Pictures from SVA and follow up to fail points
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Full Size (0.88Mb)Here are after our SVA test. A number of fail points but a good day anyway sun and no windscreen! (only nearly swollowed one fly)
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Full Size (0.70Mb)Seat belt ancourage point failed, no documentation to say the seat would withstand an impact. So HUGE! thank to Black-Cat (Tom) for poping round with his TIG and welding this bar in for us. Here he is using a tube notcher to but a perfect edge in.
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Full Size (0.64Mb)The resulting cut in the metal tube
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Full Size (0.68Mb)This is one hell of a piece of kit! Setup your angle and off you go. No need to mess about with an angle grinder bit by bit getting your pipes to line up.
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Full Size (0.70Mb)TIG welders are great, unlike MIG there's no splatter of bits going all over the place!
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Full Size (0.63Mb)Tom squeezed into a compromising position trying to weld under the bar!
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Full Size (0.41Mb)Welded very nicely! This stuff is CDS - cold draw steel (as Tom tells me! I went into metal supermarket in Southampton and asked for steel tube)
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Full Size (0.39Mb)Here's the other side. Lots of sanding was required to clean off the powder coat from the weld area.
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Full Size (0.58Mb)Area covered over cleaned and sanded ready for epoxy roll bar paint.
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Full Size (0.67Mb)Front ready for paint
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Full Size (0.54Mb)Finally several coats of expoy roll bar and chassis paint drying.
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Full Size (0.54Mb)Painted from the front.
