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Old Jun 12, 2007 | 11:34 AM
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Love My New Roll Cage!

If anyone is looking for a roll bar or cage, I just finished the install of mine, and the fit is amazing. I got it from S&W Race Cars, and they were great. I would highly reccomend them. My 10-point was only $249. I couldn't buy the material for that!
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Old Jun 12, 2007 | 12:40 PM
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pics?

I assume that it's a bolt in?

also, what car did it go in?
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Old Jun 12, 2007 | 12:52 PM
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Pics coming as soon as the paint is done.
Weld in, the bolt in won't pass tech.
into my 88 RX-7
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Old Jun 17, 2007 | 05:52 PM
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Is this cage a universal kit or specifically for the fc. Pics soon I hope. Real heavy? How easy was the weldin?
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Old Jun 17, 2007 | 06:24 PM
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Originally Posted by JACKEL142
Pics coming as soon as the paint is done.
Weld in, the bolt in won't pass tech.
into my 88 RX-7
Is this a track car or race car, if so what class?
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Old Jun 17, 2007 | 08:42 PM
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Unless you left a "1" off the front of the price I find it really hard to believe you got DOM tubing.
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Old Jun 17, 2007 | 09:09 PM
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A proper bolt in cage is legal in the improved touring classes of the SCCA.
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Old Jun 17, 2007 | 09:25 PM
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^True but not in any class that would allow a 10pt cage and it would still have to be DOM or seamless NOT ERW tubing. It might be for drag racing, I don't know if they still allow ERW, I do know they have a minimum thickness even in the middle of a bend.

I just ordered 6 lengths of 1 3/4" .095 wall DOM(twenty foot randoms) and the stuff still costs me about $5 a foot. Unless this company owns a steel mill and has the stuff bent for them in Sri Lanka by Buddhist monks you aren't getting a 10pt cage made out of DOM for $249
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Old Jun 17, 2007 | 09:26 PM
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It's a 10 point cage so it most likely is one of the ERW drag cages. 8 points is the max for IT
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Old Jun 18, 2007 | 01:07 AM
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Easy way to tell is see what the material spec sheet says the tubing thickness, .134" is erw. All the kits I have seen from them is erw. If he like it, great. Show pics
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