240hoke Posted June 28, 2005 Share Posted June 28, 2005 Hey Guys, I just got done welding in my roll cage, er well its more of a bar I guess. I just thought I would post up some pictures as many people have questions about S&W products. Most people say S&W stuff is pretty crappy, and I would agree. The cage will fit in your car, but if you mount it the way they intend it seriously interfers with the seats and isnt built quite the way I would like. However the main hoop does fit quite nicely and you cant buy the pipe for the price of the kit (I think my total was about 180 bucks for cage and "x" brace). So I think its a great start for those that are willing to do some fabrication. I wanted to have some of room to move the seats so i was having trouble working out a place ot mount the main hoop. In the pictures youll see I mounted the bar up on the ledge behind the seats, but the fender well prohibits the bar from leaning back. What I did was notch out the fender well and allow the bar to set in just a little. This give me the right placment for the bar and allows me enough seat room. Anywa the rest is self explanitory, I used the bar s&W intends to go straight across as a diagonal, and i used the "x" brace material I had extra to do the harness bars. IF you have access to a bender the harness bar could be made like a "u" on the drivers side to allow more room to lean the seat back. I dont ride in the gangster position so i think this will work for me but if your really tall might need to change this part I still need to put in the door bars but that will come tomarrow, I was excited so i figured i would post. I think this setup is really gonna make the rear end of my car nice and solid. *EDIT* On a side note, if i had to do it over I would tack the bar super good and then break the tacks on the body and weld the cage outside the car then place it back in, youd have to be careful though to keep it from warping, so this might not be a good idea. But it is very hard to get to all the areas inside. -Austin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peej410 Posted June 28, 2005 Share Posted June 28, 2005 just so you know, that harness bar might be a little too far forward. did you make sure that you checked to make sure the seat will go back as far as you want it too? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
240hoke Posted June 29, 2005 Author Share Posted June 29, 2005 Yup, everything is dandy. The seat has to be fairley upright the way its suppose to be, plenty of room for me, but thats why i recommended moving the drivers side harness bar back in the shape of a U. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peej410 Posted June 29, 2005 Share Posted June 29, 2005 yeah i remember, when building mine making the straight bar, then throwing a seat in in excitment and sliding it back and thud haha, so i cut it out and made another bar looks good though !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jsquared Posted June 29, 2005 Share Posted June 29, 2005 looks good, Austin. Are you going to make a diagonal bar from the hoop to the shock tower? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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