BroncoII cage

[janderson4010]

building a cage for my BII, i'm posting it on my build thread bt I thought I would also post it here. Using 1.75x.120" DOM, with a few pieces being 1.5", like the seatbelt bar and some of the gussets. This is what I've got so far, I bent up my b pillar with 2 8 deg bends about 17" up from my slider, and then the main bends are 82 deg to make a full 90, then I notched a peice of 1.5 for the seatbelt bar so that it is 2" below my shoulder when I am in the seat.

the next 2 pieces are the down bars, not sure on the exact angle of the 2 bends but they are 5 deg off of each other so that they kick in where they weld to the floor, here are the pics I have, I will post pics as I go.

btw this isn't me but my buddy, he just doesn't know how to use a camera so it looks like he is doing all the work haha,

he was supposed to work on it a bit today(our shop is at his house) so hopefully he takes pics of his progress, let me know what you all think

 

[janderson4010]

dangit I posted the one pic 2x, (does anyone else hate the new photobucket?) here is the one I meant for the last pic

 

[janderson4010]

I got the spreader bar in the back and i'm starting on all the gussets, also spent a night putting multiple bends into the halo bar for the front, i'm actually going to cut into the roof and recess this in so that it lines up with the b pillar and the back down tubes, then the supports are going to go down the A pillar and go inside the fenders to connect to my slider. here is a pic of the halo bar in the bender,

 

[janderson4010]

here is the cage thus far, the plans have changed for the front halo bar, its gonna be cool, but the back part of the cage is pretty much done.

 

[RockRanger]

Looks good.

 

[SmokeEater829]

Awesome work man!

 

[janderson4010]

thanks guys, it has been a lot of work, now I need to go play with it for a few days before i'm ready to start tackling the front of the cage. I go in spurts where I have to remind myself why I work on it lol.