Great, great advice Max, mind if I take some of it myself? I'll do the tail like you mentioned and I'm also thinking of adding a couple more bars on the sides of the cage so I can have my arm restraints a tad longer. This also came up while talking to Lee Kennedy the other day about another cage question.
Matt one more thing that gave me fits is actually getting in and out. When you are in the position shown in your liner ..............
........or in my car ...................
.......... to get into the car you have to, at least in my case, sit on your butt with your knees up to your chin and your back against the upper hoops. Then slide your legs forward into the front of the foot box area. Then you have to slide forward on your butt and flex your legs at the knees so they come up into the top of the cage area. The sliding forward is so you can then get far enough forward to get your head with the large helmet on it down to the point where you can slide backwards under the hoops in the cage over your head.
The key to all of that happening is the ...............
............ cross bar by your steering (the left arrow in the picture). In your pictures you show it high right in front of your hands. You will be looking under yours if you build it like is shown. That would help. In my case I have to look over it and wanted it as low as possible. I spent a ton of time getting that one bar in where I could still get in and out of the car, by getting my knees past it (under it) and having the area in front of it high enough for my knees to go up into when I have to slide forward getting in and out and yet not so high as to block my vision.
Make sure you have a helmet at this point that is current. My old motorcycle helmets were way too small to use for fitment. Then someone gave me a more current one, much larger. Then I recently got my legal 2005 helmet and it is larger yet. I fit, but it is getting tighter all the time. I have a real incentive now not to put on weight or someone else will be driving. Also maybe you aren't as long in the legs as I am, I'm 6-1. The legs are the problem as they only bend so far. As tight as it is I've gotten out of the car suited up and to the phone across the shop in 4 rings, but I still have more stuff that has to go in there.
Remember we aren't criticizing just giving you some things to think about that maybe you have all worked out.
c ya and thanks again Max for the great info (anyone building a streamliner, bike/car or a lakester or even a modified roadster pay attention to those posts),
Sum