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So we've been slacking pretty seriously on the blog-post front as of late, I'm not gonna lie to you, the last post was just photos that had been sitting on someones camera phone for a while.... But progress has not ceased!  As of tonight, the cage is at 97%, it is only awaiting 1 taco gusset and welding to the feet plates before the car is ready for the dash to get put back in and some finishing touches.

Rear Stays with an X between them were cut, mocked up, then welded.

 

 Next up was a pair of lower rear stays.  Not required in the rules, we expect them to help out with chassis rigidity.

 

Then  it was time to put the final bars in the main-hoop, for those of you who aren't keeping track at home, there is 6 (count 'em!) bars meeting at the 2 top corners on the main hoop.  Strangely the notches don't come out looking all that out to lunch.  Here it is:

Now you can see how the notch fits together with 5 other bars, looks pretty busy eh?

Harness bars too!

Incase you were wondering, yes it was awkward to weld.

Lastly, we would like to welcome grindobot to the So Much Win  team!

The GTR, still.

Work continues on Levi's uber sexy r32 GTR, taken care of a few major pieces of the cage puzzle, I'd say were on the home stretch as far as the roll cage is concerned.  There has been a few delays, now that we have wrapped up some other things getting in the way of progress we can go full bore again and get this car out on the track ASAP.

The cage got lowered down and all the roof bars got welded, as well as taco-gussets for the centre of the roof X.

 Door bars are in-place, taco'd and welded.

And we've completely replaced the factory dash bar with the dash bar for the cage.  I'm pretty proud of how this turned out, I think its clever, it only needs a couple tabs made to mount the console and the fuse box. 

We've also acquired a 1995 Dodge Neon Sport Coupe for a whopping $200.  You might ask, "What does one do with a $200 Neon?" The answer of course is make it a track car!  The plan is to make this car as bad-ass/fast as possible for the least amount of money.  We're pulling out all the stops, but leaving our wallets firmly placed in our back pockets.  In our oh-so-rare free time we have been scouring local sales, keeping an eye out for racing cast-offs, and watching ebay like a hawk.  I'll get up some "teaser" photos in a while, because you want to see our hooptie race car...