Ok! Ive been a busy boy the last couple of weeks and figured I finally got enough done to start a build thread!
OK some people will have seen the cage etc before on my cage thread but i wanna keep that seperate as there was a lot of questions bout materials etc that i dont want to take over here!
Ok first things first here she is just after I bought it last year, paid £250 for it thats like $400 I guess, without an engine, just a rolling shell with ineterior, had new brembo discs and EBC Green stuff pads on the back. Had NO wheels so i stuck my old Mitsi Colt stock wheels on for getting it around!
Next few days I stripped it out big style
mmmmmmmmmm messy lol
It was stripped out for a while just lying around for quite a while whilst I saved some cash up for the fabricating to begin!
First thing I did was pull out that sunroof, they carry a LOAD of weight, ct some 1mm metal sheet out after, pop rivetted it on with sealant ane primed it, NEXT up - rollcage!
So I bought the front half of the Rollcage from Custom Cages its all weld in by the way I made all the rest of it myself at the workshop. Got stuck in straight away. Strength was the order of the day so i figured out how i was going to go about the extra mounting points of the cage. Id had a good looks at a few EG6's rallying out in Ireland before so i knew roughly where the front stays would break through the firewall to the front suspension housing. With the dash out I welded the front half in the car, I then had to make some holes in the firewall using a drill and holesaw to allow the cage to go thru.
I made the rest of the cage by lots of measuring of angles and lengths and then using a pillar drill and holesaw to drill through the tubing whilst it was held by a big bed vice, this job is annoying, holesaws are so easy to break drilling tubes but i only went through one on the whole cage! Typical as id bought 3
lol Everyplace the cage goes through or mounts onto a part of the car i welded plates to aswell for extra strength, I was gonna seem weld the front end too but think the EG shells are beefy enough anyways. Anywho PICS!
More pics up tomorrow guys cheers!
Ok first things first here she is just after I bought it last year, paid £250 for it thats like $400 I guess, without an engine, just a rolling shell with ineterior, had new brembo discs and EBC Green stuff pads on the back. Had NO wheels so i stuck my old Mitsi Colt stock wheels on for getting it around!

Next few days I stripped it out big style

mmmmmmmmmm messy lol

It was stripped out for a while just lying around for quite a while whilst I saved some cash up for the fabricating to begin!
First thing I did was pull out that sunroof, they carry a LOAD of weight, ct some 1mm metal sheet out after, pop rivetted it on with sealant ane primed it, NEXT up - rollcage!
So I bought the front half of the Rollcage from Custom Cages its all weld in by the way I made all the rest of it myself at the workshop. Got stuck in straight away. Strength was the order of the day so i figured out how i was going to go about the extra mounting points of the cage. Id had a good looks at a few EG6's rallying out in Ireland before so i knew roughly where the front stays would break through the firewall to the front suspension housing. With the dash out I welded the front half in the car, I then had to make some holes in the firewall using a drill and holesaw to allow the cage to go thru.
I made the rest of the cage by lots of measuring of angles and lengths and then using a pillar drill and holesaw to drill through the tubing whilst it was held by a big bed vice, this job is annoying, holesaws are so easy to break drilling tubes but i only went through one on the whole cage! Typical as id bought 3


More pics up tomorrow guys cheers!