roll cage!)
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