Roll cage build

[MNorby]

Did you guy keep your sun visors after caging your interior? Am in process of building my cage and my upper windshield bar will pretty much go right thru the visors.

here are some pics of the cage build

 

[CDA 455]

Did you guy keep your sun visors after caging your interior? Am in process of building my cage and my upper windshield bar will pretty much go right thru the visors.

Pics, pics, where are the pics ??!!!

 

[MNorby]

not much to see yet. Got the B pillar bent and one of the A pillars bent then it got dark

 

[Greg72]

Did you guy keep your sun visors after caging your interior? Am in process of building my cage and my upper windshield bar will pretty much go right thru the visors.

Just keep the crossbar a little further back....

This is a cage I built for an '86, but the concept is the same.

 

[MNorby]

with the full removable top I want it as far forward as I can. Wonder if I can mount some visors on the cage tube

 

[ryoken]

with the full removable top I want it as far forward as I can. Wonder if I can mount some visors on the cage tube

that woulda been my suggestion initially.... heck, you could drill a hole in the tube and round over the mounting pates easy enough I would think...

 

[70jimmy]

I was just thinking about this the other day. I did not put my visors back on when I did the cage but was thinking recently about mounting to the cage. They do come in handy.

 

[MNorby]

here is why a straight bar looks goofy. Am gonne bend something to follow windshield frame better

 

[pauly383]

that woulda been my suggestion initially.... heck, you could drill a hole in the tube and round over the mounting pates easy enough I would think...

He could also put a little gusset in the corner and mount them in the gusset , preserving the tube

 

[ryoken]

you so smart...

One day I'll get to build a cage....

 

[MNorby]

bent a new header bar, follows alot better. Just gotta go to shop and do some finish grinding on the notches and weld her in.

 

[Bent77]

That's about all the better you can get one of those to fit. If you get them too close, when you flex it, it will whack stuff like the light nob and the glove box.

Flaps are out of the question, they are either stuck down, or stuck up!

 

[ecameron87]

That's about all the better you can get one of those to fit. If you get them too close, when you flex it, it will whack stuff like the light nob and the glove box.

Flaps are out of the question, they are either stuck down, or stuck up!

Yeah, I got my cage too close to the windsheild and it hits at the sunvisor/hardtop mount. I stuck a 1/4" peice of rubber there and now it isn't as annoying.

I am intersted to see how one would mount sunvisors to the roll cage.

 

[MNorby]

I might try to mount the flap to the cage but don't want them hanging too low where they are right in your face. Also I will prob have to take a small chunk out of glove box so it can open again

 

[ecameron87]

I might try to mount the flap to the cage but don't want them hanging too low where they are right in your face. Also I will prob have to take a small chunk out of glove box so it can open again

I had to trim the glove box door and the instrument cluster as well.

Another thought I had for the visors is a clip on deal. Kind of like how a "D" cell maglight clips to its holder. Clip it up there when I need it, then move it to another part of the cage when I don't need it. I find it most annoying heading north at about 5pm in the summer and the sun is beating down at an angle onto my face. I can roll up my tinted window, but I still have a 6" gap between the window and the bikini top.

 

[MNorby]

got some more work done today

 

[MNorby]

got the rear mostly done. Gotta decide how to do the roof next. CB bars would fit best but not the optimum setup of a big X. This fits nice with the top on and kicks back for rear seat head room without looking really boxy

 

[Burt4x4]

Cool Looks Awesome DOOD!

 

[MNorby]

here is what it looks like and a couple concept on how to do the roof area without loosing headroom

 

[Greg72]

HAHAHAHAHA....

Love the Pirate salute in the 3rd pic!