All that was required there was to fit, hold and weld. Chassis Engineering was good to us. Not only did they supply the cage, but they supplied the mini-tubs, parachute mount, parachute cable, misc. I know, they hooked a brother up!
Coming out of the box, here is the Chassis Engineering pre-bent main hoop and top halo bar. This would be the starting point for the kit. Mike started by cutting out two small holes in the floorpan so that we can run the main hoop down to the frame rails as per NHRA and SFI spec.
After taking a few measurements, he cut the legs of the pre-bent main hoop to fit inside our Malibu with enough room for a head liner. When he was happy with the fitment and clearance at the top for the headliner and all around the main hoop, he tack welded it in. Mike says that for him, it is easier to do most of the main hoop section in the car, tack welding it in at first; then bring it out of the car for final welding. That way he has plenty of room to lay down a nice tig welded bead on the cage without interference from anything else.
This is where our Here Mike tig welds the rear part of the funny car cage upgrade — required as per SFI The Before Mike welded the main hoop in, he made these trick plates with a clearanced hole with a hole saw, so that you have a completely sealed and clean floor with the cage going through it.
With the main hoop installed, next on the list was the two rear down bars from the top of the main hoop that run down to the rear trunk cross bar Mike welded under the trunk last week. He started by cutting two slots in the rear deck to give the bars plenty of clearance to run down into the trunk area. Mike plans to use some sheet metal later to fill these in after all of the necessary bars have been run through that area.
Again grabbing from the Chassis Engineering kit, Mike cut the bars down to size and bent them in the rear of the car. After fitting the bars in mike made two similar floor plates as he did for the main hoop and welded everything in. Chassis supplies the rear bars straight here giving you flexibility in your installation. Some install straight bars but we preferred to bend ours. The complete rear down bars. Here is a shot showing where the bars are welded into from under the car.
This is our rear cross bar that will eventually partially support our fuel cell and battery trays. As mentioned, you can see the main hoop with the start of the funny car cage installed in the car on the right. Notice how the cross bar is mounted lower than you would normally see in a pt cage. Maintaining these facilities takes thousands of workers and outages are still common.
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