Drag Race Build my journey to a 9sec street car

[jakelandry]

I'm building a 10pt cage right now and after starting the project I am incredibly thankful I did not buy an off the shelf cage. I didn't realize before, but as you start rolling bars and seeing gaps here and there its easy to become anal and want everything perfect. After working countless hours to make mine fit as tight as possible, I would never buy a non-custom cage unless it was going in a gutted, drag-only car.

 

[OH91awd]

I'm building a 10pt cage right now and after starting the project I am incredibly thankful I did not buy an off the shelf cage. I didn't realize before, but as you start rolling bars and seeing gaps here and there its easy to become anal and want everything perfect. After working countless hours to make mine fit as tight as possible, I would never buy a non-custom cage unless it was going in a gutted, drag-only car.

if I have one built for the car it would be over $2000. not something I can just drop on this car. the cages that im looking at fit close enough to the interior that id be perfectly fine with. the other bars in the kits im looking at might need some massaging/ shortening but that's not going to be too bad. I just don't have access to a bender to build my own.

 

[jakelandry]

if I have one built for the car it would be over $2000. not something I can just drop on this car. the cages that im looking at fit close enough to the interior that id be perfectly fine with. the other bars in the kits im looking at might need some massaging/ shortening but that's not going to be too bad. I just don't have access to a bender to build my own.

I know the feeling as I am currently in a rent house between purchasing a new home and do not have the space or a place to do mine, but i'm making it work.

It really is not as expensive as you would expect though. You can get a tubing roller, which will make everything fit 10000 times better than a bender in our cars, from harbor freight and the parts to make it a high quality piece for less than 300 dollars total. I believe my 1.75 .120 wall dom was 82 dollars a stick and It takes about 5 of those. So you're looking at 800 plus a tubing notcher and angle grinder. I'm not suggesting you do it yourself, I just know from all the searching I've done on here there's really not much info on cage building so it may be an ill-informed subject.

 

[90'AWDTalonFroggy]

I know the feeling as I am currently in a rent house between purchasing a new home and do not have the space or a place to do mine, but i'm making it work.

It really is not as expensive as you would expect though. You can get a tubing roller, which will make everything fit 10000 times better than a bender in our cars, from harbor freight and the parts to make it a high quality piece for less than 300 dollars total. I believe my 1.75 .120 wall dom was 82 dollars a stick and It takes about 5 of those. So you're looking at 800 plus a tubing notcher and angle grinder. I'm not suggesting you do it yourself, I just know from all the searching I've done on here there's really not much info on cage building so it may be an ill-informed subject.

I'm right there with both of you when I get to the point of needing a cage i rather build it myself (I want to do as much as I possibly can myself). Don't want to spend the money on a shop customizing one for my car and don't necessarily want to buy one that fits really good but not exactly how i would like.

If we were able to have more info on this site as far as cage building goes that would be awesome. I read a lot of build threads where I think the most useful information generally is when it comes to pertaining to what I/someone would want to do with their own car. But the cages don't seem to get much love, unless I'm looking in the wrong spot. I think my favorite cage so far is @Mark L cage, it is a work of art.

@OH91awd love the steering wheel.

 

[OH91awd]

update 4/13

the cage has been ordered.

then got this email. we will see how it goes but thats a pretty quick turnaround to get this cage bent up. pretty stoked to get this project started.

 

[mikEclipse99]

NICE!!! Should be awesome man.

 

[OH91awd]

NICE!!! Should be awesome man.

i was kinda shocked when they said it would ship monday. ive got them doing the rear seat saver bars like goonie got. pretty pumped to get this thing started.

 

[mikEclipse99]

Awesome man! Are you installing it?

 

[OH91awd]

Awesome man! Are you installing it?

me and a buddy of mine are

 

[OH91awd]

another small update. bouth these from work yesterday to secure the bumper to the fender. going to be much better than the zip ties

 

[goonie90gsx]

another small update. bouth these from work yesterday to secure the bumper to the fender. going to be much better than the zip ties View attachment 539699

You can never have too many zip ties!!

 

[OH91awd]

You can never have too many zip ties!!

now i have to deal with two less

 

[OH91awd]

update : cage was supposed to be delivered today but me being stuck at work couldnt sign for it...

so sceduled a pickup at a fedex pickup location so i can get it after work (most likely tomorrow at this point). ill get some pics once i pick this thing up.

 

[goonie90gsx]

update : cage was supposed to be delivered today but me being stuck at work couldnt sign for it...

so sceduled a pickup at a fedex pickup location so i can get it after work (most likely tomorrow at this point). ill get some pics once i pick this thing up.

I was worried about that when I ordered mine but fedex didn’t make me sign for it thankfully.

 

[OH91awd]

I was worried about that when I ordered mine but fedex didn’t make me sign for it thankfully.

they wanted a signature with mine. but now delivery on the tracking says monday

 

[b00stedtalon2]

I used those latches too. I was able to remove the whole bumper in under 15 seconds... I rock them on my daily driver Evo too. Love those things!

 

[Vegas Smith]

I used those latches too. I was able to remove the whole bumper in under 15 seconds... I rock them on my daily driver Evo too. Love those things!

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Dear god, I need these so bad...

 

[Vegas Smith]

What size latch is that, though? Need to order some for mine.

 

[OH91awd]

I used those latches too. I was able to remove the whole bumper in under 15 seconds... I rock them on my daily driver Evo too. Love those things!

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i got the idea from you actually

 

[OH91awd]

What size latch is that, though? Need to order some for mine.

these are the quik latch minis. 658-QL-25-S1 this is the pn through jegs of what i got

 

[mikEclipse99]

I used those latches too. I was able to remove the whole bumper in under 15 seconds... I rock them on my daily driver Evo too. Love those things!

I use these too! I love them. 15 seconds to remove the bumper is legitimately true haha!

 

[b00stedtalon2]

I thought about making kits for the 1g guys since they do require custom brackets. I no longer own my 1g so that won't be happening anymore

 

[OH91awd]

I thought about making kits for the 1g guys since they do require custom brackets. I no longer own my 1g so that won't be happening anymore

should still make them though ive got the brackets partially made up for mine. havent had much time to mess with them any though.

 

[OH91awd]

and we have cage!

picking it up from the local fedex pickup location (walgreens )

glad i went with a chromoly cage. super light

ready to get this thing installed already. still got a few things to buy to go along with this.

 

[DsmDolney]

Im interested in how you are making the brackets for the quick release. I plan on doing the same thing also