"still-born" rally project into IT car?

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mike,

your rear cage braces have a full "X" so you do not NEED a diagonal in the main hoop, (GCR, 9.1.4.B.2.a) though it is certainly something to think about, particularly as you look for mounting points for the shoulder belts and RH net.

regarding cage legality for classes - there are some obvious things like the tabs welded between the cage and chassis at points outside of the IT-allowed 8 attachment points + seat mountings (2 front down tubes, 2 main hoop feet, 2 rear main hoop braces, 2 int-intrusion bars in the footwells - seat mounts are open so long as they are for the seat, yours look OK). the door sil bar is a bit worisome for easy conversion to IT legality. luckily, the car will fit into STL and should be tolerable there. very likely you can keep your cam, too (I didn't look for the specs, but 0.425" lift max in STL, in IT it must be stock). certainly an easy button. and there are a lot of VW options if you want to up the power down the road that would be legal there as well. your car would be ~2300 lbs in STL so pick and choose your cage mods wisely to stay safe and be near min weight. you can put your battery wherever you want in any class but IT.

you do not NEED a seat back brace if that seat is homologated to FIA 8855-1999, which it proboboly is from the look of it, and it is bolted to a rigid structure, not sliders.

oh, and welcome, have fun!

on edit - also, the recomended Angry sheep / Chris Childs would be a good person to discuss the STL option with - he's on the STAC which recomends rules for that class