home made roll cage
 

Any of you bastards make your own roll cage to stiffen up the chassis a little? I'm getting my own welder soon and was wondering if you guys had any pics of your setup or descriptions of how you did it/how it was set up. Just passing curiousity for now, probably be a summer project because school and work own me right now. I really just need some bars for my bitches to hang on when i'm railing them on my sheetmetal hatch floor

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http://www.safedrives.com/proddetail...RollBar&cat=72

buy it and weld 8)

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nothing will stiffin your chassis up better than a few tie bars and some huge sway bars. upper and lower on the front and the back, along with some sway bars and maybe even some poly bushings is all your gonna need. ;)

if you are building a roll-cage to stiffin up a chassis, its probably gonna be pretty dam worthless, chssis stiffining wise. yes its gonna help, but not like the mentioned above will do.

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hit up ebay in that ^ case i got my whole set (bar and such) for like 115 shipped and bushing were about the same

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I disagree frank, i bet youre gonna notice a HUGE increase in chassis stiffness, youre gonna eliminate most of the play between the front and rear of the car, I bet if you have big suspension mods youll especially notice it

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My cage stiffen my car a whole lot. Before when I would jack it up you could about watch it twist and here it creek.
Now it seems like one big hunk of steel when you work on it.
http://www.eville140.com/starlet10/cage2.jpg

Later
Randy

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wrong...a properly designed cage will stiffen the chassis greatly

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Ever driven a caged car?

I've built a few. All 'homemade', all bent, notched and welded in my garage.

https://www.euronationmotorsport.com...ar_1010006.jpg
https://www.euronationmotorsport.com...ll_bar_163.jpg
https://www.euronationmotorsport.com...tor_rear_L.jpg
https://www.euronationmotorsport.com...or_right_L.jpg

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nice

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Wow that is some nice work.I bought a competition engineering 8pt roll bar kit for my CRX.They are cheap as its a u weld kit that gives you a pre bent main hoop to fit and then a universal 8pt strut kit.The whole thing was $250 CDN or about $200 US.Cant go wrong for the price and it is NHRA legal.I would imagine they make a kit for the Civic as well.Summit has good pricing on there kits.

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wow nice work man. I hope my rollcage looks half that good

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A roll cage's purpose is to protect you from when you roll, hence it's name, but it will also stiffen your chassis.
Rabbit ----, nice work.

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yes, it will, however for a track, nothing more than what I mentioned will be more than enough. unless your goin drifto or something, but for hondas...its not necessary for street use, just me $.02

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Yes, it is.

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No, you want this one:

http://www.safedrives.com/proddetail...ollCage&cat=72

I'd go full 10 pst cage, seen too many lowered Honduhs with trucks driving through the windshield and into your face.

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what are you useing for a bender rabbitshit?

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Damn you guys do some nice work. What are you using for pipe benders for that shite? I'm thinking about the cheaper 8pt prefabbed one you guys posted-- thats a pretty good price isn't it? And junkyard racer-- how did you paint some of those cages? They look like solid units welded in there-- did you tape off the whole inside of the car or something?

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I have this one http://www.pro-tools.com/105.htm
About as cheap as you can get, and a darn good workout.

Later
Randy

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that one looks nice :y

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JD2 Model-3. Pretty close to the same as the Pro-Tools one listed above.