Thread: how hard to install cage?

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We've got one sitting on the garage floor, ready to install in my one Son's Capri, and it is essentially just a bunch of tubing and some flat floor plates. Not a lot came in the way of instructions, so you have to pretty much engineer each one to the car you are doing.

There are some very specific regulations about how to mount them (so far from the drivers head, the back bar has to intersect so far down, the door brace has to go so far between the drivers shoulder and floor, etc. And the welding has to be first rate. They also specify that if you have a subframed car you can mount to the body, but on a full framed car you have to go right to the frame.

We are still researching what we need to do to make his legal, and I'll bet Techinspector can quote us chapter and verse on what you need to do.

By the way, these are a great value. We have a tubing bender, so initially we thought we would just buy the correct tubing and bend up our own. After doing the math, we would have had more money in just raw tubing than they get for the prebent setup.


Don

oh yeah man im always pricin raw materials lol. hopefully tech will hop in on this one that guys unreal. and i know the weld cant be dressed up but say i mess it up while im installing it can i just grind the weld off and re do it?