Nice!
BTW, has anyone had experience with the OMP or Sparco rollcages? They look nice. Here, there is this brand called Autopower. Their cage mounts to the flooboard .
I've seen some real nice fabbed ones on alfapower.nu. I wish they could just send me all the bends, I can have it welded up here.
My car only has a custom bolt on rear rollbar. Maybe if I am serious about racing I'll add the front section.
BTW Dennis, did you see the video of "Marc7eleven" on youtube? It was at Spa, not sure if this was the same event that you went to. Sounds like a well built TS.
BTW, has anyone had experience with the OMP or Sparco rollcages? They look nice. Here, there is this brand called Autopower. Their cage mounts to the flooboard .
I've seen some real nice fabbed ones on alfapower.nu. I wish they could just send me all the bends, I can have it welded up here.
My car only has a custom bolt on rear rollbar. Maybe if I am serious about racing I'll add the front section.
BTW Dennis, did you see the video of "Marc7eleven" on youtube? It was at Spa, not sure if this was the same event that you went to. Sounds like a well built TS.
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I thought that was the swaybar (because I couldn't see the steering column)Mats wrote:It's in front of the engine, clearly visible in the last pic.
Edit: Looked again and saw the steering column (and rack)
That was the same event (Marc won the races in our class). Marc was in the same team as me. He has a really great carb engine with about 200 hp and 250 nm of torque. Great modified suspension on that car. The package works great and Marc really drives well.Zamani wrote:BTW Dennis, did you see the video of "Marc7eleven" on youtube? It was at Spa, not sure if this was the same event that you went to. Sounds like a well built TS.
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Cage in various stages of completion...
Also, stitch-welding details, corners before gussets, engine-bay reinforcements (similar to Jes' car), "NASCAR-style" door relieves (for the fat-guy) and the upper-shock mount strengthening (for coil-overs and no torsion-bars...)
Also, stitch-welding details, corners before gussets, engine-bay reinforcements (similar to Jes' car), "NASCAR-style" door relieves (for the fat-guy) and the upper-shock mount strengthening (for coil-overs and no torsion-bars...)
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Ah John,I see you had to kink the cage at the doors so your fat ass will fit...
Nice project bud..Are you not impatient to get her done?
Nice project bud..Are you not impatient to get her done?
French cars are shit and shit expensive to service and bloody awful and unreliable and expensive and friends don't let friends drive french cars and you wait years for parts.
Not trying to bash your obvious serious project or anything but why did you bend/kink the pipes in the door? Looks like it will make the bars "softer" in an impact and the mechanics involved will try to bend the pipes inboard hingeing around the main hoop and push that part that goes next to the B-pillar int yuor torso/pelvic area. Not nice.
I know they all do it in CRASCHCAR ( ) but I have never seen it in any other series (or country). It would not pass a tech inspection here.
I know they all do it in CRASCHCAR ( ) but I have never seen it in any other series (or country). It would not pass a tech inspection here.
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A comment on the stitch welding and cage.
To do it right you need to do > 50% welding. And not only on places were forces are introduced! But along the path the forces take into the chassis.
The same route I would take with building a cage (steel in the path off the forces).
Primary: A cage is there to ensure your own safety.
But a well designed cage has also the steel in the places where you add stiffness to your chassis and still ads a minimum of weight.
In the real world everything is a compromise so it is not that simple.
But just adding sturdy tubes doesn't help if they are added to the chassis on a thin membrane or act as a hinge.
To do it right you need to do > 50% welding. And not only on places were forces are introduced! But along the path the forces take into the chassis.
The same route I would take with building a cage (steel in the path off the forces).
Primary: A cage is there to ensure your own safety.
But a well designed cage has also the steel in the places where you add stiffness to your chassis and still ads a minimum of weight.
In the real world everything is a compromise so it is not that simple.
But just adding sturdy tubes doesn't help if they are added to the chassis on a thin membrane or act as a hinge.
Banned.. ? Daily donky.. ==> BMW 325d
E36M3 (3.0) Ringtool ==> definitely BANNED!
AR 75 TS Ringtool '90, AR Spider 2000 veloce '79
E36M3 (3.0) Ringtool ==> definitely BANNED!
AR 75 TS Ringtool '90, AR Spider 2000 veloce '79