A good way to duplicate a mirror image on pipe like that especially is to wrap a few layers of masking tape around it then trim off where u have your cuts on the pipe, then just slice the tape and peel it off all in one piece then you can just turn it inside out and put it on your second pipe and it’ll give you the reverse image of the first 👍
Ive watched 50 or more videos about coping tubing for cages and frames. You made it click in my mind. Simple details are way better than guys with proteactors, and angle finders, trying to describe it with complicated geometry, when all thats needed was a square, a tape, and a few marks on a pattern. You are AMAZING!!!
I simply can't believe you are making Crusty... a Toyota Corolla... into a race car. And here I thought Sarah n Tuned, on her channel, was being a bit over zealous dropping a V8 from a Titan into an old Celica. I had a Corolla while I was restoring my 66 mustang... it had a 2 speed automatic... but I had to have something to drive while my mustang was in pieces. I learned quickly to speak Japanese style to my Corolla or I'd have problems... "Most honorable Corolla, ... etc." Having fun watching you. I sometimes wish it went more quickly, but I know you'll get there eventually. I'm just pleased to have found someone who has both a mustang and a corolla like I did... lol.
Don't sell yourself short my friend! :) Very difficult and detailed work! I am glad to see the small assortment of "ooops" pieces:) makes me feel not so bad!:) Thanks!
Excellent video! Takes me back about 40 years when my lawn was over grown, house needed painting but I had a race car and crummy trailer to get to the track! Thanks for the awesome explanation
Turns out, just like always, the tips were good! Thank you Fitzee, from Kansas City. If you ever show up here I would be honored to buy your meal and adult beverages.
Fitzee, in a drag-only setup, you can mount the turbo anywhere in the car that is most convenient. By that, I mean that you van mount it under and behind the engine, also. Build typical headers, add a Y pipe, bolt the turbo to that, and then plumb forward to the throttle body. The turbo is simply a air compressor. On a street setup, mounting it under and away would lead to more turbo lag, but in a drag setup, you build boost on the line, and hold the damn thing to the floor for the entire run, so lag is of no concern. Measure the boost at the throttle body, and any pressure loss due to the length of the plumbing will automagically be factored-in. Love your content and advice. You completely changed, for the better, how I do body panels with your cut 'n butt method! Thanks!
I had an idea that I thought I would pass along. When making the template for the door jambs I thought about using PVC pipe as your initial guide. Because with a heat gun it can be manipulated to the shape you want and it's easy to cut. I thought it might save a little bit of lay out time. I also recon if for some reason you come up short you could use a coupling or couplings to increase your length. My thought was heat the pipe all the way around and a little beyond your desired length and use your tubing Bender to get your shape. Exactly the same way as steel. Just a thought. The job looks incredible as of now Tony!
As always, another great video Tony. I can't wait to see this thing done. She is going to be one beastly little car. Horsepower to weight ratio is going to be insane. Totally love watching your Channel. Always great tips in every one of your fabrication videos. Your fabrication videos are totally my favorite. But I enjoy watching all your videos. I hope you and yours had a wonderful Christmas and hope you have a prosperous and Happy New Year. Keep up the awesome content sir! Keep On Keeping On Brother!!! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
One of the best fitting home made roll cage that I have seen. And I have been racing (road racing mostly) for 27 years. Please put an X-brace in. I know they are less popular in drag racing. But if you unfortunately end on a corner of the roof, the lack of triangulation can allow the cage to shift. You can put in your back down tubes if you need the room in your main hoop. Keep up the good work! Ps: Hope to see Peanut do the inspection in a future episode.
Even with that paper thin body it’s gonna be the most solid car around with all that tubing, it should set up real nice for drag racing for you. I can’t wait to see you let it rip! 👍
Dang nice job I can tell you after building a couple of race cars for my wife notching pipe and fitting pipe for the cages is very stressful you definitely do not want to make a mistake love the video love the tips thank you
Great tips! It is very methodical and is looking strong. Can't wait to see how the intake and exhaust system is going to look now that you're having less space to work with. It's not going to be easy, but I know you can do it! You're a pro!
What a mental challenge! Wow Tony so much to consider. I just keep thinking of things like where/how are the headers going and where/how is the steering column going? Really enjoying this build! Thanks for sharing it with us.
Happy New Year to you and your family. Another awesome Video of Crusty! Thank you for showing us ways to fabricate a roll cage with simple tools. It's come a long way and still has a long way to go but please keep it coming! You have thought me so much over the years. Keep up the good work. Stay healthy and safe.
I made every notch in the tube chassis on the buggy in my videos with a grinder. Wen’t through quite a few cutting disks and flap wheels but every notch was nice and tight. Love your videos.
Mr.Fitzee,I absolutely love watching all of your videos. I hope this doesn't get you or me in trouble; but, There's a company that makes a killer turbo mount an the companies name is Maven Performance. Good luck young man, Joe C.
A ton of great information. Going to have to find some scrap pipe to practice on. I hope you give us a little extra time to study this before you have a quiz on this.
Looks good… Wow!!! That cage was a ton of work….It’s one of those things that you never hope to depend on but you put forth the extra effort just in case…
Wow i been waiting for this new video. Tony what a great job on the whole cage so far. Your year of experience really comes out . Keep up with the great videos i really appreciate learning some new stuff you teach have a grwat new year thanks rob
Thanks, the tips were great! I'm only building inner body structure with exhaust pipe and conduit (because there is nothing there) but the process is the same. When it comes to building crash protection, I'll team up with my neighbor, he used to build stock cars.
Tony for your rear down bars I'd of made a bend in your pipe to the upward angle and flat mounted the end to the frame rail..... as fro your gussets Id just use the short rems of your 1 3/4 pipe and make gussets using angle cuts it's easy to do plus it makes for a lot stronger gusset!
When I was a welder fitter I spent a lot of time welding railings, catwalks excetra, and would weld two inch pipe like this for days it seemed at times. I would cut and grind those bird mouths basically the same way as you just did them. When your doing this for a living you get pretty dern fast and accurate with cutting bird mouths. LOL Yeah that coating on steel pipe is FBE Fusion Bonded Epoxy they use that for its corrosion resistant properties.
How are you lifting the car body off to weld and paint the roll cage? Hoist maybe? Make sure you put all this in one folder for later reference and number the titles so we can follow the sequence again. Looking strong and congratulations on getting Crusty this far. The notching does take practice and I have floundered a few in the past.
I did the steel tube frame for an aluminium bodied Austin 7 the same way just using an angle grinder to fish mouth the tubes. That tube was only 19 mm diameter ERW tubing though. The frame was then all brazed together.
Fitzee you will end up with so much triangulation of the frame that it will in effect be a solid metal brick that has no give what so ever. In the event of an impact it will not have the ability to absorb the resultant energy all to the detriment of the contents (you)! Might I humbly suggest you consider introducing some crumple capacity to the frame which can be easily created by some judicial slotting of the frame rails. Otherwise your craftmanship is quite exceptional.
I use a spindle sander with interchangeable spindle sizes to cope all my pipe. Saves alot of time amd you can really tune in where and how the pipe sits
Hi Tony. I think the way you sculpt the pipe with the grinder makes an even closer joint than from a hole saw jig! Thanks for sharing this. The LS engine looks really wicked in old Crusty. I was going to ask if you think it will run in the 5's, but I see you had a 5.35 on the Mustang, so I guess the answer would be yes. It's going to be a little rocket ship, especially with the turbo. Looking forward to seeing some of that action, when the time comes. There is a guy on TH-cam named Richard Holdener who has a lot of science around building a stout LS. Don't know if you've watched him or not, but figured I'd tell you in case you want to look him up. Thanks for the video!
Happy new year! Interesting stuff young man. In the past l have done fish mouth joints with just a worn 40 grit flap disc to grind in the shape. But a couple of years ago l made a jig to suit my mag drill and now use a TCT hole saw and get accurate and quick fish mouths on two inch nice and easy. Always great to see your work squire!
Excellent instructional as always !!! :] always picking up on the new tips!! 😀 Q: thought there would be a 1 diagonal across the halo to further stiffen the cage against diagonal impacts but I think that is required for a specific class of racer (road racing maybe?) you have been inspiring me every weekend which helps motivate to keep moving forward with my project for almost 2 years now 👍... :D looking forward to more vids... keep them coming, yeah? Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and Family
Fisheye, fish mouth, and fish tales. Automotive terms that any hotrodder can identify with. Tony your tips are priceless, I used to cut a V notch and then grind on either side of the bar intersection but never again. I sent more pics (Crusty) to your email but nothing looks good to me.
Dam you are good I wish I would have seen your videos before I started on my hot rod you could have saved me a lot of time and money thanks again for all your videos!! I have one question are you in America or somewhere else you have a little bit of an accent I would like to be able to talk to you in person thanks again very helpful
A good way to duplicate a mirror image on pipe like that especially is to wrap a few layers of masking tape around it then trim off where u have your cuts on the pipe, then just slice the tape and peel it off all in one piece then you can just turn it inside out and put it on your second pipe and it’ll give you the reverse image of the first 👍
Ive watched 50 or more videos about coping tubing for cages and frames. You made it click in my mind. Simple details are way better than guys with proteactors, and angle finders, trying to describe it with complicated geometry, when all thats needed was a square, a tape, and a few marks on a pattern. You are AMAZING!!!
That was supposed to be "protractors"
That cage has been a TON of work, very well done. Your approach to these projects is very encouraging for the less experienced, " good on yah...."
Christmas must have been fun at Fitzee’s house, with him carving the turkey using a grinder and cut off wheel!
You notched that in 3 minutes! Faster and cheaper. You are a GENIUS
I simply can't believe you are making Crusty... a Toyota Corolla... into a race car. And here I thought Sarah n Tuned, on her channel, was being a bit over zealous dropping a V8 from a Titan into an old Celica. I had a Corolla while I was restoring my 66 mustang... it had a 2 speed automatic... but I had to have something to drive while my mustang was in pieces. I learned quickly to speak Japanese style to my Corolla or I'd have problems... "Most honorable Corolla, ... etc." Having fun watching you. I sometimes wish it went more quickly, but I know you'll get there eventually. I'm just pleased to have found someone who has both a mustang and a corolla like I did... lol.
I'm very Entertained. Tips, tricks, effort and Love were much put in this. Love that Corolla. Keep on building it. So much inspired to this.
I almost finished fixing xjs sill today. Time to relax watching fitzee do metal fab
Don't sell yourself short my friend! :) Very difficult and detailed work! I am glad to see the small assortment of "ooops" pieces:) makes me feel not so bad!:) Thanks!
Been missing you. Thought you took the winter off. Now I see you have been VERY busy. Thanks.
Mr. Fitzee, very insightful content as always. You're my go to guy when it comes to innovation and metal savvy!
Excellent video! Takes me back about 40 years when my lawn was over grown, house needed painting but I had a race car and crummy trailer to get to the track! Thanks for the awesome explanation
ur a legend i dont think there is anyone on utube that explains things like u so people can learn god bless u and family
That is a very frustrating job but very rewarding when you are done . Beautiful job Fitz !
Really amazing work fitzee! Thanks again for sharing your down to earth approach with clear and easy to understand descriptions and examples.
Very nice work on that cage. It will be strong and safe. Love how nice and tight it fits the roof.
Great progress. Love your thought process. Thanks for all the detailed instructions
Turns out, just like always, the tips were good! Thank you Fitzee, from Kansas City. If you ever show up here I would be honored to buy your meal and adult beverages.
Hey Tony! That is the absolute best video I’ve ever seen about how to build a roll cage.
Love your work and videos 😃👍
Simple tools - sophisticated brain - gifted hands. He's got it all.
Tips are ALWAYS good my man.
Wow Fitzee. Excellent clip. So much to figure out. Thanks for sharing
Fitzee, in a drag-only setup, you can mount the turbo anywhere in the car that is most convenient. By that, I mean that you van mount it under and behind the engine, also. Build typical headers, add a Y pipe, bolt the turbo to that, and then plumb forward to the throttle body. The turbo is simply a air compressor. On a street setup, mounting it under and away would lead to more turbo lag, but in a drag setup, you build boost on the line, and hold the damn thing to the floor for the entire run, so lag is of no concern. Measure the boost at the throttle body, and any pressure loss due to the length of the plumbing will automagically be factored-in.
Love your content and advice. You completely changed, for the better, how I do body panels with your cut 'n butt method! Thanks!
This car will see street duty as well...but what you say is really interesting! Makes a lot of sense!
I had an idea that I thought I would pass along. When making the template for the door jambs I thought about using PVC pipe as your initial guide. Because with a heat gun it can be manipulated to the shape you want and it's easy to cut. I thought it might save a little bit of lay out time. I also recon if for some reason you come up short you could use a coupling or couplings to increase your length. My thought was heat the pipe all the way around and a little beyond your desired length and use your tubing Bender to get your shape. Exactly the same way as steel. Just a thought. The job looks incredible as of now Tony!
As always, another great video Tony. I can't wait to see this thing done. She is going to be one beastly little car. Horsepower to weight ratio is going to be insane. Totally love watching your Channel. Always great tips in every one of your fabrication videos. Your fabrication videos are totally my favorite. But I enjoy watching all your videos. I hope you and yours had a wonderful Christmas and hope you have a prosperous and Happy New Year. Keep up the awesome content sir! Keep On Keeping On Brother!!! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Excellent tutorial. I learn so much from your videos. Crusty is art!
The old rust bucket is looking good!
Thanks for another great video, Tony - and a Happy 2023 - can’t wait to see this car cut some lights!
One of the best fitting home made roll cage that I have seen. And I have been racing (road racing mostly) for 27 years.
Please put an X-brace in. I know they are less popular in drag racing. But if you unfortunately end on a corner of the roof, the lack of triangulation can allow the cage to shift. You can put in your back down tubes if you need the room in your main hoop.
Keep up the good work!
Ps: Hope to see Peanut do the inspection in a future episode.
Yet another awesome video Tony, thanks for sharing your time and expertise it’s really appreciated 👍🇦🇺
Another phenomenal video Fitzee!!!
Thoroughly enjoyed it!
Looking forward to the next one!👍👌
That was an amazing bit of work that is well thought out and looks great.
Even with that paper thin body it’s gonna be the most solid car around with all that tubing, it should set up real nice for drag racing for you. I can’t wait to see you let it rip! 👍
Thank you for your time. I much prefer your style of video to the time lapse wham bam thank you ma'am style. Keep up the great work.
Nice technic on bar notches .... outstanding work... rock on fitzee...🙂👍🙏
Dang nice job I can tell you after building a couple of race cars for my wife notching pipe and fitting pipe for the cages is very stressful you definitely do not want to make a mistake love the video love the tips thank you
Very cool seeing how it’s coming together Crusty will be ready for the track in no time
Great tips! It is very methodical and is looking strong. Can't wait to see how the intake and exhaust system is going to look now that you're having less space to work with.
It's not going to be easy, but I know you can do it! You're a pro!
What a mental challenge! Wow Tony so much to consider. I just keep thinking of things like where/how are the headers going and where/how is the steering column going? Really enjoying this build! Thanks for sharing it with us.
as always , my favorite part, no fancy tool needed to get the job done, objective accomplished , nice job Tony, !!! 👍✔
Happy New Year to you and your family. Another awesome Video of Crusty! Thank you for showing us ways to fabricate a roll cage with simple tools. It's come a long way and still has a long way to go but please keep it coming! You have thought me so much over the years. Keep up the good work. Stay healthy and safe.
Great Canadian knowledge ! We make the best with less $$$. Keep those vdeo's coming.
I made every notch in the tube chassis on the buggy in my videos with a grinder. Wen’t through quite a few cutting disks and flap wheels but every notch was nice and tight. Love your videos.
All the Best in 2023...to you and yours.
please keep up all the Hard Work and Great Video Content.
thank you...walt+mrs.
Couple more things done,certainly coming together, hope you had a great New Year, all the best to you and your loved ones
Thanks Fitzee, the tips were great. I learned plenty as always.
Mr.Fitzee,I absolutely love watching all of your videos. I hope this doesn't get you or me in trouble; but, There's a company that makes a killer turbo mount an the companies name is Maven Performance. Good luck young man, Joe C.
Tony, you make it look easy! Really nice job!
I had no idea this was the plan for Crusty.... amazing work as always!
A ton of great information. Going to have to find some scrap pipe to practice on. I hope you give us a little extra time to study this before you have a quiz on this.
Fitzee's BACK ! I think I'll stick around !
Looks good… Wow!!! That cage was a ton of work….It’s one of those things that you never hope to depend on but you put forth the extra effort just in case…
A lot of effort and challenges and ideas shared 👍
Guessing the Airbags will come last 😄
Wow i been waiting for this new video. Tony what a great job on the whole cage so far. Your year of experience really comes out . Keep up with the great videos i really appreciate learning some new stuff you teach have a grwat new year thanks rob
We’ll done Fitzee, another great video.!!
Great video. Very reaffirming for the direction I’m heading with the “Golden Mullet”. Thanks brother.
Thanks, the tips were great!
I'm only building inner body structure with exhaust pipe and conduit (because there is nothing there) but the process is the same.
When it comes to building crash protection, I'll team up with my neighbor, he used to build stock cars.
Be sure to paint Crusty Tremclad blue so Wendy thinks you're working on the mustang 😁. Great work as always Tony. Thanks for bringing us along.
as always I really enjoyed this video. Your fab skills are amazing . thanks for sharing . Roll cage looking good
Fitzee is going to start a new channel THE GRINDER!
Tony for your rear down bars I'd of made a bend in your pipe to the upward angle and flat mounted the end to the frame rail.....
as fro your gussets Id just use the short rems of your 1 3/4 pipe and make gussets using angle cuts
it's easy to do plus it makes for a lot stronger gusset!
When I was a welder fitter I spent a lot of time welding railings, catwalks excetra, and would weld two inch pipe like this for days it seemed at times. I would cut and grind those bird mouths basically the same way as you just did them. When your doing this for a living you get pretty dern fast and accurate with cutting bird mouths. LOL Yeah that coating on steel pipe is FBE Fusion Bonded Epoxy they use that for its corrosion resistant properties.
How are you lifting the car body off to weld and paint the roll cage? Hoist maybe? Make sure you put all this in one folder for later reference and number the titles so we can follow the sequence again. Looking strong and congratulations on getting Crusty this far. The notching does take practice and I have floundered a few in the past.
Good lesson in knowing when to walk away and start over!
You have patience my friend.i would have walked away more then once. Nice job.
The knowledge you share is appreciated.
Happy New Year to you. The tips were good as usual. Thanks for sharing your techniques
Top notch as usual, nothing fancy getting it fabbed up
I did the steel tube frame for an aluminium bodied Austin 7 the same way just using an angle grinder to fish mouth the tubes. That tube was only 19 mm diameter ERW tubing though. The frame was then all brazed together.
Excellent workmanship 👍
Nice job absorbing video plenty of food for thought!
Wow, imagine getting sideways at 140 mph. I think that "X" would be a good thing! Stay safe guy!
Fitzee you will end up with so much triangulation of the frame that it will in effect be a solid metal brick that has no give what so ever. In the event of an impact it will not have the ability to absorb the resultant energy all to the detriment of the contents (you)! Might I humbly suggest you consider introducing some crumple capacity to the frame which can be easily created by some judicial slotting of the frame rails. Otherwise your craftmanship is quite exceptional.
Hello Fitzee, nice work on the roll cage. 👌 Take care and be safe 👍
I recently made a transmission support for Allison transmission and thought how would Fitzee do this. Thanks for all your tips.
Your air compressor sounds like the old B John deere tractor we had when I was a kid, must be a twin cylinder!
Good work. Lots of work in a roll cage.
AFTER WATCHING YOU FOR FOR SO SO SO MANY YEARS I LIKE
Hey Tony, good to see you, happy new year!
You could paint the cage white and add black foam sleeves where the windows are for more stealth...
Much better than hole saw jigs, I've never thought of doing it this way.
The tips were great. ;^)
Nice work. Anti roll bar. Makes me want to bend my next cage instead of getting pre bent but benders are quite expensive
This is so wild man, looks very good and secure. So much work doing this cage business.
I use a spindle sander with interchangeable spindle sizes to cope all my pipe. Saves alot of time amd you can really tune in where and how the pipe sits
Hi Tony. I think the way you sculpt the pipe with the grinder makes an even closer joint than from a hole saw jig! Thanks for sharing this. The LS engine looks really wicked in old Crusty. I was going to ask if you think it will run in the 5's, but I see you had a 5.35 on the Mustang, so I guess the answer would be yes. It's going to be a little rocket ship, especially with the turbo. Looking forward to seeing some of that action, when the time comes. There is a guy on TH-cam named Richard Holdener who has a lot of science around building a stout LS. Don't know if you've watched him or not, but figured I'd tell you in case you want to look him up. Thanks for the video!
I have him and a bunch more in my watched list. He has alot of interest info that can be used
Happy new year!
Interesting stuff young man. In the past l have done fish mouth joints with just a worn 40 grit flap disc to grind in the shape.
But a couple of years ago l made a jig to suit my mag drill and now use a TCT hole saw and get accurate and quick fish mouths on two inch nice and easy.
Always great to see your work squire!
Nice job tony. More time consuming than people think.
Excellent instructional as always !!! :] always picking up on the new tips!! 😀
Q: thought there would be a 1 diagonal across the halo to further stiffen the cage against diagonal impacts but I think that is required for a specific class of racer (road racing maybe?)
you have been inspiring me every weekend which helps motivate to keep moving forward with my project for almost 2 years now 👍... :D looking forward to more vids... keep them coming, yeah?
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and Family
I Been looking into that bar. It dont have to be as big as the cage.
Happy New Year Tony. Stunningly good work that is just a joy to watch. Thank you
Tony on the angled fish mouths that are tricky save the cardboard from paper towels rolls and make a test piece that turns into a template
Fisheye, fish mouth, and fish tales. Automotive terms that any hotrodder can identify with. Tony your tips are priceless, I used to cut a V notch and then grind on either side of the bar intersection but never again. I sent more pics (Crusty) to your email but nothing looks good to me.
Another great video! Thanks Tony!
Happy New Year Tony. Awesome video as always. Thanks for posting.
Great tutorial!👍👍👍👍👍
Great lesson Tony.
Thank you
Thank you Fitzee, I appreciate this a lot!
Awesome again Fitz!
Crusty is looking good!!!
I’ve met bartenders who didn’t care as much about their bars as you! 😂. She’ll be safe but still a good idea to keep the greasy side down .
The nice thing about cleaning the bars as you go is when you are done you wont have 3 days of sanding before paint.
Dam you are good I wish I would have seen your videos before I started on my hot rod you could have saved me a lot of time and money thanks again for all your videos!! I have one question are you in America or somewhere else you have a little bit of an accent I would like to be able to talk to you in person thanks again very helpful