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Bearcat said:
ok, if my car is on fire and no matter how big my door bars are, Im gonna be able to get outta that bitch realll quick.

You're fussin about bullshit. People that are gonna have a race car with double door bars probably arnt worried about having door panels.

Just stop trying to be a fussy whiner about silly shit.
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Weld shit to shit right? Some people care about door panels, I don't, it was just an observation chill. Getting in/out of door bars that have diagonals that start at the bottom of the bar and end behind your head are a pain in the ass to get in/out of but w/e that's just me i guess..


sidwayssilvia said:
nascar you gotta get out through i damn window+roll cage try doing that fast
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Check out a NASCAR cage or dirt track car door bars they don't use diagonal bars that go almost to the drivers head dude...They use ladder bars that are parallel so your head is away from steel pipe, you can fit seats better, and thats were you are going to see the most impact
 
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You're talking about two different things here.
Nascars go flipping through the air at like 180mph.
Also, in a NASCAR, the cage IS the chassis. They're tube chassis cars so the "cage" has to be insanely structural(sp?) in a full chassis drift car, the cage is just there to help add a bit of rigidity to the car that has already been engineered to withstand crashes and rollovers and stuff.

Who cares about getting in and out of a race car. A caged car shouldn't even be something you daily drive because it's so damn dangerous.
 
Slide~Or~Die said:
plus u an jackson look alike!
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i know right i should be able to walk right into jackson performance and act like chris, and do all the work myself with out them knowing its really me

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Bearcat said:
You're talking about two different things here.
Nascars go flipping through the air at like 180mph.
Also, in a NASCAR, the cage IS the chassis. They're tube chassis cars so the "cage" has to be insanely structural(sp?) in a full chassis drift car, the cage is just there to help add a bit of rigidity to the car that has already been engineered to withstand crashes and rollovers and stuff.

Who cares about getting in and out of a race car. A caged car shouldn't even be something you daily drive because it's so damn dangerous.
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how is it dangerous?
just wondering cuz its my dd
 
hitting head on cage... ask dr.d00ms and as for them fitting shitty yeah the 250 dollar cages they have do fit shitty, the drift one though is legit
 
yea that does sound dangerous but im all harnessed in when i drive,
where does the main support of the cage go ?
directly behind the drivers seat, or like back Right before the floor kicks up
 
BarefootDrifter said:
i know right i should be able to walk right into jackson performance and act like chris, and do all the work myself with out them knowing its really me

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how is it dangerous?
just wondering cuz its my dd
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U should try it you'll probally get away with it for a while as long asyou don't mind not gettin paid
 
Prove It said:
as for them fitting shitty yeah the 250 dollar cages they have do fit shitty, the drift one though is legit
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WHAT!!!! if u dont know what your looking at why even write something. its 250 for the non d.o.m tubing which clearly says "show" purpose only, an for another 250 u get the d.o.m tubing so 500. i got that cage n it doesnt fit bad at all, it all depends on where u cut an notch. let me ask u one more thing. do u have a cage have u put a cage in a car have u sat in a car with a cage?
 
Finkelstein said:
WHAT!!!! if u dont know what your looking at why even write something. its 250 for the non d.o.m tubing which clearly says "show" purpose only, an for another 250 u get the d.o.m tubing so 500. i got that cage n it doesnt fit bad at all, it all depends on where u cut an notch. let me ask u one more thing. do u have a cage have u put a cage in a car have u sat in a car with a cage?
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i would like to here this PROVE IT guy answer this lol...
 
What proveit was saying is that the other cages and the drift cage actually have a different design its not just a material change. The other cages are designed to leave full interior where the drift cage is actually wider and requires the removal of interior panels. So if you have seen te other ones in cars they do fit like shit.

As for dangers it's all just hitting your head on the bars in an accident wearing a harness all the time is a big help but does not completely eliminate the risk
 
Bearcat said:
You're talking about two different things here.
Nascars go flipping through the air at like 180mph.
Also, in a NASCAR, the cage IS the chassis. They're tube chassis cars so the "cage" has to be insanely structural(sp?) in a full chassis drift car, the cage is just there to help add a bit of rigidity to the car that has already been engineered to withstand crashes and rollovers and stuff.

Who cares about getting in and out of a race car. A caged car shouldn't even be something you daily drive because it's so damn dangerous.
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Not really dude, ya they might flip at those speeds but they also get spun out and have other cars going 180 T-bone them as-well. Im well aware there tube frame chassis, have you seen most of the new drift cars though? Full tube frame front ends and rear ends are becoming the norm now, the only thing stock is the cockpit and the strut towers, so there isn't that much difference.

If you get hit with a bar going towards your head then it's going to bend under force, when you get a side impact your head leans towards the crash. Bar next to head + hard side impact + bar folding = no good.

BarefootDrifter said:
yea that does sound dangerous but im all harnessed in when i drive,
where does the main support of the cage go ?
directly behind the drivers seat, or like back Right before the floor kicks up
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Main hoop goes behind the drivers seat and is away from the drivers head. Dd'ing with a cage isn't that dangerous if your cage isn't built like shit. All you have to do when you get the cage is get a vice, hole saw, drill, and wd-40; notch the tubing, make 2 parallel bars. And maby even later down the road make ladders. Viola, shitty door bars fixed with no extra expense required
 
I didn't say it wasn't dangerous. I said "it's not that dangerous if your cage isn't built like shit".
What would you hit your head on? Show me in this picture.
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Where that padding is. That's where you hit your head and with out a helmet that padding doesn't do much and that doesn't even look like true cage padding
 
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in the red...

when driving a caged car on the track, i hit my head on this bar a LOT with a helmet, which is no biggie, but if i wasnt wearing a helmet, i would have knocked myself out a couple times...

if you are going to daily with a cage, be sure that it is foam wrapped.

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Living4surf said:
Where that padding is. That's where you hit your head and with out a helmet that padding doesn't do much and that doesn't even look like true cage padding
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lookes like somebody wrapped one of these around the bar, lol

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