well yeah, is the dash bar you got there straight

The diagram shows they are one peice. the F2 deffo have it in two parts, but they have a brace going to that suspension mount to that attatches to the hoop

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306 rallye reproduction decals (full sets/individual decals) | 306 b-pillar textured vinyl weatherstrips
306 slam panel esso stickers | 306 yellow / orange / pension fund red side door badges
gti6 inlet manifold badges | 306 rear boot badges (p2/p3)
winner of Extraction of toys from prams with outstanding vigour award 2009 [source: gti6 owners club]

ah i see is that just plate then?

how come urs goes over the holes? it it just how the hoop is?

All Rikky's cage was pushed right out and stressed against the shell with either a ram or simply being made to be a press fit to the bodywork before welding - it's all putting pressure outwards against the car chassis to stiffen the structure as much as possible.
'S welded on the door and screen bars too

This dash bar up here is bent, is yours straight then?

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Do they actually have one design for this cage or do they just throw in whatever's nearest on the shelf?


Did you get B-pillar gussets? They didn't include them this time around until the were phoned

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how can it work being straight it has to go through the steering column or atleast over it, in which case it has to push back towards the middle, f*cking odd!

is this an off the shelf cage or an 'off the top of our head' cage when someone orders it?!

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306 rallye reproduction decals (full sets/individual decals) | 306 b-pillar textured vinyl weatherstrips
306 slam panel esso stickers | 306 yellow / orange / pension fund red side door badges
gti6 inlet manifold badges | 306 rear boot badges (p2/p3)
winner of Extraction of toys from prams with outstanding vigour award 2009 [source: gti6 owners club]

and it was my damn 306, of every person in the country with a 306!!! to be wrong

in 15yrs of these cages nobody thought to tell them of all these issues till that day i rung them? oh my f*cking god

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306 rallye reproduction decals (full sets/individual decals) | 306 b-pillar textured vinyl weatherstrips
306 slam panel esso stickers | 306 yellow / orange / pension fund red side door badges
gti6 inlet manifold badges | 306 rear boot badges (p2/p3)
winner of Extraction of toys from prams with outstanding vigour award 2009 [source: gti6 owners club]

i can't think of a word at the moment other than "whoppers"

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306 rallye reproduction decals (full sets/individual decals) | 306 b-pillar textured vinyl weatherstrips
306 slam panel esso stickers | 306 yellow / orange / pension fund red side door badges
gti6 inlet manifold badges | 306 rear boot badges (p2/p3)
winner of Extraction of toys from prams with outstanding vigour award 2009 [source: gti6 owners club]

mine being stitch welded to the shell = the reason it's so damn loud i imagine combined with totally solid mounts throughout. shakes like a shitting dog but jesus christ it feels stiff and chuckable

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306 rallye reproduction decals (full sets/individual decals) | 306 b-pillar textured vinyl weatherstrips
306 slam panel esso stickers | 306 yellow / orange / pension fund red side door badges
gti6 inlet manifold badges | 306 rear boot badges (p2/p3)
winner of Extraction of toys from prams with outstanding vigour award 2009 [source: gti6 owners club]

Well I havent updated this for ages, but I thought I should now.

Still getting bit. And here is some of my recent purchases.

Feeling sorry for Jim my expert fabricator and the grief we are having with the cage, I ordered a bucket seat mounting kit from tweaks to make his life a bit easier.



But as you know you cant just order one thing once you get on the web site, so I also ordered this, which will sit under the bonnet incase my bat goes flat and also its just easier to jump off than climbing behind the seat.



and also some anchor plates for the eyelets for the harnesses



I also put an order in to frosts for some radiator black (see the pic later in the thread)
Some underseal remover, some plasticgauge and some heat reflective stuff so I can use this instead of heat sheilds



But for 60 quid for that its a bit expensive.

I want to get the car rolling as soon as possible so I have sent my trailing arms off to Bridge craft engineering to have 3degs of negative camber machined into them.

I also odered this little lot



That is 25mm torsion bars and a 30mm ARB.

I need to put some earth points into the car so I brought a bag of weld in nuts for this.



So I set about yesterday to sort out stealthing my intercooler, and to be honest I think it looks better in satin black than natural.

Before


after

after 1 coat



after the second coat



I do love the stealth look.

I then did the same to the oil cooler



but forgot the after pic DOH.

And now for the cage!!
Now once they are fitted, there is no arguments they are so much better than a bolt in Jobbie, but OMG what a pain to get it in.

None of the rear stays are right, the A pillar bits are wrong, its mental.

But we will get there, its just gonna take a whole heap of time.