To add more to this thread, the pics below are the start of a 4 seat rock buggy my brother and I are building together. We have the frame rails and main cage pretty much done, now just need to do the rear and front portions of the chassis before final welding. After everything I've said in previous posts, that were more directed to my K5, which is a trail rig that never really gets over 15 mph, haha, this build is very different.
The drivetrain will be a turbo'd 8.1, TH400, Titan205, front and rear steering rockweels, and ~50" tires. Our plan is to compete in events like Havoc and Backdoor Challenge at KOH eventually once its ready to go. And for sure this one will see many, many rollovers and some higher speeds. So for this build, we didn't want to cut corners or use less strong materials like both of us did on our trial wheelers that never see high speed stuff. This is built out of 1.75" DOM throughout, also has a double B pillar, with as much triangulation as we possibly could think of, and so far have done everything we can to have no dead nodes, and braced as much as possible.
My point with all of this is sometimes you have to look at the intended purpose of your build, and also your budget, and do the very best you can to build something that will be safe for your intended use of the vehicle.
