Cage is in...

MadStang · Oct 7, 2011

g36 monkey said:
well I'll take it off your hands if thats the case ;p

lol, Im turning the turd into a masterpiece so I'm good =P

97stanger · Oct 7, 2011

looks great man. I have the same cage sitting in my garage, I'll be starting install in a week or two. Looks to me like the trickiest part is going to be cutting the quarter panel inners. I dont want it to look like crap, so we'll see. How do you plan on doing yours?

MadStang · Oct 7, 2011

97stanger said:
looks great man. I have the same cage sitting in my garage, I'll be starting install in a week or two. Looks to me like the trickiest part is going to be cutting the quarter panel inners. I dont want it to look like crap, so we'll see. How do you plan on doing yours?

thanks. make sure to put your panels in with the cage. my stock panels are useless since I welded the cage in without the panel in place so now it's impossible to slide the panel in. I'm going to have to make my own aluminum sheets to cover the wheel wells.

97stanger · Oct 7, 2011

got ya, thanks for the heads up. Yeah, my gameplan was to strip interior, mock up cage w/ pvc so i know where to cut my interior quarter panel. take everything out and get cage welded up and powdercoated. reinstall all back together. I hope it works out this way but it seems like it may be a little bit of a project. Either way, yours turned out great

MadStang · Oct 7, 2011

97stanger said:
got ya, thanks for the heads up. Yeah, my gameplan was to strip interior, mock up cage w/ pvc so i know where to cut my interior quarter panel. take everything out and get cage welded up and powdercoated. reinstall all back together. I hope it works out this way but it seems like it may be a little bit of a project. Either way, yours turned out great

Yeah it's a bit of a project. Especially trying to manuever it into the car, highly recommend having mroe than one person doing it. I had a helluva time myself.

97stanger · Oct 7, 2011

for doing it yourself it looks awesome man, good work

Musturd · Oct 7, 2011

It's defiantly a little time consuming but looks sweet when done .

97stanger · Oct 7, 2011

does anybody have any pics of their roll bar powder coated the same color of their car? I'm thinking about going this route, but dont want it to be a sea of red...black seems like the safe bet

MadStang · Oct 7, 2011

mines powder coated the same color... but it's a dark color so it doesnt really stick out.

vermilion · Oct 8, 2011

im going to use the vht chassis paint. i have a 4 pt also but the shop lead me into a 6pt. im stripping the rear interior panels and going with a sheetmetal rear firewall.

97stanger · Oct 8, 2011

^ I considered going that route too

MadStang · Oct 15, 2011

Just a lil' bump over hrrr. I decided to go about this my own way instead of MM's. Got the panels in, but as you can see there's a huge gap! Gonna fill 'er up with bondo and paint it and call it good lol.

castine917 · Oct 15, 2011

the recommended cut is along the slit below armrest then coming up towards bar. that makes cut less visible. i never even tried putting mine back in. just been running without panels back there.

MadStang · Oct 15, 2011

castine917 said:
the recommended cut is along the slit below armrest then coming up towards bar. that makes cut less visible. i never even tried putting mine back in. just been running without panels back there.

I know it's less visible there, but, the fitment into the car was so tight that it would have been impossible for me to get that to work. So I had to improvise. I'm going to bondo it and spray it to match, chances are no one will notice and I dont really care as it looks better than not having anything there.