Making of the roll cage continues pt. 2

The continuous breaking of electric drills meant that we never got the time to drill the extra cooling holes in the front. Now we have three working drills, one of which is new, so it's much easier to make holes. Ofcourse we began using only the used one.

The front part of the car after adding the safety belt tube and door tubes.
We left about 50mm room between the lower door tube and the inner fender so the roll cage doesn't have to be modified when we sometime in the future decide to lower the car even more.

The cockpit roll cage is done except the roof diagonal.

Adding the other main rollbar. It was off 1cm to right, so we had to do some minor adjustment.

We put the dashboard on and made a several mock up versions for the roll cage tubing that will cover the side door. It's quite easy to get into the cockpit, but adding tube in front of the sliding door makes entry really difficult. We'll see what solution we will come up with, something has to be there, just in case.

The interior.

A picture from the side.

And from the front. It's starting to look like a race car.

I just remembered. We checked the year model of the car, it's a -81 that was originally a van when it was imported to Finland. The car has later been registered as a minibus (you have to pay a high amount of tax to do this), so there is a mark of that on the cars papers: "This car has been afterwards changed from van to passenger vehicle, and all taxes have been paid".