WE have had a good week! Andy's buggy now resides over in his car which has had an Aggie conversion it now again hold 2 cars its amazing what one can get rid of when one is motivated. Dave has rejoined our efforts, he and I noodled out a dry sump tank yesterday that he will build at his house, we started on the fire bottle placement but had a small clearance issue because the car owner forgot about such small things as fire bottle bracket thickness
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Joey had a good day welding while John made some lower tubes.
Then John and I made a steel run to get the 12 guage for the fire wall and 4 sticks of tubing for a roll cage for his car.
We then built the rear hoop and two side hoops for his car. He had an intresting pattern. He built the pattern out of 1/2" electrical conduit. His technique was to build a bend that fit the car as tight as he wished, with a little extra length on the legs. after he had a bend for each corner he then cut and joined the the legs for the perfect outside profile then we duplicated the bend angles and leg lenghts to the exact profile-----REMEMBER to compensate for the incrased width. John bent his inside the outer wall of the car by 1" because he used 1/2 and we bent up 1 3/4 ew. We went to great lengths to put the ew "stripe" exactly centered under the "set screw" that holds the tubing in the die---made it much easier to keep all the bend inthe same plane and it lay flat on the ground when we were through. YEAH