New Roll Cage & Headliner

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D Chapman

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Looks really damn good. Too bad you fucked everything up with the headliner.
 
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DiscoDino

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Good work...Very clean, and well thought out...I'd add some triangulation...but that's probably just me...
 
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Dallas

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Amazing fabrication :applause: skills Brian, I can only imagine the amount of time that went into disassembly and then the hours of fabrication to get such a nice tight fit. Its a show worthy effort.

Now for the negative, you now have to wear a helmet when off roading so you don't bonk your head on the tubes.:rofl: Just kidding I can see the tubes are all out of the way .
 
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specops1526

specops1526

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Cage looks awesome. Very Camel Trophy-esque. I think I would have foregone the center windshield tube and the tubes behind both rows of seats but other than that, very slick. Nice work.
 
michaels

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specops1526 said:
Cage looks awesome. Very Camel Trophy-esque. I think I would have foregone the center windshield tube and the tubes behind both rows of seats but other than that, very slick. Nice work.
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the cage is pretty useless without those.

how about pics of the rest of the truck too?
 
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pamo61

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We have some gussets and cross bars in the roof. Any additional triangulation would mean that all of the roof bars would have had to be exposed because of the shape of the roof and the sunroofs. Also I didn't want x'd out door areas since you can barely get into these trucks anyway. Plus it isn't a trophy truck. The bars behind the seats add a ton of strength, plus they give you a place to mount belts to, or hold on to. "Please do not pull on the bar, it will come down on its own"

As far as the windshield bar, I debated about that a bit, but it adds so much strength to the truck in an area where these trucks really need it. Plus it greatly closes up the area where big rocks can come through to get you. Plus you kind of don't notice it after a few minutes of being in the truck.

I posted some pics of the rest of the truck for michaels.

Thanks again for the kind words.
 
Blue

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pamo61 said:
So, after many months of thinking about doing this, and being somewhat discouraged about what I have seen out there, I decided to take the plunge. I am posting this stuff in case there is anyone else out there that wants to tackle this, or if I can answer any questions for anyone crazy enough to go down this road.

A huge THANK YOU goes out to my buddy Brian Smith, Fabricator Extraordinaire, who if he never sees another Rover in his whole life, it will be too soon. I think he might listen to me a little closer next time when I tell him how cramped something is. This started as a trade because he owed me a small favor, now I owe him a huge one.

The whole cage is 1 3/4 .120 wall 4130 chromoly. We used almost 90 feet total. The cage is fully tig welded around all of the joints, and wherever possible, stitched to the body itself, so it won't rattle.

We really wanted to make sure that anything we did didn't impede the already ridiculously tight openings in the truck, or make it any less civilized. After pulling the whole truck apart, Brian was able to fit most of the cage behind the headliner, including the gussets.

Since the headliner was falling down when we started, it seemed like a good time to fix that too. Special Thanks to Eric Thorsen from the Upholstery Shop for fixing up the headliner, which was also way more work than it should have been. Not to mention the scavenger hunt to find the perfect material, and enough of it.

Start to finish was 3 ? weeks total.

Anyway, here is a link to the pics with a couple of notes. Thanks.

http://fusionmoto.blogspot.com/2009/11/new-roll-cage-headliner-for-super-rover.html
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The fabrication work certainly looks to be very well done and the headliner material is simply a matter of personal taste....but I'm left wondering why you did all this in the first place? Is it just to give extra security in the event of a rollover?
 
Mongo

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I'm with Blue on this, looks well built, needs more triangulation but it's not a race truck so it should be ok. The headliner...beauty is in the eye of the beholder. But I'm also curious as to why? Is it a trail rig?
 
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2KD2

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QuickSilver said:
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+1 more.....
With some minor adjustments.

As for the why personally - trail work yes, and I've seen three spectacular rolls on Interstate 95 between DC and Richmond. If you can afford it, it probably has more meaningfull ROI than any insurance policy...
 
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