do you need a rollcage? ofcourse you do!

[sorrento205]

My 205 has just spent the weekend at Roelands Race Rally; see http://www.roelands.co.uk/ having a safety devices challenge spec rollcage fitted. We even succesfully refitted 80% of the stuff we removed to get it in

To say im happy is an understatement. I'll get some pics up tomorrow.

And just to blatantly plug him once more, if you need any sort of welding, race rally preparation etc etc then Drew is your man. His new unit is only 10 minutes off of juntion 26 very easy to find.

[sorrento205]

yummy

[Freewheeler]

Bolted or welded Ben?

[sorrento205]

10 point bolt in

[gareth_t]

after seeing the aftermath of simon norris evo (people in the tuning world will know him for his green 2door evo)i would say its a good move



gotta be a high jump record at combe LOL

cage looks like it fits well!
ive driven a few caged cars on the road, but some can annoy as the front tubes gets in the way of the wing mirrors! how do you find it?

[S2]

Nice Ben, I can feel a ring trip coming on
What's that sort of cris-crossing on the cross braces all about.

[DAVE-W]

Can you fix the harnesses to the horizontal braces on the cage behind the seats?

Dave

[egomeister]

WTF happened to the Evo? Did it and the pug clash on the straight?

[530dTPhil]

egomeister said:

WTF happened to the Evo? Did it and the pug clash on the straight?

http://www.bhpcars.co.uk/mlr/Combe-crash.wmv

[David Godfrey]

Looks good Ben

[sorrento205]

gareth_t said:

cage looks like it fits well!
ive driven a few caged cars on the road, but some can annoy as the front tubes gets in the way of the wing mirrors! how do you find it?

It fits pretty well yeah, we had to cut some of the dash and the headlining and some of the trim panels had to be removed but pretty much everything else went back that we removed for access. Because the front legs do go through the dash they dont affect my mirrors.

S2 said:

Nice Ben, I can feel a ring trip coming on
What's that sort of cris-crossing on the cross braces all about.

the X is just extra triangulation, the horizontal bars are for harnesses to wrap around.

I'll send an email out this week about our little road trip

DAVE-W said:

Can you fix the harnesses to the horizontal braces on the cage behind the seats?

Dave

Yep i will be doing that eventually when i can be bothered to climb in and sort them out. Nothing wrong with the eye bolts holding them in at the mo anyway. Though i do fancy changing to some more subtle black harnesses soon anyway.

[Mikey G]

Really glad you are happy with it Ben, glad it didnt cause us too many headaches in the end! Trouble is you have now relit Drews passion for a Peugeot rallycar again

[Dominitry]

It's made me want one now ya git lol

[Firefoot]

looks good Ben

just as an aside, here is a link to the site of the chap who took piccys of the sequence of photo's from Simon Norris's flying session
http://www.turnpikeracing.co.uk/combe-2007_10_06/C...

[S2]

sorrento205 said:

the X is just extra triangulation,

Yeh I gathered that but it looks like there is some sort of spiral wrapping
on the X braces on my image, praps it's just my screen - I'll have a good nose next time we catch up.

[sorrento205]

i think its just the image not taken kindly to being resized.

shall i fit my passenger seat in preparation?

[David Godfrey]

so, what's next on the list?

[S2]

sorrento205 said:

shall i fit my passenger seat in preparation?

Oh yehhh you owe me a ride if I remember correctly

Edited by S2 on Thursday 11th October 00:00

[sorrento205]

David Godfrey said:

so, what's next on the list?

got a list of things i need to sort out over the new year period, hopefully do a couple trackdays next year and obviously a few roadtrips. modification wise, probably just go for some hotter cams and a remap

S2 said:

sorrento205 said:

shall i fit my passenger seat in preparation?

Oh yehhh you owe me a ride if I remember correctly

indeed i do. I'll have to dig the shoe horn out to get you in Not sure about getting you out again though

[S2]

sorrento205 said:

Not sure about getting you out again though

That's easy, just park outside a cake shop - I'll get out somehow