A buddy and I will be making custom cages for our rigs...

the tube..


bending tube..


the B pillar..


it came out a little thin so we made it wider by sleeving it..

painting it red and also making rear tube fenders with a comp cut...

Badass start.

Great!
Someone started this before me.
I'm still in the planning/research phase.

My biggest problem right now is how to fit the front vertical bars by the dashboard without hacking up the dash too much or killing all legroom.

What do you plan on doing about that?

And are you doing bars over the back seats into the cargo area as well?

And what size and type pipe (or tube) are you using?

Any info is greatly appreciated.

started rear fenders....

COMPP CUTTTTT



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im gunna clean it up, sledge it, and paint it and cut the random riff raff off tomarrow

ordered corbeau bajas and red 5 point harnesses to match the red cagee

gettinn shitt donnee

the a pillar?

bendtech dude, bendtech

nice start, but I'm partial to exo cages.

i love my roofrack too much to exo it

Yes, the A-pillar where there is a vent, the dash sticks out a ton and there is little leg room to begin with.
Are you just hacking up the dash and recessing the pipe?
Or are you losing the doors in order to clear the bars?

And what pipe (or tube) size are you using?

That's great that you're using software but it didn't answer my questions. :rolleyes:
AutoCAD.

DOM or HREW (does not look like it)?
1.75" or 2.00"?
How thick is the wall .120?

Hahahahaha

Ski goggles......

dom 1.75 .120 wall

they work better than anything out there

and there just badass
:p

Awesome. Never really thought about using them before.

I laughed at that too... but because I thought... HA , i'm not the only one.

haha we gotta get a patent on that or something dude

This is a gallery of the build up of the XterraRacer. http://www.teamxterraracing.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=7

Feel free to PM Xterraracer with any questions on how he put it all together.

For racing, this works very well!

Looking good so far. Can't wait to see it completed..

Tried to post this the other day but Pirate was down.

Bending tube 101 - The easy way
http://www.pirate4x4.com/tech/bendin_tube/index.html

Your neighbors must love you..

dilling and mounting the sleeved b pillar



welding action


haha me fucking around.. its a bitch holding that thing up



Start of C pillar


cheers fellas

yeah what was up with that??

it was a picture of a porsche or something...wierd

anyway deffiently a cool read

thanks bro

The owner forgot to renew the domain name.

I take it you are not putting your interior back in?

Second, are you reenforcing the floorplate from underneath or just welding it to the floor?

Thanks,
S.

nope, no interior

yes there is another plate on the bottom were bolting the top plate to through the floor

Cool. Looks good.

S.

got a good amount done today...workin all day tomarrow and monday..pics to come soon...

worked more on the cages today

Bending up A pillar






done with pillars....now with triangulation and dash pillars

from the day before that...miserable fucking day with all the snow..still worked from dawn to dusk though..


stupidfucking snow

got a good amount done that day..

the start of the tube bumper

You lucky son's of bitches. Both your rigs are lookin' damn good, super props to fyneart though.

SOOOO what are you doing with your Shrock ??

1 of 2 dash pillars..I bent the bottom one up just need to notch it..Also started my speaker bar thats gunna mount right behind the b pillar. puttin gin some Alpine type-R's

Ive run out of tube..have to get about 20 more feet. Also buying some 1/4'' to make a winch mount on the bumper.

Yehhhhhh

Ooh - what are the details on those harness seats? Do they require a tie-in to the bar you're putting over the seats or are they self-contained?

they are gunna be tied into a seat bar im gunna bend for behind the seats

Any Plans for the old bumper??

Already been asked....

Pending deal on my local club.

ahah fucking vulturesss

damn pat that thing is moving quick. looking good!!!

Very nice. I was at a shop last night where they're doing one for an Exploder prerunner. It's complete with floor bracing for the seat mounts, etc., but the price tag will end up around $3500.

Coincidentally, my SAS Frontier is in the same shop getting an exo cage right now

bumpers pretty close to being done.

brain hurts from all the tube bender angles.

got the seat bar done, post that shit up later..

yeahh

mas photos

yeh at the end my shit cost about 400$ cause im doing all the work myself with a buddy

Your build so far has been great, fantastic even. Buy why did you do this:


It seems like it's a lazy shortcut to me, but I could be way of base here. Why wouldn't you just bend the bastard back to meet the sliders?

well it has to be a little far out so i have some space to open my door, but from looking at the pictures...youe absolutley right, it seems like it does come out a little too far. next weekend ill have to go out and do some measurements to see if we can pull it off. Keep looking for updates on that..

Great work!

Teaser shot:

pretty fuckin cool dude. nice lines. what size mt/r's are those?

went out and measured to see if i could tuck the fenders in more and no dice, it needs every inch of that room for the door to open.
Oh well, ill just gusset the shit out of it...itll probably make it flow better too.

fillin the gaps up with aluminum this weekend, finifshing my seat bar and maybe mounting the harnesses. Maybe moving on to the sound bar but who knows...So much to do

So you still have your truck... I ran with you guys up to the red rock with Z chick. Good to see the truck is still around.

Here is some internal cage work that was done to the Pathy last summer/fall. The same stuff only different...

got the seat bar done



Took Bumper off to work on it/weld it
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finished sound bar, looks and sounds fawking fantastic..

filling bumper with aluminum, adding gussets, triangulating, and continuing with my dash pillars..

NEEED TO BE DONE BY MARCH 7TH AGHHHH

cheers

Looking really good.

My exo should be done today. Pics forthcoming soon. Now...off to buy a shitload of flat black rustoleum.

SHIT IS DONE.....what a long long process..just need to do a couple more last minute things like paint a couple areas and finish some plating and add a few more gussets..

here you go:

looks awesome man, really really nice work! well done

Looks awesome.
Can you post some pix of the A-pillar bars by the dash and floor?
Thanks.

Poison Spyder !!! Looks good... you gonna make it up to ECXC ?

Nicely done!

Congrats. That IS a lot of work.

nice. Every kids dream come true, driving down the road while playing on a monkey gym.

ill hopefully be there on a 14 bolt/dana 60 combo if i can get it done in time

Loooks great! How much extra weight do you figure all that extra steel adds?

i have nooo idea.

Could you post pictures of what you did with the cage around the driver and passenger seats? I'm trying to figure out how I want to do mine.

Nevermind...

I don't know of another person who has done an internal cage like his.