Roll Cage, Going to do it this spring Options

[jcbass7]

So my pal (fellow Coastie) was showing me some pictures from home(Washington state) and i stumbled upon pics of his jeep. well he explained to me that the 5 pt. roll cage on his jeep, he made by himself, bending welding etc. I was extremely impressed by his work and we got talking about it and we are going to put in a cage in my car. Something similiar to Tufy's but i am not totally sure of what i want in the end. Definatly want to stiffen up the REAR of the hatch. My coupe was a lot less flexible in the back and i am looking forward to some serious support back there. i want to keep the cage somewhat tame though, as i want to build custom fiberglass enclosures after i have the cage installed.

The plan is to build something like this:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...em=330074638465

i also want it to be removable, with little to no permanent welds into the car. but if we can't avoid it then oh well

any one have any comments, questions, concerns?


EDIT: ps this is not incase i roll over, its purely for chasis rigidity and a little bit athstetics

This post has been edited by jcbass7: Jan 16, 2007 - 10:24 PM

[jcbass7]

I have shocks and struts going in this weekend and sway bars are on their way. I dont want to go spend 250 on a j-speed rear three point to add a little rigidity. what if i built a cage that didn't really come in front of the driver? I will be putting in a set of nice seats (sparco, recaro etc.) and i need a bar directly behind them to have the seat belt harness attach to. That is a big part of why i want to do this.

I still want to push the pro's and cons.

lets just focus on the rear for now then. what if i built that cage but stopped it behind the seats?

Also I have no need for storage space, and i am only allowed to use this car on weekends anyway.. and thats how it will be until i graduate from the academy.. This is a daily driver but not in the same sense.
Besides, when i hit my junior year at the Academy we get a low interest (less than 1%) loan for 30k. I will use that to buy my daily driver. But i always plan on keeping this as a fun car so later on in life it won't need to be practical at all if i have something else to drive