{"id":354,"date":"2007-05-22T16:52:26","date_gmt":"2007-05-22T15:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.com\/skodarallyblog\/?p=354"},"modified":"2009-06-14T21:04:36","modified_gmt":"2009-06-14T20:04:36","slug":"and-so-it-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/?p=354","title":{"rendered":"And so it begins&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, two nice things arrived.  My harnesses (Sabelt 6-pt ones with aluminium release &#8211; an ebay \u00a3200 bargain!), and the rollcage.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I say &#8220;Roll Cage&#8221;, I mean &#8220;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&#8221;.  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&#8217;t any photos of the Felicia cage as &#8220;not that many were installed&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Oh good.<\/p>\n<p>So, I&#8217;ve put some of the tubes in place in the car, but some of it is a mystery.  There are varying levels of mystery:<\/p>\n<p>Easy &#8211; height of the dash bar, direction of the door bars (one is full length, the other is two pieces)<\/p>\n<p>Medium &#8211; the rear of the cage &#8211; the diagonal section and the rear stays &#8211; there are upper and lowers, and the lengths given are a little bit confusing<\/p>\n<p>Hard &#8211; the tunnel brace and front triangulation &#8211; no idea at all about these at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m waiting for a phone call back from CC so I can pick their chief fabricator&#8217;s brain about this.  Perhaps I was being a bit naeve, but I did expect a CAD diagram of the assembled cage &#8211; that would probably have answered most if not all of my questions&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got all of next week off, so hopefully by the end of next week there will be some progress.  In the meantime, it&#8217;s just a pile of tubes and a confused \/ disheartened owner.  You can picture that yourself!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, two nice things arrived. My harnesses (Sabelt 6-pt ones with aluminium release &#8211; an ebay \u00a3200 bargain!), and the rollcage. Well, I say &#8220;Roll Cage&#8221;, I mean &#8220;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-build"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":565,"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions\/565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}