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The cage is nearly finished so we can move onto other strengthening needs.
First stop: to make the front towing eyes stronger, for two reasons:

1 - If you have to be towed out of a bad ditch by an animal in a tow truck, chances are they will try to drag you any which way to get you out and they wont want to take it steady!
2 - You are mounting the sumpguard from here as seen later on.
Use 2.5mm, cold rolled, plate steel and flange it to the chassis frame. It 'aint mullet proof but it will stand a little more abuse!.

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Being a front wheel drive car, the wheel arches around the front take a massive pounding. On our trusty Diesel after a season of Road Rallying the front wheel arches, chassis section (shown here) and immediate floor pan looked like they had come back from Bosnia.

To help this, again using 2.5mm Steel plate fabricate plates for the chassis section from the subframe mount downwards, the front floor corner point (usually where the trolley jack lifts the car) and the short chassis section into the floor.

A cosmetic item really as well as adding some strength to the centre section point. The gusset is made from 1.2mm plate, folded and holes formed to make it look fancy! It is tied into the floor area above the fuel tank and the strength point where the floor / tunnel meet.

This picture also shows the seat belt mounts welded to the seat runner mountings, its easier to weld them into position as it is a major strength point and if the seat is adjusted either way on the runner the belt mount angle to the seat is perfect.

The windscreen aperture benefits from gussets, they add some strength as well as the cosmetic pose.
A view of the completed front floor mounting point. The door bar, front leg and suspension point all tie up together here.

Make sure the base mount ties in through the floor to the strengthened point for the suspension subframe. Our jacking points finished.

Our jacking points finished:

The square section tube is tied into the base of the cage.When you cut the hole in the outer sill make sure you cut the hole big enough to be able to use a 2.5mm plate section from the top of the tube to the inner section of the door pillar, this will stop any upward movement. Square tube must be used if using a Bilstein quicklift jack.

Same again but a view of the rear mount. Again tie the square section tube to the inner sill and floor with 2.5mm plate.We fitted the square section right through to the inner sill where the fuel tank sits in order to creat the best strength possible.If you dont strengthen it properly the outer sill will bend when you jack the car.