Good reason to have a proper roll cage!

[MikeFitz]

I thought I'd throw up a few pics of the footwell of the Sileighty, when I was taking out the loom I saw how bad it actually was.
My cage was a Kazama Auto seven point bolt in, around dash type, and it actually came out of this ok, but if there was a proper weld in cage attached to the chassis out further this would not have been as dangerous. Just a bit of food for thought!

[Stonie]

Bolt-in bullshit,,,,,, it really goes to show how easy you could be badly hurt because of a bad cage!!

[S14a johno]

Bolt-in bullshit,,,,,, it really goes to show how easy you could be badly hurt because of a bad cage!!

so in my postion, as a road car .......... a bolt in or weld in?
like in a cause of a bolt in, where it bolted to the floor
if you put stronger and bigger plates to blot into, would that not strenghtn the cage
at the floor becasue the cross sectionaly area is stronger?

[Stonie]

so in my postion, as a road car .......... a bolt in or weld in?
like in a cause of a bolt in, where it bolted to the floor
if you put stronger and bigger plates to blot into, would that not strenghtn the cage
at the floor becasue the cross sectionaly area is stronger?

That's not the problem johno, the plates could be a foot square but that won't help the position of the a pillar bar in the dash dodger cage, any sort of downward impact and it will bend in shit, and it also has the problem that mike is showing that the bar is too far back from your feet area which is quite dangerous!! And another problem is if you get a high side impact say on the pillar above your head, the whole cage will fold which ever way the impact is,,!! Where a proper weld in triangulated cage will not have any of these problems!!

[git]

That's not the problem johno, the plates could be a foot square but that won't help the position of the a pillar bar in the dash dodger cage, any sort of downward impact and it will bend in shit, and it also has the problem that mike is showing that the bar is too far back from your feet area which is quite dangerous!! And another problem is if you get a high side impact say on the pillar above your head, the whole cage will fold which ever way the impact is,,!! Where a proper weld in triangulated cage will not have any of these problems!!

johno dont mind em hasnt a clue wat hes talkin bou

[Chuck_g]

Is that a little dog hiding in the wreckage?

[tweek]

Is that a little dog hiding in the wreckage?

Yeah what the hell is that thing with the red hat with 3dots

[S14a johno]

That's not the problem johno, the plates could be a foot square but that won't help the position of the a pillar bar in the dash dodger cage, any sort of downward impact and it will bend in shit, and it also has the problem that mike is showing that the bar is too far back from your feet area which is quite dangerous!! And another problem is if you get a high side impact say on the pillar above your head, the whole cage will fold which ever way the impact is,,!! Where a proper weld in triangulated cage will not have any of these problems!!

so in other words say the fuck away from dash doggers and bolt in's
i wouldnt have thought bolt in were tat dangous do breaden, like the
dash doggers are letal as mike shown above
but even throw the dash bolt in? that have the same problem
as mike show above......


''johno dont mind em hasnt a clue wat hes talkin bout ''

sure he tryed getn himself knock down in stonies sunday
kev tryed to set him on fire as well