Just curious of how you guys welded your main hoops in your crx's and if you had any problems with the seats moving back etc.

pics would be great!

thanks

 

still looking

 

I know for a fact that you will not be able to recline the seat far.

 

bump

 

If you position the main hoop where it is supposed to be, you will not be able to slide the seats all the way back. This shouldn't be a problem, since nobody I know of has legs long enough to reach the pedals with the seats slid all the way back, plus headroom is restricted back there because of the curvature of the roof (at least with the sunroof in an Si). The slider range is still more than adequate with the bar/cage in place.

I also don't recommend modifying the harness bar to allow the seats to recline back further, because that can in some cases allow your head to move back far enough to contact the top of the main hoop in a collision. This is especially an issue in a street driven car with no helmet. Rememper to always use the proper SFI padding.

My bar before it was painted and padded:

 

anybody got pics of a role cage with the rear pannels in a crx?

 

 

That is probably the most poorly thought out and executed design that I have ever seen.

 

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thats pretty much what i thought when i first saw it. its been posted before.

 

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I would agree too who would cert that?

Is it a show car maybe?

 

its rhd. shrug.

 

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Your just mad your mail man doesn't ball like that

 

What about this?

 

 

The rear supports for the main hoop should go directly to the chassis, not to the strut tower brace.

 

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agreed. it makes me shutter to think what could happen... next time i'm teching cars at the track i'll have to take a pic of this mustang... i NEVER like passing the guy... its AWEFUL

 

And they need plates! Looks like the plates on the floor mounts are to small.

 

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Nice catch, I didn't even notice - the strut tower brace has no mounting plates at all.

 

yes, i know all of these things. i was just showing the cross bar for the main hoop.

 

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What about this?</TD></TR></TABLE>

looks like a decent drag cage. but adding a diagonal in the main hoop would do wonders for extra roll over protection.


as for the rear arms going straight back and attached to the bar between the shock towers, as opposed to directly to the shock towers, i think its clear that its going to be stronger if you attached it directly to the shock tower, but i dont think its necessarily completely unsafe. however technically, its specifically spelled out in road racing rules that this type of attachment is not allowed.

just an opinion. who cares what i think.

 

Also that cage wasn't built to meet any specific guidelines or rules. It's the first cage/roll bar I ever built, I've learned a lot since then.

 

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my seat is all the way back and i reach perfect

 

My bar was designed so that the driver's seat has the full range of movement plus a good amount of reclinability (if the stock seat is in). Here is a pic:



The bar is fully CACC and/or SCCA legal. Rear base plates are welded to the frame rails and the stays are also welded to the rear shock towers.

 

I like this thread it has been informative

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by solorex &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">My bar was designed so that the driver's seat has the full range of movement plus a good amount of reclinability (if the stock seat is in). Here is a pic:



The bar is fully CACC and/or SCCA legal. Rear base plates are welded to the frame rails and the stays are also welded to the rear shock towers.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Now thats nice.