Weight Differences?

[boofis]

Ohhhh, thats so much weight gone. Risk of death or weight LOL....

Thanks

Troy

[demuire]

I have cage, me no worry :P

[Super Jamie]

i wouldnt worry anyway. i owned a ke30 that got t-boned into the drivers' side door. didn't even break the glass. banana'ed the chassis tho, much like my ke25 was

[boofis]

Youd pin your life on losing 10kg in your car?

 

maybe for rally where you need to be at a minimum weight but then you have a rollcage.

 

But seriously...

Like Jamie said, what happens if you get T-boned in a ke30. You'd pin your life on a 30 over a 50!

Thanks

Troy

[Felix]

i've seen a couple of ke35/55 coupes in the wreckers that had been T-boned, both on passenger side. due to the pillarless design (no B pillar), the front door and rear (where their normally is a door) had folded over the front and rear passenger seats. intrusion bars would be of no value.

 

B pillars are good.

Edited September 12, 2005 by Felix

[ancullen]

My soon-to-be father-in-law says he can get his hands on a pipe bender, so when I've got the money for the metal, we might be building our own rollcage. And none of this half-arsed shit either. I'll probably end up doubling the weight of the car, but I know I'll be safe. Then I'll get myself a full set of KE30 sedan doors and lose 40kgs off the weight of the car and still not have to worry about being slammed into the passenger seat. Well hopefully not anyway.

[Super Jamie]

if you have a cams license, you get the competitor handbook, in which there are actually decent guidelines for building your own cams approved cage

 

if you use the right metal, and your welds are good enough, i'd fancy you might even be able to get a homebuilt cage cams approved. you'd have to be REALLY good tho

[demuire]

You can buy the book even if you don't have a licence.

[ancullen]

I was under the impression that if you were building your own cage all you had to do was sign a document stating that you wouldn't hold anyone responsible should you crash and the cage fails. This was told to me by someone who is usually the race director for meets at Hidden Valley and is Assistant Clerk of the Course during the V8's. I would hope he knows the rules. Of course, having some guidelines to show us how to build a cage would be handy. I'll have to borrow one of his CAMS handbooks.

[demuire]

No, to race in a CAMS approved event with a cage, you need to have a CAMS approved cage, as far as I know. And if you're going to put a cage in the car, get it log booked too, because the regs change all the time and you don't want to end up with a cage that no longer fits current requirements...

[ancullen]

Looks like I'll be reading the CAMS handbook quite closely then.

[demuire]

They have lots of pretty diagrams too.

[ancullen]

Cool, I like pretty diagrams. Did you build your own cage or buy one? Approximately what sort of cost am I looking at? I've tried Google-ing for cage manufacturers, but haven't had much luck, but I may be using the wrong search term.

[demuire]

I don't trust my welding enough, I paid someone to build mine. I think it was about a grand. Mine is very very very basic though, and I did all the stripping, putting back together, and painting. Most places will charge you upwards of $1500 for a basic 6 point.

[ancullen]

Alley's Dad knows what he's doing when he's welding, but we can always call on his niece's boyfriend if we need assistance as he is a welder by trade (and I believe he can even TIG weld, but not CIG weld, or maybe that's the other way around).