Rova Time

Monday, June 4, 2012

A little progress...

Installed the rear shocks and rolled the Rover outside with a little help from my dad this weekend. The proceeded to clean out the garage! :D

Once I tig'd the back section of the cage in I had to section these bars to allow the firewall to come out in the future

New joint for the front bars

Monday, January 23, 2012

Exhaust II

Exhaust is all mocked up. Just need to pull it off and tig it all up.

Mount on outrigger

Mount on crossmember

Thursday, December 29, 2011

Well I guess that remains to be seen but the muffler is pretty nice for $40. I;m not sure what it's packed with but it's stainless and looks just like a Magnaflow. I'll probably put a pair of these on the STI.

Not huge fan of polished tubing but it was cheap...

Muffler next to the transmission.

Downpipe to turbo connection

10" flex joint was a bit overkill but it's all they had in stock.

Need to order one more 45deg bend to finish it off.

Saturday, December 3, 2011

Bulkhead

Finally cut out the bulkhead. Need to design a new bulkhead and seat shelf now.

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Preperation-H

Hi tech template for cutting arches to match

Hopefully this will be the final ride height

I'm 95% sure I'll remake the bench and bulkhead from scratch. In order to permanently install the cage the bedsides have to come off individually.

I will start by pulling the tub then cutting off the 2 bolt flanges. Then a ~1" tube stub will be inserted and welded in place. Probably with a few holes for rose welds.

Almost forgot.. Decided to use the original cobra transmission mount. Only down side is the transmission needs to be jacked up a couple of inches to install it. Might make trail side repairs a PITA..