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]

EDIT: Ok here are a couple more things just bouncing around in my head. I really can only drive this car until July second of this year and then it won't really get driven much until 2010-2011. Granted inbetween i may drive it some but will rarely have chances so it will most definatly be off the road.

That gives me another couple months where i am still only driving weekends (can't leave base during the week).

I am not to sure what my ultimate plans are for the car but i want it to be a toy that i will have later in life since i have no plans on letting her go. I am alll about the street legal beast that is sso impractical its stupid. like a roll cage So before long this car is going to be second to some daily driver and might not matter too much.. on getting me places with all my gear etc. It will become more of a fun car..

I think i need to find an outlet for power... I'm not a drag guy.. and I would LOVE to rally, but i don't want to build a beautiful car in the end and then destroy it in the dirt. I want to keep the car on the street and i want it to be something thats not easy to compete with in that aspect. maybe autocross is my answer??


but back to the roll cage: Itchy, whats one of those civic ones cost?

What about building one like this style, where it REALLY focuses on the back
ROLL CAGE