TTR or Safety Devices roll cage fitting

[ElanSeries2]

Hello all

Those of you who have fitted the TTR or Safety Devices roll cage: did any of you have a problem with the alignment of the sill bars with the saddle brackets on the roll over bar? On my car, they just don't seem to be at the right angle at all. I'm seriously contemplating taking the saddle brackets off and rewelding at a better angle. Am I being too precious? Do you just push everything together and then keep tightening until nothing moves? Did everyone elses brackets fit perfectly straight away?

Contemplating welding inside my Elan... Things have to be serious!
Greg

[batfish]

Greg
I have fitted a TTR roll cage this year and did not have any problem with the bracket alignment, it went together fairly easily
Regards

andy

[SADLOTUS]

Hi Greg, my TTR cage was a bit of a bugger to fit as well, bearing in mind you've an S2 and mine's an S4 there are bound to be a few differences.
My saddle brackets also seemed out of alignment slightly, but, pulling the top of the cage forward a little allowed the brackets to line up better - this meant the part of the cage that fitted the suspension uprights was two inches away from the chassis! Actually I needed this gap because the hood tray would have fouled the rear support bars. Paul Matty suggested I put a stud in the rear suspension with an ally spacer between, which I did. This made space for the bars, the hood tray and the carpet back/trim board thing.
Also, the strengthening rods got in the way of the sidebars and had to be very slightly bent/pulled to one side to get the fit.
I put everything in loose and finger tight then went around gradually tightening it all up.