This is MY 67 Camaro

[clill]

Originally Posted by GregWeld

He's using Nylocks

You are looking at the wrong pic. Beachcruiser just has nuts with no lock washers.

[Beach Cruiser]

Yes there are Nylocks on the steering column, and the A arms are using a generous amount of lock tight on them. Those fasteners are on my pre race weekend check list, along with about 200 more spots!

[Sonar Chief]

Good day in the garage .... Figure I'd start on the roll bar now that the connectors are welded in solid, got the drivers side pretty much done. Still need to bend the floor plates to match the rocker panel and put the kicker bars onto the connector, but that's easy.

I gave the roll bar a little angle to match the quarter window and to make it easy to weld the top joints with the roof off ... finally be able to weld on the roof after the quarters are on! I even installed the rear window to make sure it didn't hit, we're good.

Take a look ....













That's all, I'll work on the passenger side tomorrow and get the kickers mocked up and then add some heat ....

Thanks for looking .....

[ataves1]

Roll bar looks good! nice work

[Build-It-Break-it]

Hey chief, I see your using wire as an extra person to help hold your cage. I do all my own work myself to and what I did was use a couple of pieces of scrap 2"angle iron and 4 harbor freight clamps. Drilled a few of holes in everything and attached. They work amazing ,fast and only cost about $6 bucks total. They're a time saver . Sorry if the pictures are hard to see but I had to crop them a lot to upload them. There's only a picture of one of the clamps I made, the other is half the size. Hope this makes sense and helps you or others.

P.s. if anyone makes these use nylock nuts so you can adjust the amount of tension you need when bolting the clamps to the angle iron.

[waynieZ]

Chief its coming along, looks good, but I don't think that wire is going to pass tech inspection.

Ahmad good idea.

[Build-It-Break-it]

Thanks Wayne. I think the clamps are more affordable and universal then magnets. Plus they don't mess with the arc like a magnet will when tack welding.

[Greg from Aus]

Originally Posted by Sonar Chief

Good day in the garage .... Figure I'd start on the roll bar now that the connectors are welded in solid, got the drivers side pretty much done. Still need to bend the floor plates to match the rocker panel and put the kicker bars onto the connector, but that's easy.

I gave the roll bar a little angle to match the quarter window and to make it easy to weld the top joints with the roof off ... finally be able to weld on the roof after the quarters are on! I even installed the rear window to make sure it didn't hit, we're good.

Take a look ....













That's all, I'll work on the passenger side tomorrow and get the kickers mocked up and then add some heat ....

Thanks for looking .....

Nice work.

[tubbed69]

Really starting to come together now,top notch fab work all the way

[Sonar Chief]

Originally Posted by ataves1

Roll bar looks good! nice work

Thanks... its time consuming to get it right!

Originally Posted by waynieZ

Chief its coming along, looks good, but I don't think that wire is going to pass tech inspection.

Ahmad good idea.

I thought it was better than duct tape

Originally Posted by Build-It-Break-it

Thanks Wayne. I think the clamps are more affordable and universal then magnets. Plus they don't mess with the arc like a magnet will when tack welding.

So I use the same clamps from HF so I made up something similar .... works good thanks for the tip!!

Originally Posted by Greg from Aus

Nice work.

Thanks ... your car is awesome!

Originally Posted by tubbed69

Really starting to come together now,top notch fab work all the way

Thanks, the fitment is really close and that makes it a whole lot easier to fine tune!

Here is some pixs, still need to fine tune the angle for the main hoop (85 degrees) and bend the plates for the floor.


Made some clamps to hold her in place!

Rear window is in place ... plenty of clearance!

Kickers tuned to fit the connectors!

Better view ... looking cool!


There's tomorrow for the rest (1) fine tune the trunk drops (2) bend all the plates to fit (3) get help to take off the roof so I don't taco the roof (4) start welding!!!!

This is time consuming to get it fit really nice, but it's paying off fer sure!

Thanks for looking ....