There seems to be a continued need to put people in contact with cage builders in various regions throughout the country. I figure it might be helpful if people could post information in a single thread about reputable builders who are familiar with the more popular (SCCA, NASA/HC, etc) road racing organization rules who do quality work. Post your region as well as any contact info you may have. I hope this becomes a useful resource. I'll post some AZ info later when I get the actual contact info.

 

Chris Schimmel

Competition Cages
522 East Drive
Hillsborough, NC 27278
919-644-1334

stikytarr@mindspring.com

http://www.competitioncages.com/

If you're in the Triangle, call him.

Diane

 

Russ Nyberg @ Race Tech Fabrication

503-254-6706

http://www.racetechfab.com

Portland Oregon

The best prices and the best cages.

 

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Competition Cages
522 East Drive
Hillsborough, NC 27278
919-644-1334

stikytarr@mindspring.com

http://www.competitioncages.com/

If you're in the Triangle, call him.

Diane</TD></TR></TABLE>

I'll second this. Chris was very easy to deal with and provides a high-quality product at a reasonable price.

 

Walt Puckett
Delta Group Motorsports
Shelby, NC

On Honda-tech, he's "Metalworker". I wouldn't go anywhere else!

 

Mitch Piper

Piper Motorsport
8393 Euclid Avenue, Unit Q
Manassas, VA 20111
(703)530-0353

http://www.pipermotorsports.com/

 

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Piper Motorsport
8393 Euclid Avenue, Unit Q
Manassas, VA 20111
(703)530-0353

http://www.pipermotorsports.com/</TD></TR></TABLE>

I'll second that... he did great quality work on my car...

 

Third vote of confidence for Chris S. I wasn't the simplest customer to deal with and he did a great job.



Kirk

 

for ontario there is Ron O'brien from O'brien motorsports...4168031284
(not sure about the shop address but he is located in the toronto area near the airport)

(shop is super busy all year round. he built my roll bar. and did the all the sentra series cars for last years sentra series in Ontario and all the honda's for the honda/michelin series in Ontario/Quebec

 

Nico Prelogar
KC Raceware
816.257.7305

Kansas City Area

 

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Delta Group Motorsports
Shelby, NC</TD></TR></TABLE>

Add ..

Kirk Racing in AL
Robinson Racing in GA

I have seen first hand the work of all 3. They are all top notch.

Blake, bamcrxgp, builds a nice cage as well.

 

Chris Howard
101 Linden Street
Holliston, MA 01746
(508) 429-6717
jhdhoward3@aol.com

Not the best pic, but you get the idea:

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Roadracejunkie &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">This is just an fyi for those of you in Pittsburgh, Detroit, Columbus, W.Va. or Ky.

Alot of the emails I have been receiving ask me what I do at my shop, so I thought I would put up a short list of services and let people know our exact location.

I hope this accomplishes a couple things:
1) let's racers know where I am located
2)saves me some time from common email questions.

I hope this is not looked upon as advertising, that is not my intention. It seems there are alot of people who are close to me geographicly but don't know I exist for some reason.

I am located in Medina, Ohio. Which is 30 miles south of Cleveland and 20 minutes west of Akron.

Most of my customers are comming to me for custom roll cages. (any make/model)

As for the Honda/Acura services, I cover everything but street/show bling.
This includes: I.T. / HC engines, LSD's (Quaife), FDR's (ring and pinions),
plus all the normal stuff: Hawk pads, Rota Wheels, brake lines, suspensions, seats, window nets, brake ducts and any custom engineering (guage pods, etc.)
Windshields (glass), motor swaps (we are an importer), custom race exhausts.
Plus we provide trackside race support, and corner weighting plus dyno tunning on a dynojet 248C.

I hate to post for myself, it feels all wrong, but the emails I get just take up so much time and guys are always asking the same questions, my website is being redesigned at the current moment, otherwise I would post a link for this information.

I opened Street N Track in 1999 after crewing in I.T. from 95-99. I won scca regional championships in ITA in 95,96, & 97 with 2 different drivers, plus the ARRC title in ITA in 1996. All the titles were won in a CRX Si. (There has been some question as to my background.) I won my 2003 championship in H4 in a crx as well.

I hope this clears up some speculation and allows a few of you to know that there is a dealer in NE Ohio that can help you.

A list of customers is available for your reference upon request.</TD></TR></TABLE>

VOUCH PAGE https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=933177

 

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Delta Group Motorsports
Shelby, NC

On Honda-tech, he's "Metalworker". I wouldn't go anywhere else!</TD></TR></TABLE>


http://www.deltagroupmotorsports.com/

Walt Puckett has over 15 years of professional as well as amateur racing experience both from behind the wheel and in building racecars. His shop has built the roll cages for many successful cars, including WC Touring Proteges, production cars and many of the cages found in the fastest IT cars around the southeast. He has built the cage in our old CRX and his quality of work was so good that we went back to him again without giving it a second thought so he can put together our new car. See pics here: http://groups.msn.com/Alexsrac...age=1 He has always made our trips from Atlanta to his shop in NC more than worth it every time. Super nice guy. Definitely can't go wrong with Walt.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by keithv &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Chris Howard
101 Linden Street
Holliston, MA 01746
(508) 429-6717
jhdhoward3@aol.com

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I def recommend Chris for people in the northeast, he did an awesome job on my cage and was very quick and for a great price. He has done several SCCA cars and I think he does the cages for Turner Motorsports as well.

 

I am going to plug myself. I think I am reputable ...

http://www.gotoracing.com

 

Kirk Racing in Birmingham, AL did my cage and I'm well pleased with the results.

Competition Cages in Hillsborough, as others have mentioned, does great work and is reasonably priced. Krause and England (http://www.krauseandengland.com/) is here in Raleigh as well and does some top quality work.

Dear Reader, whoever you end up getting your cage or rollbar done by, make SURE they know what they're doing and make DAMN SURE they know what's legal and what isn't. Hate to see people spend $2K+ on a custom cage only to find that it's illegal as hell.

 

A second for Chris Stiffler at Street-N-Track Autosports in Medina, OH. For anyone in the CenDiv, NEDiv, and Midwest Honda Challenge area, he is the guy to call for your cage work. Top quality, meets deadlines and exceeds customer expectations. And he has a 2003 MWHC Championship to add to his resume.
Sam

 

Walt Puckett (metalworker)
Delta Group Motorsports

I have a Delta Group custom rollbar in my 944S that I absolutely love and am in process of getting a tremendous looking CRX cage right now from Walt. So stupidly stoked about this, I think I should seriously enter it into a car show before its first race cause I am sure its the only time the outside will look perfect. I have seen a sample of Walt's cage-work (VW Golf IIRC) after three sukaharas through the infield at Kershaw and despite an old design, it was absolutely in tact and the driver was ok (and IIRC commisioned Delta Group for the next car).

On a similar note, I balled up ole CRX v.1 with a Blake Merideth (bamcrxgp) cage in it and gotta thank Blake huge for the great job he did on HIS FIRST ever cage (as I was very well protected inside and was enjoying lunch with friends 45 minutes later).

I have also seen one of Sam Lockwood's cages (almost positive it was his work) after a very morbid looking flip at RRR and the cockpit and driver came out A-OK.

Basically, I have seen these three after some horrific looking stuff (unfortunately was real up close for one of them ) and they all stand the test of a massive impact. Many thumbs up.

 

Trac Racing Depot in St-Eustache near Montreal:



They made me this lovely cage in the spring and are making me another for my new Civic in a couple of weeks. They have made several World Challenge cars/cages over the years as well.

Trac Racing Depot
1016 Arthur Sauvé, Local J
St-Eustache, J7R 4K3
tel: 450-472-0676
fax:450-623-9095

http://www.tracracing.com/home.html

 

I'm going to post the opposite. Do NOT go to Race Ready Technologies outside of Philly. They did a terrible job, took over two months to get it finished since every other car in the shop got a higher priority, despite their promised one week turn around time, and then tried to charge me triple the estimate. It got so bad that I had to threaten legal action to get them to waive my responsibility to pay more than 33% above their original estimate. They also managed to screw up my air/heating controls, broke the wiper switch, messed up the headlight wiring, cut through the VIN plate, and didn't re-install the dash right because he put the cross brace too far forward. The place sucks.


Matt

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Civic44 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Trac Racing Depot in St-Eustache near Montreal:



They made me this lovely cage in the spring and are making me another for my new Civic in a couple of weeks. They have made several World Challenge cars/cages over the years as well.

Trac Racing Depot
1016 Arthur Sauvé, Local J
St-Eustache, J7R 4K3
tel: 450-472-0676
fax:450-623-9095

http://www.tracracing.com/home.html
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Trac did this?? Those welds/notching are horrible...Next time just bring your car to Ronnie Obrien in Toronto probaly cost the same and the quality is 10x better.

 

I don't understand... what's wrong with the welds in the picture?

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by gotocrx &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I am going to plug myself. I think I am reputable ...

http://www.gotoracing.com</TD></TR></TABLE>

Yes you are reputable

 

Those are the last welds I would expect from Trac....they are horrible....looks like fluxcore.

I can tell they did NOT notch those tubes properly as that is why those welds are so messy as they are trying to fill the spaces from the bad notching with weld.

They could have made the rear shock tower tubes notched and join into one point but they put the tubes where ever was easiest....absolutely no effort was put into this cage.

Again this is the LAST cage I would expect to see from such a established place.

At least your silver paint looks good.