My 92 Just got out of the Chassis shop.

As promised here are the initial pics. Nothing super special, typical 4pt roll bar. It is made out of 1 3/4" .120 wall DOM seamless tubing. The center bar going thru the floor is a "pinion snubber" I specified to keep the C-Beam from flexing and my D44 housing in 1 pc. It makes contact directly on top of my ZF Doc C-Beam Plate.

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My long time friend Doug Stevens who I orginally asked to build this for me, did not have time to do it. So I tapped another long time friend to do it. I'm lucky to have been involved in racing my entire life and have so many people close to me who are able to do a first class job.

As you can see Russ also reinforced the front "triangle" mounting point at the frame and cut and put all the fiberglass back to seal the interior up from road noise as much as possible.

I will post a few more pics after I get everything painted, the carpet cut and put back in the car.

BTW cost was $700.00 installed.
Will

Looks like a great job! It would be hell to get my golf clubs in there after that, though ;-)

Looks like you built up the front mount just under the roll hoop.

Was this to move the hoop more forward?

Let us know how the pinion snuber works out.

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Yes Russ plated/reinforced that triangle area a little bit. I've seen a lot of folks mount their main hoops there. He said it was a strong area of the frame and he liked how it moved the main hoop forward a few inches which in his opinion should be better if I ever get this thing on it's roof... No plans to test that BTW.

As for the snubber. I guess if I don't rip the nose off the D44 first launch at the drag strip - we can call it successful...
Will

I like the reinforcement. The snubber is a piece of rubber that touches the c-beam, right? Is it removable in case you need to take out the c-beam? Are there pics of underneath that are visible?

Matthew

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No rubber. The snubber is solid. The tube runs down and has a 1/2" plate the same size as the c beam plate welded to the end. The plate just barley makes contact with the C beam plate. I didn't want any rotational movement from the D44 housing as they tend to rip the case apart or break the pinion/snout off them in really high HP cars. I also have some solid batwing bushings in back to help it out.


The snubber bar is not removeable (at present) but the upper C-Beam plates have the bolts welded/captured in place so it is a simple unbolt from the bottom, then slide the top C-Beam plate out and then slide the C-Beam back and over like normal. I thought that sometime in the future I would like to be able to pre load the housing or whatever - so I still may modify this at a later date.

I will take some pics from the bottom and from the top (with the bar painted and carpet back in the car) this weekend.
Will

way cool!!! I assume it really tightens the chassis, too.

That is SWEET!