ROLL CAGES - Help haha

[Gokiwi64]

That one in the link is actually FIA approved , however FIA approval not required for track day use. If interested its covered under MSA Appendix J article 253.

In fact roll cages are not required for trackdays , at this level it purely optional and is really only needed for your own saftey/peace of mind.

 

[SlashProm]

Not a clue mate, but it would be worth ringing a few local fabricators to enquire. If you factor in the £600 for a cage and then probably £300-£400 of someones time to weld the odd bits and modify harness bars and stuff. That's a lot of money for a cage.

Where as if you went to a decent fab shop and asked for a custom cage, it might work out cheaper for them to build you one from scratch and you'd also have a lot more input on what you want it to be and to what spec. Example, a cross member at the back for symmetry instead of just one diagonal. You can also have new seat rails made up and fitted for your bucket seats as I'm assuming you want a cage and harnesses.

 

[SlashProm]

Take a look at this, very interesting and a lot is shown, he started with a bought cage and had it modified, looks fecking shweet.

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Enjoy.

All I could get of what cage he used, sorry for the screenshot lol.

 

[Bigford11]

Not a clue mate, but it would be worth ringing a few local fabricators to enquire. If you factor in the £600 for a cage and then probably £300-£400 of someones time to weld the odd bits and modify harness bars and stuff. That's a lot of money for a cage.

Where as if you went to a decent fab shop and asked for a custom cage, it might work out cheaper for them to build you one from scratch and you'd also have a lot more input on what you want it to be and to what spec. Example, a cross member at the back for symmetry instead of just one diagonal. You can also have new seat rails made up and fitted for your bucket seats as I'm assuming you want a cage and harnesses.

Brilliant thanks, ill take a look at those videos after work, i think by the sounds of it, i might be better getting one made and welded in by one place.

Thanks again

 

[Manic172]

Lovely welding splatter going over the wiring looms and door cards lol.
Should strip the car completely be for welding or cover with blankets

 

[Manic172]

Seat rails are bollox.. the rears gonna flex with the floor. And the front where he welded it he had started to drill out the spot weld.. he hasn't strengthened the floors on the tears so a nice impact and it's gonna pull out or and upwards impact it will push the seat up
He goes on about weight saving then covers the rear arches in sound deadening

 

[Bigford11]

I completely forgot to watch this last night, ill be sure to check it out, hopefully on lunch today haha

 

[SlashProm]

I'd assume that they fitted some reinforcement under the floor for the seats off camera like they should do for the eyelet for the harness into the exhaust tunnel, pretty sure it was mentioned it would be needed in the video but never showed it done. Either way it was more just a video reference for what kind of cage was used, where it welds in, what else you might need like a harness bar and stuff, rather than a copy this and your gucci