glad to see your ok but are you aloud to cut and weld the b and c pillers thats the main part of the vehicles strength. you would be better swapping the body
Well im not going to cut or weld within 30cm of any seat belt mounting points, and all the points where i will cut and weld will be where Toyota did the joins.
On a monocoque car then I would be a bit more concerned but with the cruiser having a separate chassis, it should be OK.
You sure you want an internal cage? They take up a fair bit of space and do nothing to stop you needing a new roof if you did the same again, just stop you getting squashed
If you do put a cage in, put some proper padding on the bar work that's anywhere near your head, not pipe lagging
I had some fancy stuff from Safety Devices on mine.
Well what I was thinking John is that if I was to go over again, after welding a new roof on, it might not be as strong second time round.
So I thought by adding a cage it might make me feel a little more comfortable knowing that if it goes again, and my welds all fail im not going to turned into a pancake (as quickly/easily).
I know Roothy has got a cage in milo and it doesnt appear to take up too much room.
Good point about the padding, something I hadnt thought of and probably would have gone down the pipe lagging route.
Glad you made it out alive Ben, how many lives have you got left now?
Thanks Rob.
I was thinking on the way back from laning, how many times in my life have I come reasonably close to getting killed.
-3-4 fell off a climbing frame landed on my head, lots of blood. needed a few stitches.
-4-5 fell off a wall, no stitches this time but bad concussion.
-10-11 carrying a full sheet of ply up a tree whilst building a tree house. fell and got a branch through my leg next to my knee to the bone. 12 stitches and left with a nice big scar.
-11-12 hit by a car whilst riding my bicycle, broke my arm in 3 places.
-16 rode my 50cc scooter through a barbwire fence doing about 40mph, 6ft drop the other side to a road.
-17 clipped a kerb whilst doing 70mph on my DT125cc trailbike. Luckily landed and rolled down a grass verge. The bike flipped and cartwheeled about 6 times.
-17 my mate went through a hedge in an old VW, rolled 3 times and went through 2 hedges.
-18 went through a hedge in my first car doing about 40mph. luckily no big trees or could have been quite nasty.
-19 came up behind a Bentley continental and realised my brakes wernt working. tried to steer into/through the hedge, but that turned out to have a wall at the bottom. hit that and rolled a couple of times.
So with this latest incident that makes 10.
. Even I would not try it when the grass is under water.
