Skoda Rally Blog

Yesterday, two nice things arrived. My harnesses (Sabelt 6-pt ones with aluminium release – an ebay £200 bargain!), and the rollcage.

Well, I say “Roll Cage”, I mean “collection of bits of tube, some of which are obvious as to exactly where they go and should fit, while others are less obvious, and some are a complete mystery”. This situation is exacerbated by the lack of any picture/diagram/photo of an installed cage, which would make it mostly a piece of cake. The packing list specifically mentioned a set of photos. I looked for said photos. For 20 minutes, checking all the packaging, etc, three times. Phoned CC today, to find that there aren’t any photos of the Felicia cage as “not that many were installed”.

Oh good.

So, I’ve put some of the tubes in place in the car, but some of it is a mystery. There are varying levels of mystery:

Easy – height of the dash bar, direction of the door bars (one is full length, the other is two pieces)

Medium – the rear of the cage – the diagonal section and the rear stays – there are upper and lowers, and the lengths given are a little bit confusing

Hard – the tunnel brace and front triangulation – no idea at all about these at the moment.

I’m waiting for a phone call back from CC so I can pick their chief fabricator’s brain about this. Perhaps I was being a bit naeve, but I did expect a CAD diagram of the assembled cage – that would probably have answered most if not all of my questions….

I’ve got all of next week off, so hopefully by the end of next week there will be some progress. In the meantime, it’s just a pile of tubes and a confused / disheartened owner. You can picture that yourself!