Roll bar brackets

As I had an hour to work on the car today I decided to fit the brackets for the roll bars, which also involves drilling the holes for the seat belt eye bolts. 

This brackets themselves are one of the most straight forward jobs there is, simple M8 bolts with spring and normal washers is enough to lock them down but it does take time as there is lots of off/on as you figure out the correct positioning for the eye bolt.

There was two holes in my body where AK had drilled the holes to pre-fit the roll bars and I found the eye bolts to be roughly 5 3/4 inches from this hole, about 3.75cm from the back wall lip. (apologies for the change from imperial to metric - I do that sometimes)

Frankly is a bit of trial and error but dont worry too much as you can easily fix a mistake with some P-40 (I'll certainly be doing this)

Many people complain about vibration in the roll hoops so I have fitted some silent coat to the underside of the brackets as removing vibration is one of its key features. 

For the bracket that is pre-fitted to the chassis I'll need to cut a circular piece and place it into the bottom of the bracket. This should significantly reduce vibration.




As this job went quite well I decided to place the roll bars into position. 

You can see from the photo that one went in easily, however the other is going to required some man handling to get into place so I decided to call it a day and I'll come back to this job later.

Looking back as I close the garage its a major motivation seeing a car instead of a rolling chassis; it really feels like I getting somewhere with it now. 

Hopefully I'll be able to get some time in the garage over the coming weeks to fit the rest of the lights, locks and latches as the windscreen is being collected at stoneleigh.