He also had a Polo diesel, on which the gearbox had gone.
I'd been after the SJ for ages, because he hadn't been using it, but now was the time to strike - I swapped the SJ for fitting a replacement gearbox to the Polo. Here it is when it arrived:
First things first - unload the clutter:
It had rotted out around the back of the front seats, so I stripped everything out:
and sorted that (and the split metal around the bolt-down points:
I also bought this, but it was an absolute turd:
So we hacked the ROPS off it. It also came with a couple of scummy bucket seats, so I fitted one of those:
Still on proper rails etc, as per regs.
Then competed all last year, until this happened:
whoops
Here's that moment of stupidity in full:
[youtube]http://youtu.be/Sq6VerqTEpU[/youtube]
Here's the ROPS being made ready to be fitted:
Here's the cage at the stage it is yesterday - welded down on all six stays with box on the front outriggers to support the windscreen stays:
Next up is to notch the diagonals and weld them in, along with finishing the second bucket mount and the harness bars.
Once that's sorted we have a small alloy fuel tank to go on the rear tray, which is where the battery is going as well. Unfortunately extracting the screen cracked when it was being 'gently eased out', so I need a replacement one of those, as well as sorting out the screen mounts, as these both broke when I rolled it.
Oh and at some point a Weber carb was fitted to it - we've found it's no good on trials, as it tends to stall the engine when it's at steep angles - there is an SU being prepped to go on.
All this has been done with assistance from a couple of mates - one who runs a Tomcat-shaped comp-safari motor in SCOR's championship, the second of who is a VAG tech and is one of two people sharing the workshop were the SJ gets worked on.
those are some funky graphics, perfect little vehicle for trialling! That is an interesting cage design, have you tested it since fitting it? 
