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Simons started the rollcage with some com-
pound bends for the A-pillar. Rather than
place the A-pillar in the doorway where it would
always be a trip hazard like on a t y pical Jeep,
we decided to recess the rollcage into the dash
and made the trailing edge of the tubing roughly
even with the trailing edge of the kick panels.
We also cut the dash in such a way that it will
still be removable for easy access when it’s time
for wiring and gauges.8
Our priorities with designing the cage were
to maximize headroom and still make the
top easily removable, so Simons tried to keep
everything tight to the inside of the top with-
out interfering with it. As you can see here, the
A-pillar follows the top rearward just above the
top of the door opening, so there will be plenty
of headroom for people over 6 feet tall. We were
also concerned about keeping the door openings
square w hen we hacked away at the rocker s, so
we added temporary crossbraces in the doorway.9
Simons tied the two A-pillars together with
a single U-shaped halo that extends all the
way back to what will be the C pillar. Expert
rollcage fabricator s have no issues mak ing com -
pound bends meet perfectly every time, but pull-
ing off a halo like this for backyard fabricators
is a huge challenge. The payof f, however, is an
entire halo and A-pillar consisting of only three
pieces of tubing. The two splices that join the
pieces together are sleeved internally and will
al so have rosette welds. In case you were won -
dering, the top came on and off about 50 times
while we were figuring out the rollcage.789801-255-3737 | [email protected]
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