Well I have been helping a kid in my Chassis Fab class put a roll cage in his EK civic hatch. We are using 1 5/8" 120wall DOM tubing. We are making it all from scratch and the whole cage will be TIG welded except where the plates meet the floor. Its a pretty fun project. Here are some pics of the progress. Todays project was the brace between the strut towers. It was a PITA welding the tubing to the plates but I got it done. We didnt have a hand control so I had to use the pedal the whole time. Let me tell you, there are contortionist that couldnt get into the positions I was in to weld this thing.

I will keep you guys updated with pics as we go.

 

Looking good! Looks like you're getting some invaluable abilities in your training. GREAT hands on training.

 

hey, wanna help me build one for the buick? maby some new 1/4 panels & a trunkfloor while were at it?? lol.... that looks like damn good work, ive seen shops that do worse jobs than that.....

 

Damn, great looking welds there. Looks good, better keep us updated.

 

Looks great and I second great looking welds.

 

...Matt, again thanks for posting/sharing your gifted talent. I am impressed with everything you've been doing,
and even your one of a kind MailBox...We also appreciat all your contributions to our Monte Carlo Family...Member's like you keep the MCF the best Forum on the WorldWideWide 4-Sure : ) Good Luck in all you do....Oh, keep shar'in it : )

 

Nice! Good welds too.

 

Good work Matt!

Practice makes perfect. And it looks like you've gotten quite a bit of practice!

 

Thanks everyone. We got some more done today but nothing worth taking pics of. Ill probably have more pics of the progress tomorrow if we arent in the classroom all day.

 

Here are some more pics of the progress. We got the rest of the X done today and Aaron welded most of it in. Luckily he wanted to weld today so I only had to weld one joint today. I wont complain. The only thing left to do is make the door bars. What do you think?








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