Inside of the car stripped and the first roll cage tube cut and fitted, we made large holes in the floor to drop the cage into, this allows access to the top of the joints for 100% welding, then the cage is lifted up into position and large thick plates welded over the holes and the roll cage then welded to them.

The outriggers going to meet the front strut mounts.... regulations... added about 20 hours of work to the cage fitting process.

Matt black sprayed on the hard to reach areas of the body and roll cage, BEFORE welding it into place.... sometimes we do actually think before we do stuff.

Left side outrigger was more difficult than the right side. Clutch cylinder caused headaches, but we removed the pedalbox, the clutch cylinder and the mounting studs, replced the whole assy and used nuts and bolts instead of studs. We will need a braided hose and banjo blts to clear the outrigger when it is all fitted back in place.

When I fitted the steering wheel to move the car, we realised that the "toyota bars" (as required by regulations) was almost touching the steering wheel, but it wasn't an oversight, as we had planned on using the sparco safari wheel from my lancia, just had to wait weeks for the nissan sunny (100) steering wheel boss to arrive, I also think I had to modify the self cancelling pins somewhat, but at least the splines were the same and we could mount the sparco wheel.

Only one side of the door bars and toyota bars were fitted here, april 2006, very much a work in progress, then the race season started and we had no more time for "fun" stuff like working on our own car.

All tubes for the drivers side tacked into position.

Sparco wheel fitted, clears the cage nicely, if you look closely you'll see the steering column is lowered and not bolted up again, we will fit some spacers later.

Some shots once the cage was finished and painted.

Looking through the tailgate... inside is now painted and we have started refitting the heater and other essentials.

Insides of the doors also painted as we had planned not to use the door cards, but as it turns out, the door cards fit perfectly around and under the door bars on the roll cage, so home comforts it will be... with arm rests and somewhere to fit the electric window switches.

We used braided hosing and banjo fittings for the clutch cylinder as the outriggers for the roll cage created a space issue, the hose goes directly to the slave cylinder, bypassing the damper thing.

Figured it might be prudent to post a picture of the outside of the car, before it goes to paint.

A shot of the workshop and a reminder to tear off those ugly fog lights.

Here you can see where the previous owner had cut the gearshifter aperture to fit the 200sx gearbox.. I didn't realise this until after we had painted the inside of the car and removed the taped up gearshifter boot.

Heater is now fitted and some (two nuts) makeshift steering column spacers fitted to lower the steering wheel, we will make proper ones when the seats are fitted and the steering wheel height can be fine tuned. But this works to keep the steering wheel away from the roll cage's "toyota bars".


The heater.... looking all purposeful and waiting for the dash to be fitted......