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What I did next was fabricate the side intrusions. I done a extra fixing point on the side in the middle of the door jam for two reasons. One was to make exiting the seat slightly easier because if it was a full x it would be quite high to get your legs over. And the other reason was to make cage stronger from side on. Anyway here's a couple of pictures

Yeah shandangles that's correct as far as I'm aware as well but cause its only slight bends they let you get away with it. I've done two cages now both this way that have passed homologation

The first step on the cage was to make all the footing plates. I fully welded the front and rear plates but I only tacked in the hoop plates so I can remove them later to drop cage through the floor. The next step was to tack in the hoop then notch the front lateral bars and tack them in place then tack and fabricate the roof setup

The next big issue was sorting out a pipe bender for the rollcage. I picked up the 44mm and 38mm tube but now I needed a bender. One that wouldn't crush the pipe because then it wouldn't pass homologation. They are so pricey to purchase so I ended up getting in contact with a local cage builder and I took the car to him and he bent my main hoop, front lateral bars and roof bars. He does awesome work and the fitment was amazing This is a few pics of the car, main hoop and the bars I ended up with I cut holes through the body to drop hoop through the floor before trimming it. And so I can drop the cage down later to weld the tops

After stripping it all out I removed the gearbox and drive shaft along with every bit of wiring and loom. Then I pushed it outside and have it a good blow out with a air compressor

Cheers mitch. Yeah they took a lot of work to get them looking that way but it was worth it.

Out came all the sound deading. The carpet will be going back as I don't want it to feel to much like a track car. The next issue was the loom. I hate electrical issues and untidy wiring so it had to be sorted. Because this car was orginally auto. With all the optional extras like electronic suspension. Cruise control etc it had so much wiring. A job I started that ended up taking months to complete. Here's some pics of the loom etc

So off came the doors and out came the interior!

I thought about this next decision for awhile. Mainly because of the hassle of it being still a weekend "street" car. In the end I decided that I'd build a nz motorsport rollcage. The pro's really for me was the fact I'll be building this car to be used for fun track days and I'd like my friends and family to enjoy the car on track as much as possible and safely as possible. The con's being mainly the paperwork to be street use and the Hassle of it becoming difficult to use on the street.

Now the tubs were complete I got a hold off a very large intercooler off a good friends drag fc. These pictures were my idea on how I was orginally thinking of mounting the cooling setup. Although this never happened and I ended up going a different route as you'll see later on

It didn't come with a radio sorry mate! Plans were a tidy street track car. I'll post up updates pretty rapidly over the next week

So after getting both sides tacked in this is how it looked Then they were welded. It ended up being a bit of a nightmare welding them fully. Mainly because of the layered material it keeped blowing out. But we got there in the end Inside view all primed

Now onto fixing what I started with the front. Myself and a good mate of mine made up some tubs from 2 mm panel steel. We decided to go with 2 mm because I wanted the tubs fully welded in for strength and to stiffen the front end of the car up So here's the dummy fit up of the tubs

So the next thing on the hit list was fixing the rubbing in the front end. After only having a set of 8" rims up front I couldn't get full lock because it hit the inside of the tub. Because I'm a engineer I decided to just start cutting and sort the rest later haha That should fix it!

After driving the car around for a month I decided to get the project underway (and because I done a compression test and it wasn't good) I knew the motor was shot prior to purchasing the car because of the really bad cold start. So before it popped I pulled it out Then I stripped the block and sold it cheap. I had plans that didn't include using it. Although I wish I hung onto it as a dummy block I needed all the funds I could get

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Hey guys. After meeting sparkle recently he told me to come have a look at the old school forums and I'd like to share my project build that I have just recently finished. I know it's possibly on the limit of being old school and after reading the post rules I'd like to post it in here as it was sold first in 1986. (Feel free to move it otherwise) to me it's old school and I always loved the squared shape of the fc3s Anyway after selling my 1978 323 I decided that it was time to do a complete build from the ground up. I wanted a car I could drive in the weekends then take it to the track and have some fun from time to time So I purchased a pretty stock 1988 fc3s. (The 2nd 88 fc that I've owned)