Just wondering who is riding around in a caged coupe? The more power I add to mine the more I want a cage esp since its open wheeled. Im just trying to decide if I am gonna go main hoop through the body to the ch***is with a harness bar and "gusset bars" from the sides to the center or do a halo and four point it...door bars are def out of the Question though..im a little fluffy! hahaha I know I chould choose saftey over looks...but dont want to kill the inside with too many bars either... Lets see those cage setups!
Our rides are similar and I too have been pondering this same question for the same reason. Any takers??? Pics???
No one?!?!? @plowboy...I wish they were,that would mean mine would be channeled too!!! That means I would have to be shorter though! lol GJ, thanks I have been in off topic cars with them,I though about 86'ing them all together in this though.
Yah I really didn't need to channel it-in fact lately I'm really digging the UNchannelled look-oh well hind sight is 20/20! Yours really looks ***s-but I am seriously thinking of a roll bar.
I don't have a coupe, I have a roadster and even I have been considering some added safety features. Not a cage or roll bar, but building a perimeter fence of sorts just below the belt line. It would be useless if the car were to roll, but might provide some additional protection from side on collisions. I remember the story and photos on that thread last year or the year before where a car hit a roadster in the door and came right into the ****pit. Scary ****.
Try a search for Hidden Agenda nice coupe with a cage. I have a tudor sedan with a cage and it is getting tight inside. not a lot of room
PB13, I still think the channel looks way better.. like i said though,im a bit too fluffy and tall for it! haha
The thing I like most about non-channelled is the depth it gives the car. In my opinion that is the one area Model A's suffer. From the belt line down is sort of thin looking at times when it is channelled. Now I have to find seats that sit REALLY low in the ****, or else looking out the front window kinda ****s!! My Caravan seat although low still sits too high.
I have put a lot of thought into the same question. One of my few answers is to possibly make a lighter and not SPEC cage with smaller diameter tubing. 1 1/4" stuff? Just build in a little bit more without making a race car out of something it kinda wants to be? I know my car top and most all of the verticle structure won't take a roll while heading down the road at traffic speed. A side hit will come in to the frame rail area and/or bend it too. Beer cans have structure and they crush with ease when their original design is compromised. Chevettes, ******s, Omnis, had a pull tab on top. When it is empty, it is done, recycle. The bodies of those cars had a little bit more structural integrity than my 1929 Model A.
////Beer cans have structure and they crush with ease when their original design is compromised. Chevettes, ******s, Omnis, had a pull tab on top. When it is empty, it is done, recycle.//// Laughing so hard I spit-shined my keyboard, Patrick! (beer shine) That was a great one! I'm a little concerned with my '27 Highboy T Tub for that very reason. When they get "T-Boned", they do crumple. I'm building some steel structure in, but not like Certed roll cage...
hahaha thanks for going further in my mind with I am dead as a door nail if I get hit! hahahahaha Cage of some sort here I come! lol
I have been thinking about building my next model a with a full cage like I do in drag cars, my plan it to cut the whole car and widen the body Atleast 3". That's alot of work, but for what I'm doing it's not out of the question, and it allows room for the extra material
I'm a big dude, 6'3 at 250 pounds, and I put a 4 point cage in an unchannelled Model A Coupe with 4" chop and I was miserable. It also wouldn't p*** NHRA tech rules regarding helmet to rollbar clearance. Had I rolled the car my watermelon would have exploded from hitting the rollbar. I cut the damn thing out. I'd rather die than be that cramped and unhappy driving my car. I figured it's a hot rod, and if you want to be safe, get a Saturn and a pair of *******. Short little dude's opinions may vary from mine, though.
I've been looking for anything with a cage. Here are a sh!tload of pictures of mine. I couldn't find pictures of a full cage to fit a p***anger in a roadster, so i decided to build one the way i liked. My gl*** 33 seems much bigger inside than a model a though. So far w/o doorbars i doesn't seem like it will affect comfort at all. Once they go in we'll see. I have pretty wide bucket seats from a newer pickup.
"I figured it's a hot rod, and if you want to be safe, get a Saturn and a pair of *******." NICE! hahahaha thanks for all of the pictures guys.... leaning towards a simple four point with a halo....
Heres mine, not the safest thing, but it works and looks period for the car. Its a 3 point all tied in with 6"x6" plates,has gusset bars on the bottom and has a shoulder cross bar for my harness. Has me quite comfortable with room and I'm 240lbs and regularly have my 260 lbs buddy with me!
Look up RH Race Cars in Kelowna , B.C. They did Brent Harris's chopped '33 Willys Pro Mod coupe ,the pictures will give you some good ideas. I have seen the car up close and it is tight but still workable Funny car cage and all. Rob
Tracks will let most 15 sec and slower cars run a p***enger.....I'm about 4 seconds too fast for that....LOL
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