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.
(The departed.)
(Rear landing, down tube, etc.)
(Can anyone say weight savings!)
(More weight savings!)
(Its starting to look like a roll cage!)
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