Whats your plans for the car when its finished?
Yeah and a cage like that costs nothing close to 8gs.
It’s legal for Formula D and NASA CCR rules. It’s also legal for Redline Time Attack, but their rules are pretty much a joke. We discussed this pretty heavily and with the shock towers fully seam welded and the plates there he didn’t think it would have much much of a difference.
I would like to run some time trial events and drift events with the car, but one of the main goes is exposure to my sponsors and the people are helping support and build this car. So, we will want to hit a bunch of shows and media outlets early next year as well.
juicedz4 brought up a good concern about the rear braces. Per NASA CCR the rear braces should be located as close as possible to the top of the main hoop, but no more than 6 inches below the top. The rear braces should be also be installed between 105 and 75 degree angle with the main hoop when viewed from the top.
Why didnt you run the rear braces down to the shock tower, and the install a cross brace in between both rear braces?
nice work
I just got off the phone with NASA and my cage builder… Looks like we did forget that extra bar. I’m not sure if the rules changed for that when we first started designing. No big deal though, he’ll add those bars and we’ll be good to go. Thanks so much for catching that, guys! 
NICE!:tup:
Ya, those bars seem pretty standard, which is why I questioned it. You probably dont need the other bars from the harness bar back, but for the extra couple pounds it cant hurt.
Dan
Yeah exactly. Thanks again
Car looks great…:tup:
Keep up the good work.
I was looking at the RX8 Grand Am cage yesterday. It will be nearly identical to yours after you add those last two bars in.
I think you should add some sheet metal gussets here/there as well. Even if its just b/c they look cool, haha. Some good places would be on the sides of the X of the door bars, and in the V of the two bars that go from the rear strut brace to the hoop.
Also tie in the top of the hoop to the roof, and the A pillar bars to the A pillars themselves. A simple piece of 1/8" steel with some holes drilled in it would even work where space is tight (like to the roof).
Dan
That is a really nice looking cage but since everyone is nit picking…
Front downtubes are 2 bends max; there is one bend at the bottom of the A pillar, one bend at the top of the A pillar, and one bend joining to the main hoop/rear hoop support.
Rear hoops are supose to be un-intereupted so as mentioned before the X does not sufice.
All of that depends on how picky the tech inspector is. I have seen some really sketchy stuff get logbooked so I wouldn’t sweat it.
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man i want a cage so bad, im jealous,
Yeah, my cage guy is going to tie it in wherever he can. I forgot if I mentioned earlier but he’s going to run two bars off the front downtubes to a plate on the firewall also. I asked about the gussets but he didn’t think they were need on the xbraces. I know he’s anxious to get the car finished and out of his garage since he’s had it since may LOL.
Yeah I see what you’re saying. From a structural standpoint the bends are not in the same plane of direction so it wouldn’t really affect the cage in a negative way, but hopefully it won’t affect anything for sanctioning.
Yeah with those extra rear bars, I should be pretty much set. It’s clearly overkill for most drift events, but I wanted to be legal for NASA time trials and possibly w2w.
whats goin on! i wanna see some progress
^agreed
Just curious, what ever happened to this car?
+1 for updates. I bet those sponsors want to see the car getting some attention!! Heh.