What Do you think of this cage?

Gforce takes their time making cages, and i dunno if they still are or not… but i wanted a cage for my car… im gonna be doing alot of track days next year and well i wanna feel safer soooo

i had a guy in korea track one down for me

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BTW its 350 bux

eh…

I don’t like to see bolts in a cage. I realize it makes it easier to install, and it looks fancy, but you can weld… borrow a bender and make one. Copy this design of course :wink:

not to be a dick
dude, you have with under 300whp. why do you need a cage?

i wont for much longer, i just havnt gotten the time/$$ to go back to the dyno to see what the car can put down… last tiem we tuned it i didnt have an egt guage so we just ended @ 17psi on a crush bent 2.25" exhaust… now i have a full 3" exhaust and an egt guage soooo time to go from there

You can crash in a 50hp car. HP doesn’t have anything to do with it.

even still with what the car weighs, you will need to be making a lot more than 300 to need/have to have a cage

it seems like a waste of time and money until you have actually made the car fast.
you were at 17psi on pump, how much more do you think you can push it before the engine eats itself?

but it wont hurt. you have to be going fast.

maybe i should put a cage in my winter beater, or on my lawn mower. never can tell when a crazed squirl could run out in front of me, and i end up rolling the john deere.

I agree, if You need a cage then You surely don’t need one that’s bolted. Even shitty welds > grade 8 bolts.

wel 17psi on this turbo is @ peak efficency… and going up to 23-26 still puts me above 80%… the motor is fully built… but i dont know how everything is going to act together… i was hoping to get ~mid to high 3’s on pump and somehwere in the 4’s on race gas

but thats for mike @ innovative to decide

that may be where it is efficient BUT… you wont make more than a handful of passes on pump at 26psi before something breaks

i can hear it now

spool spool spool ping ping ping rattle rattle… clunk

agreed

Bad example. Try telling that to my friend whose sister was killed when her lawn tractor rolled on top of her. 12hp, probably going 5mph.

i really hope you’re joking or i will maybe feel bad that i am giggling

good thing theres no god… if there was, i would totally be going to hell

No, I’m not joking. You live in fucking Akron, I’m shocked you haven’t heard of people getting killed by rolling a tractor before.

I rolled a lawn mower on top of me before… it sucked, but I lived.

BTW - Zero - Thats a weak point. If I felt unsafe in my car I’d get a cage. I do enough stupid shit in my car to need one.

From what your saying… just cause he has 300 to the wheels he won’t go fast enough to need a cage… well when he was stock the car could do 105… with 400_ whp the car will just get there quicker… speed kills, not power.

everything on the car is built to take 600 WHP… i dont know what you think would break but whatever

if i get some detonation obviously i will have to scale it back…

Word, people die in car crashes all the time and there not driving 500hp sports cars.

Since he plans on putting a cage in to make his car safer, more power to him.

More of us should do that.

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But not a that cage.

the whole poitn of this thread was to find out if bolt in cages are safe… thats all i know weld in would be better,

what the hell is your problem?

I’m not a fan of the cage he is looking at but I don’t think its stupid to look into a cage if your going to put on some serious performance mods.

Oh yeah sorry. We got a little off track.
I think a bold in would help but I would feel safer with a welded cage. Plus a welded cage will add some chassis rigidity. Bolted cages may enlongate the bolt holes if and when the chassis flexes.