One of my projects for this car while it's laid up was to "ungut" the interior. What can I say I want a padded shelf in the back . Anyway, the tricky part was that I wanted a clean "pass-through" of the legs to the roll bar/side panels. I looked for pics but couldn't find any so I winged it.

Dug out all the interior pieces (I'm glad I was organized enough to store all the hardware and panels away, my car has been gutted for over 3 years).




First step is to unbolt the roll bar and remove the nitrous bottle. There are (7) bolts on each side (4 that hold the main hoop to the floorboard and 3 that attach the leg to the wheel well).

Underside of the wheelwell:


Floorboard (those are the wires to my bottle warmer and the nitrous bottle brackets):


Wheelwell:


After you've loosened all the bolts to the roll bar the dome light will have to be removed (on moonroof cars anyway, not sure about solid roof cars). (2) 8mm nuts. It's a tight fit.


Alright, I have the roll bar legs removed (you'll have to remove the seats obviously). Put the legs to the side, but the main hoop will stay in the car for the time being.


I bolted the main hoop back in place without the legs (you'll seee why here in a second). I made sure that I photo'd the position of the main hoop proportionate to the headliner for reference.


Why an I showing you a piece of scrap PVC pipe?


I notched the PVC pipe on my table saw (know where I'm going with this?:


I mocked up the side panel temporarily:


I grabbed the previously notched out pipe and held it up to the main hoop. This allowed me to mark the side panel where the bar would pass through (I marked it with a dry erase marker).



After I marked out the panel I busted out the good old cordless drill and hole saw:


2 minutes later I had this:


Obviously, I did the same thing for the other side. Then I started to put everything back in. The main hoop is then unbolted and removed from the car. To get this to work you have to pass the roll bar leg through the panel and then loosely fasten the legs to the wheel wells. Once they are both mocked up I reinstalled the main hoop (you'll need 2 people for sure). It takes some finessing and contorting into strange positions. Leaving the legs loose allows you to tweak it as needed. Tighten the legs first and then the main hoop. Then all that's left is putting the interior back in. Should look something like this:




Finish off with a and a visit to your local friendly chiropractor Thanks for looking, I'm on to the next project.

 

well done

 

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Thanks. I'm sure the flames will start rolling in. Oh well LOL

 

mad dukes of hazzard style backseat entry y00000

 

Might as well take the backseats out, its not like anyone is gonna be sitting back there

 

Very nice work. Ive always wondered how they made those nice perfect cuts into the panels.

Again, nice work man.

BTW, Im not gonna bash you for installing your rear interior back in. I think it looks a lot better with the interior in. My cars been gutted for almost 4 years... I hate it.

 

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My car has been gutted for the past 3+ years with the rollbar. I wanted to put it back in.

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by nerdsports &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Very nice work. Ive always wondered how they made those nice perfect cuts into the panels.

Again, nice work man.

BTW, Im not gonna bash you for installing your rear interior back in. I think it looks a lot better with the interior in. My cars been gutted for almost 4 years... I hate it. </TD></TR></TABLE>
Thank you sir It's a street car so I got tired of a loud gutted interior.

 

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The ironic part is that I'm the spitting image of Luke Duke

 

heres mine but in a crx

 

^Clean

 

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looks good, just dont put anything alive in the backseat

 

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looks good, just dont put anything alive in the backseat </TD></TR></TABLE>

I'm thinking of installing a baby/booster seat back there just to freak people out. LOL

 

Tie the booster seat to the rollbar itself.

 

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LOL

I've wanted a roll bar for years, but having NO experience with a drill, I was worried about drilling through the chassis. Since then, I've had to drill through quite a few things now so I'm not too shy about drilling anymore. My question is, is it pretty hard to drill through the chassis and is a special drill required or anything like that? (maybe a larger/industrial/heavy-duty drill or something?)

 

Better question would be why do you need one?

 

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LOL

I've wanted a roll bar for years, but having NO experience with a drill, I was worried about drilling through the chassis. Since then, I've had to drill through quite a few things now so I'm not too shy about drilling anymore. My question is, is it pretty hard to drill through the chassis and is a special drill required or anything like that? (maybe a larger/industrial/heavy-duty drill or something?)</TD></TR></TABLE>

It's easy to drill, no special tools required besides a bit that can handle drilling metal (not a wood bit).

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That's true, me personally I had aspirations of doing some Auto-Xing with this thing but it never happened for various reasons so now it's just my little street toy that some day may still see an Auto-X.

 

Wish I had an Autopower Bar.

 

damn thats a clean cage in the CRX

 

 

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very clean work

 

looks good

 

nice write up! now show us how to cut a hole for a c-pillar bar for a eg hatch!

 

Done right