More people are knocking down my door to see some of the shit I work on. I’ve usually let the work, and/or car owners do the talking rather than post it on some fancy website. I’ve been doing this type of work for quite a long time, although had a bit of a hiatus while working for Pete at KTA for a few years. Going to be back in into this full force, especially with my upcoming 962 tube/monocoque hybrid chassis for national sale.
This cage is in Jesse Clark’s E36 M3 IP track car. This is an 8 point + 12, meaning 8 main points and 12 subsequent node junctions at those 8 main points. Not completely done yet(missing 1/4 door bars, flare gussets, etc) but more than enough to show my point. HeArCo2 TIG welded, full 360 joints everywhere. This is not a pre-built cage. I’ve fabricated this out of 23 footers of straight DOM on my mandrel bender.
Pics say it all. Just a few shots, not showing flares, foot protection, etc. Hope you enjoy it.
O hey cool, thats my car. It’s primarily an I-prepared race car for BMWCCA Club Racing but can also do double duty in NASA GTS3.
Before anyone asks, the dash bar is intentionally done like that, as in, intentionally bent in those places to mimic the line of the firewall.
The design is 75% copy of RRTs E36 prepared, 15% Bimmerworld World Touring Car Challenge, and 10% Adam and I modifying or compromising. I’ve been drawing it and simulation testing it for years now and constantly running it by the race car engineer/builders I used to work for.
Adams been pulling some long hours trying to get it done for Mid-Ohio 2 weeks from now and the work is 100% top notch.
The car is IP legal,competitive, and built to the max of the class. It’s NASA GTS3 legal and competitive just not built to the max of the rules (no one is).
The motor (being assembled/swapped in next week) is a complete OBD1 S52 3.2L.
While I will never build a rollcage for a street car though from scratch, I will weld in a prefab cage and modify it accordingly for a street car incase you were wondering. I typically don’t like working cages into any street car for safety reasons and just working around way too much shit in the car, but if the customer is nice and the car isn’t some piece of broken down crap I’ll do it. At least I know it won’t go in any better than what I can do here.
GAP(german auto parts) is a fantastic resource for my Porsche and Audi customers, BMW as well on many occasions. They’ve saved this time schedule in locating S52 main/rod bearings for me in the nick of time for me to complete the build and get this car out on the track on time. Anthony, Mark, Shaun, Brian…all fantastic guys and I’ll promote them any day of the week for what they pull for me :thumb
