new logbook/roll cage

[tom91ita]

putting a cage into an abandoned project car. my own....

car will be STL and ITA CRX. i am pretty sure i know the response but since the GCR sometimes refers to "Production" as a class and other times as an overall category "Production based cars" i want to make sure this is ok.

planning on 1.5" by 0.095" for good up to 2699 #'s per GCR page 118 for Production based cars.

ITA weight is 2250
STL weight is 2160 (with 1.6L engine)

if i go with a 1.8L swap later in STL, then weight is 2430 per GCR page 546

 

[Rabbit07]

Tom

You'll be ok. Let me know If I can help, we do custom cages and I'm relatively close to you.

 

[tom91ita]

chris,

thanks for the offer. i plan to use some of my photos of Greg's cage and do some bartering with Adam Jabaay (LeMons teammate) for the cage. i have a "kit" that i picked up from Lee Grimes some years ago. so it is mostly welding better than mine that i need help with right now..

i hope to do the 3 majors and you are in route. with majors at MIS and Gingerman, those are pretty close tows.

June Sprints would be nice for the 3rd but i have always wanted to do the IT/Grand Am weekend at Mid Ohio as well.

 

[adamjabaay]

is the kit all DOM steel BTW?

this shouldn't be an awful project, if the bends are anywhere near what we'd want

I've also got 1 5/8' DOM tubing here, that we can easily add to the cage with. Its what I added to my ITA cage ( was all 1.5'' ) with

 

[tom91ita]

It's DOM but for any "extra" bars I would likely go with 1.25"

 

[adamjabaay]

I oversized my stuff due to them being in impact zones...door bars...etc. wasn't too concerned with much else