Jeremy Foley Crash cage pics

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEUrEPPABbY

http://forums.evolutionm.net/motor-s...-build-29.html

 

Wow!

 

Everything looks like it made it out "OK" but the door bars seem a bit of a worry. Glad to hear they were OK after that tumble.

On a side note - the wheel broke. Must be a Rota. Sorry. Had to.

 

he's luck to be alive regardless of what the cage looks like, the g-forces going through his head and neck during that accident were massive.

gotta give it up for whoever fabricated that cage... and how strong enkei wheels are lol

 

nice wonder who's paying for those repairs

 

something tells me this isn't a repair situation

 

Damn!

 

Glad to hear they made it out ok. cage held together.

 

Thats properly done cage, The structure is still there and I see no breaks throughout the whole tumble. The only part they messed up was not adding reinforcement with gusset plates to the Bpillar. That thing couldve killed the passenger

But yea, car looks repairable lol

 

I was a little surprised to see no gusseting on the b-pillar... but if you look in the video at the inital impact on that part of the car, it was doubtful that even gusseting would've helped. Most of the vehicle's momentum and force at impact went through that one spot, then it rolled and rolled, beating that spot even more, and once it hit the last boulder even move force went through that same point.

Overall I would be thanking my cage builder and buying him a beer, plus kissing his ***. I've seen several situations where sub-par cage construction caused failures and injuries and the impacts weren't even a fraction of launching a car off the side of a mountain

 

That's evodynamics personal shop car that kevind has been working on for past couple yrs, jeremy was just the driver I believe and Kevin and his welder were the ones who built that cage.! My car is up at his shop right getting some work done. Saw the car in person last week and I can't believe what it looks like right one.

 

holy crap........

 

Thumbs up to that cage builder!

 

Not to be the por stirrer but over in the RR/AC forum, people seem to be a little more hesitant to praise the cage design:

https://honda-tech.com/forums/road-racing-autocross-time-attack-19/pikes-peak-crash-3080298/

 

wow, thats scary

 

dam crazy

 

WOW!

 

I know, but that car rolled like 14 times off the road downhill into boulders at who knows what speed. How much more is a cage supposed to withhold without any damage? Notice that the oem body panels where ripped off, probably because the chassis was twisting so bad it ripped the assembly welds and body panels apart. who knows how much torsional flex the cage was put through. I think I served it's purpose.

 

I definitely understand what you mean. The car may have rolled 14 times but contacted the ground far fewer times than that. Also, can anyone verify if the cage was made from aluminum?

 

It's not aluminum , you can see the whole car build here
http://forums.evolutionm.net/motor-s...k-build-3.html

 

Sorry about that, I was thinking about Monster Tajimas car.

 

I have built a complete ssca f production lotus chassis from scratch (not design or engineering) but had imput on placement (within rules) and i have to say that i do some things that could have been done diff or added to help that incase situation that did happen. But as a whole i would give 98% to builder/ welder of the cage. It did with stand multi times roll, major impacts, and what have you. Over all i think cage held up very well looking at what it went thru.

Glad to hear driver is ok

 

thats why if you race dont skimp on a badass cage built by someone who knows what there doing...


this pic is a big scary...

 

the on car footage... apparently go pros are tougher than cars.

http://www.youtube.com/embed/VGbiEutz4Ao

http://www.youtube.com/embed/QDPKu4ydWLc

 

^HOOOOLLLYYY ****