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Monday, September 5, 2016

Building the Roll Cage


My son helped build the first pass on creating the main hoop of the cage.  My respect for guys who fabricate race buggy's and other race car cages has gone way up - this is complicated stuff - and DOM tubing is pretty unforgiving.

Wednesday, August 17, 2016

Mounting the Seats


Finally decided to get my seats from PRP. Living in Texas means that I'm living miles from any real population of desert racers.  As such, I've never actually even sat in any off-road seats before, so it was really tough to decide which seats to put into the adventure bug.  It came down to Mastercraft or PRP.  Mastercraft had a six week lead time, PRP had three weeks - my impatience made the decision.

Monday, July 4, 2016

Fitting the Body to the Chassis



The body has to have cut-outs to fit on top of the base of the roll cage...