{"id":240,"date":"2017-09-12T11:10:52","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T11:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fastdruid.co.uk\/gt40\/?p=240"},"modified":"2017-09-12T11:10:53","modified_gmt":"2017-09-12T11:10:53","slug":"roll-cage-delete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fastdruid.co.uk\/gt40\/2017\/09\/12\/roll-cage-delete\/","title":{"rendered":"Roll cage delete"},"content":{"rendered":"

My kit came with a roll cage. After a lot of thought however I decided to remove it.<\/p>\n

A roll cage is a good thing in a GT40 as the A pillars are almost non-existent. I’ve heard tales of GT40-inexperienced passengers cracking the screen by using the A pillar to grab on to.<\/p>\n

There is a big but here.\u00a0Only<\/strong>\u00a0if you are religious about wearing a helmet. Even a minor bump without one could result in “life changing” head injuries. There is next to no clearance in the GT40 and I personally felt the risk of hitting the roll cage in a minor bump was higher than the roll cage saving you (on the road).<\/p>\n

There was only one issue however. I’m likely to want a cage in at some point if (when) I take it on track which is some what of an issue as even with the roll cage “removed” the\u00a0stubs on the roll-over bar remain and are pretty much just as bad.<\/p>\n

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Plus it’s actually impossible to fit the roll cage without removing the spider and (almost certainly) impossible to remove the spider without breaking the windscreen.<\/p>\n

A lot of thought later and I had a solution. First I cut off the stubs.<\/p>\n

Then\u00a0I took two identical strips, drilled 8 holes through both and welded in weld nuts to the back.<\/p>\n

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This was then welded onto the roll-over bar part of the roll cage to give this<\/p>\n

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The rear bulkhead was then trimmed round it. Now it protrudes but\u00a0only very slightly.<\/p>\n

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With the window cut out it looks like this<\/p>\n

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I’ll put a bit of a cover over it however to blend it in more.<\/p>\n

This will let me bolt in a cage if I want (I’ll have to be two part still)\u00a0without<\/em>\u00a0removing the spider and without leaving the dangerous stubs.<\/p>\n

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My kit came with a roll cage. After a lot of thought however I decided to remove it. A roll cage is a good thing in a GT40 as the A pillars are almost non-existent. I’ve heard tales of GT40-inexperienced passengers cracking the screen by using the A pillar to grab on to. There is … Continue reading Roll cage delete<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,3,9,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fastdruid.co.uk\/gt40\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fastdruid.co.uk\/gt40\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fastdruid.co.uk\/gt40\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fastdruid.co.uk\/gt40\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fastdruid.co.uk\/gt40\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fastdruid.co.uk\/gt40\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241,"href":"http:\/\/fastdruid.co.uk\/gt40\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions\/241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fastdruid.co.uk\/gt40\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fastdruid.co.uk\/gt40\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fastdruid.co.uk\/gt40\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}