Call Me Crazy
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Hello again everyone,
I figured it was time to post and update with some pictures of what I have been up to over the last few months:
Thanks for looking! cool.gif
I figured it was time to post and update with some pictures of what I have been up to over the last few months:
Thanks for looking! cool.gif
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Those wheels are tits, end of story.
Alex, that is not a cage LOL, maybe it could be for a go-cart.
I think just a center bar,lower bar, and support beams.
td, take some pics of your bars, I'd like to see your set-up, I've been working on something similar. I'll also get back to your pm soon.
Alex, that is not a cage LOL, maybe it could be for a go-cart.
I think just a center bar,lower bar, and support beams.
td, take some pics of your bars, I'd like to see your set-up, I've been working on something similar. I'll also get back to your pm soon.
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LOL. Thanks everyone!
No cage, just a harness bar from a 94 civic that I modified to fit in the tib! Everyone thinks it is a cage at first glance, haha.
I had to modify the seat bracket that I got from corbeau, they had my head 1" from the ceiling!
To get the bar to fit, all I really had to do was heat up and bend in the outer mounts slightly, I measured my civic's dimensions (in the pics - daily) and it was damn close to the tib's, so I bought it and made it work. I was even able to keep the slider mount for the passenger seat belt! The slider bolts to welded in threads on the frame, but in-between the top and bottom holes it uses is one hole on each side with the perfect threads that is not used! Look at the 2nd pic and you will see. I also lengthened the harness routing bar on the drivers side to match up with the spacing of the seat, notice the passenger side's width is about 3" shorter. As for the bars, I have SR front and rear strut bars, the center bar (which I modified to increase it's rigidity (look closely), and the harness bar-which by far has to be the best chassis brace of them all, it doesn't move at ALL.
As for the wheels/tires: rota grid 16x8 +10mm offset w/225/45/16 kdw2's (I had to use em somehow, and on a 7" rim they rolled too much so...). Had to raise the car about 1.25" compared to the gram light setup (which I still have - discontinued wheels, couldn't sell em), and I got an eastwood fender roller to fix that problem, I actually put a slight flare on them. And the camber is set to about 4 degrees negative in the rear, 4.5 in the front.
Hey thanks for putting up the pics in the forum!
No cage, just a harness bar from a 94 civic that I modified to fit in the tib! Everyone thinks it is a cage at first glance, haha.
I had to modify the seat bracket that I got from corbeau, they had my head 1" from the ceiling!
To get the bar to fit, all I really had to do was heat up and bend in the outer mounts slightly, I measured my civic's dimensions (in the pics - daily) and it was damn close to the tib's, so I bought it and made it work. I was even able to keep the slider mount for the passenger seat belt! The slider bolts to welded in threads on the frame, but in-between the top and bottom holes it uses is one hole on each side with the perfect threads that is not used! Look at the 2nd pic and you will see. I also lengthened the harness routing bar on the drivers side to match up with the spacing of the seat, notice the passenger side's width is about 3" shorter. As for the bars, I have SR front and rear strut bars, the center bar (which I modified to increase it's rigidity (look closely), and the harness bar-which by far has to be the best chassis brace of them all, it doesn't move at ALL.
As for the wheels/tires: rota grid 16x8 +10mm offset w/225/45/16 kdw2's (I had to use em somehow, and on a 7" rim they rolled too much so...). Had to raise the car about 1.25" compared to the gram light setup (which I still have - discontinued wheels, couldn't sell em), and I got an eastwood fender roller to fix that problem, I actually put a slight flare on them. And the camber is set to about 4 degrees negative in the rear, 4.5 in the front.
Hey thanks for putting up the pics in the forum!
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^^^LOL.
Oh more detail on the wheel specs, the REAL volk TE37's offset of +30mm would be PERFECT, I have roughly 3/4-1" of space between the inside of the wheel and the ksports. But when it is $600 vs. $2200, you can see why I made the fender rolling sacrifice. That and I LOVE the sunken in look of low offset wheels smile.gif .
And the car handles CRAZY compared to the gram lights, unbelievable difference in cornering capability, I guess it is from the extra 3" of width, the extra 10mm of tire, and I think the extreme negative camber played a part as well, lol.
Oh more detail on the wheel specs, the REAL volk TE37's offset of +30mm would be PERFECT, I have roughly 3/4-1" of space between the inside of the wheel and the ksports. But when it is $600 vs. $2200, you can see why I made the fender rolling sacrifice. That and I LOVE the sunken in look of low offset wheels smile.gif .
And the car handles CRAZY compared to the gram lights, unbelievable difference in cornering capability, I guess it is from the extra 3" of width, the extra 10mm of tire, and I think the extreme negative camber played a part as well, lol.
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Looking good except for the holes for the bar. I'd make some sort of cover to wrap around the bar and the door sill, then seal it up with some edge trim/weather stripping or something. Overall it looks good. The extra wheel camber make it look mean.
