[steve]

I needed a front bar for the Rallyzook, so scrounged through the junk pile and had enough stuff for a tube bar. I was going to make a box section bar but thought this might be lighter.

Brackets...


I bent some 50mm gal pipe with my crapper bender...


I used some 35mm pipe for the lower section...


Welded some plate to the ends both pipes to make them look neat, and strength...


put a strip of plate running down the bracket, for looks i guess..


put some plate along the top tube as a bracket for the spot lights...


finished and painted, with the spotlights...

[Hybrid]

Nice work. Your a fabrication machine. Are you on "sick"leave or something? hehe

[steve]

hah, no friends so nothing else to do

took 6 hours start to finish, probably slow compared to people that know what they are doing. I'm pretty happy with it.

I'm still thinking about how to work some indicators in there. The ones i have might be a bit big so might look around for something slimmer/smaller.

[Scrawny]

steve wrote:

hah, no friends so nothing else to do

What about me?? I came and had a beer with ya

[royce]

is it going to be registered? if not jsut dont have any

[steve]

Scrawn, yeah but you'll go to anyones place for beer, it'll be Gregs place tomorrow

Royce, not sure about rego yet, if i get it registered later on i can sell the white sierra. Who knows, plans will change next week.

[Built4thrashing]

you should bolt it on better and use crush tubes through the ends of the chasis

[steve]

yep, gonna do that.

[Zook_Fan]

how thick are those brackets?

[steve]

5mm, not thick enough? I thought about making some extra brackets for support, and still might, but at the moment i'm thinking if i hit something it's all going to be wrecked anyway, so what's the difference? Or maybe low impact hits could be ok with stronger brackets?

[Zook_Fan]

nah when you think about it the stronger the bullbar mounts are the more force the chassis has to absorb. I say let the bullbar have some give that way you may potentially save your chassis. Low impact hits probably would be ok but its rally, nothing is low impact or soft. It is go hard or go home

[steve]

too late zookfan, you've got me worried now... i know what you mean and that's what i was thinking too, i thought if the bar is too strong then it'll probably bend the chassis, because the chassis is only thin, but te chassis end is pretty well supported on the end, where as the bar brackets are long and thin, which if you hit something the bar might just bend sideways as the brackets fold sideways... hrm.. who knows... maybe another beer will help

[Zook_Fan]

hehehe i can make anyone worried.... When you add the crush tubes to the chassis, add another bracket on the other side of the chassis and weld a piece of tube or box in between the two brackets. That will help stop a lot of side to side movement. OR a 6 pack and you will never think twice, until you run into the tree.

[acc1]

Tis a pretty grooovy bar

[2stroker]

Steve are you planning on running into things...... if not it looks fine to me, it's really just a place to mount your spotlights. Mate in a lot of events you are required to have indicators and hazard lights front and back and even a high mount dust light and high mount brake light

[guerd87]

good job mate. The bar is so simple yet looks tops!

[andrewa]

top work steve. looks good.

[brad-parker]

im really interested in this but i cant see any of the photos ? have any spares you can send us.

cheers.

[steve]

brad-parker wrote:

im really interested in this but i cant see any of the photos ? have any spares you can send us.

cheers.

i fixed all the links

[brad-parker]

thanks man pitty i didnt wait for this , ended up making my own just from mental thought brackets were the hardest part.

dosent look so bad so im happy still havent completely finished it as im going to bend the first tube in towards the body.

[abclarke]

Fuck yeah man looks sick! Might be making one of these soon

[Shansh]

fatzook uses strip type indicators on his bars, might be worth asking what he wants for a set?