by "ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com" (ita97)
Published 11/27/2017 at 13:47
by "ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com" (ita97)
Published 11/27/2017 at 13:47
Tags: Let there be racecars
STARS: 4
I got my seat back from the upholstery shop with a new cover made for it. Combined with my previous widening of the seat a bit via a board and the F150's jack to accommodate my 32 year-old girth instead of my 17 year-old girth, it should be ready to go.
"Captain of the Enterprise" (justanotherdayinparadise)
11/27/2017 at 14:43, STARS: 0
Looks great!
"TheTurbochargedSquirrel" (thatsquirrel)
11/27/2017 at 15:03, STARS: 0
I can’t come up with any justification for why but the door bars being separate with an additional piece in the middle weirds me out. It just doesn’t look right
"ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com" (ita97)
11/27/2017 at 15:57, STARS: 0
The big 2007 GCR rule changes for roll cages required door bars to extend into the door cavity to provide better driver protection. The two accepted ways to do this per the GCR are an X arrangement (with the bars linked) as mine shows in the picture or a “Nascar” style set up with parallel upper and lower bars (linked vertically), with both setups required to extend into the door cavity.
My cage was originally built prior to this rule and only had one door bar (the inner one) on each side. Gutting the doors and adding the outer bar in an X setup was the cheapest and easiest way to retrofit my cage when the 2007 rules came into force.
My original idea as a 17 year-old was to drive the car on the street and race it, so the cage was actually built to allow pretty much full functionality of the car with most of the interior in place. As such, many aspects of the cage look a bit odd as a gutted car. The reality of actually driving a racecar on the street set in quickly, and even my 17 year-old self only continued to drive it for a couple of months before buying a second car to drive on the street.
"TheTurbochargedSquirrel" (thatsquirrel)
11/27/2017 at 17:24, STARS: 0
None of the cars I have been in have had the cage protruding into the doors so it looks rather odd to me.
"ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com" (ita97)
11/27/2017 at 17:55, STARS: 0
Eh, different rules for different sanctioning bodies. For IT cars in SCCA it was optional until 2007. Many folks still did it before then as it let you gut the doors. The weight advantage from gutting the doors usually far outweighed the weight of the extra bar.
Nascar bars as commonly done miatas:
