Drag Talon Buidlup

With the main hooop support bars done we only had one thing left to do on the roll cage, that was to mount in the harness bar. With the position of the seat and the main hoop in relation to each other we were a little tight on room. To gain a few inches to help with this problem we decided on adding a 45deg bend to each side of the harness bar to help bring it rearward a little. The end result worked out very well and not only gives us the functionality we needed but also adds a little bit of extra aesthetics to the cage.

     

Now having the roll cage out of the way we could concentrate on the rear of the car. This rear structure needed to help us out with 2 things, provide mounting locations for both a parachute and a fuel cell. The mounting of the parachute required that this structure be tied back to the chassis and able to handle a significant amount of force. The fuel cell mounting is is more one of safety and trying to encapsulate it amoungst the tubing as there is no longer any rear bumper for crash protection. Wed decided on a simple triangular setup using the capped frame rails, the bar across the strut towers and a third bar at the rear of the chassis at the required height for our parachhute to exit the rear fascia.

     

The outer structure came out great and now we just had to figure out a mounting solution for the cell. With us having a poly cell we could not just simply weld some tabs to bolt it up much like one would do with an aluminum fuel cell. Instead we came up with teh idea of using a couple of pieces of angle and some small square tubing.

     

Next up...components will actually find their way back onto the car!

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