After working (slowly) on building my CRX up for H1 competition, including getting the 6 point cage welded in... I've decided to give up the chase.

Two years ago, I had a goal of getting my race license, then dicing it up in the wonderful WCHC. Well, budget issues, an INSANE real estate market here in Vegas (hard to buy a house when a lousy 2 bedroom house goes for $150K, and i'm looking for a 2 car garage with 3 bedroom house), and of course, NO road racing venues IN vegas.

so, i decided to cut the cage out of my CRX. I cut the forward hoops, roof bar, under dash bar, and door bars out from the car. I tried to make the cuts as clean as possible so that there's a possibility of sleeving the bars (much like a bolt in cage). I'm leaving the rollbar in, so i can safely mount my harnesses. The whole forward portion of the cage weighed in at 59lbs, excluding hardware and window net.

After racing shifter karts and other karts lately, the cost to purchase a trailer, a truck, and other items just outweighed the actual seat time I'd get by race a car. I think my focus will switch to 125cc shifters. Much cheaper to race in... considering the ease of transportation, rebuild, tyres, and overall seat time.

I'll definitely keep the CRX for autocrossing, drag racing, and open track events... I just think the wheel to wheel racing thirst will just have to be clenched with karts. Plus, i think racing karts will be far more rewarding, due it's higher physical demand (forcing me to actually work out), it's higher level of skill needed to be fast, and it's just so much friggin fun.

someone made a thread recently about being competitive in three different motorsports. i guess it IS more difficult than one would think.

 

oh, one question i had was:

Rollcage sleeving. the cuts i made were:
Forward hoops - half an inch from the main hoop.
Roof bar - ONE cut, 4" from the passenger side forward hoop.
Underdash - ONE cut, 4" from the passenger side forward hoop.
Door bars - half an inch from the main hoop

would this be an issue in the future, if i ever decide to put this cage BACK in... (weld it in with support pieces).

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Driven &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote"> (hard to buy a house when a lousy 2 bedroom house goes for $150K, and i'm looking for a 2 car garage with 3 bedroom house)</TD></TR></TABLE>

Wish I could find a 2 bedroom house for 150k..... One bedroom (tiny) condos are hard to find for under $160k around here.

Gotta get your priorities in order though, which it sounds like you are doing

Brian

 

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Wish I could find a 2 bedroom house for 150k..... One bedroom (tiny) condos are hard to find for under $160k around here.

Gotta get your priorities in order though, which it sounds like you are doing

Brian</TD></TR></TABLE>
oh, i'm talking LOUSY. Like, you walk in the front door, sneeze, and you run into the backyard outer wall. Or, you walk out on the front lawn and people steal your car.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Driven &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">oh, one question i had was:

Rollcage sleeving. the cuts i made were:
Forward hoops - half an inch from the main hoop.
Roof bar - ONE cut, 4" from the passenger side forward hoop.
Underdash - ONE cut, 4" from the passenger side forward hoop.
Door bars - half an inch from the main hoop

would this be an issue in the future, if i ever decide to put this cage BACK in... (weld it in with support pieces). </TD></TR></TABLE>

That half inch may be a problem!

The rest will be close but from what ive always seen, a 8" sleeve is the norm

 

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Wish I could find a 2 bedroom house for 150k..... One bedroom (tiny) condos are hard to find for under $160k around here.

Gotta get your priorities in order though, which it sounds like you are doing

Brian</TD></TR></TABLE>

LOL I wish it was that cheap here . . . . . there's nothing for less than $300,000 in socal. Unless it's an old beat up 2br condo in a sh*tty area. My 3br condo is worth around $500k

 

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Werd. My tiny place (the bank's place) with one bathroom is worth 500...crazy

Don't be sad, karts are fun!

 

2 bedroom condos going in my hood for 500k+

Our house a 3bedroom 2 bath house, we purchased at around 300k 9 years ago has been appraised for 900k+... Buying real estate in socal is getting harder and harder.

None the less good luck on whatever you decide to do

 

Well, one of the benefits of living in Vegas is that it WASN'T california

now, all of a sudden, $150K homes are going for $300K... this ballooned all in the past 2-3 years!


Also understand, the pay in Vegas isn't quite as high as it is in other cities...making home ownership even harder.

bastards!

and crap about the sleeve. I wonder, can you weld a pipe on the rollbar, sleeve that to the remaining portion of the cage?

 

You'll have fun racing the karts. And karting is pretty popular in Las Vegas. But don't get me wrong...racing karts is still expensive. I can't even mention how much I've spent this year.

Good luck, have fun.

AJ

 

heh, heh... you should have bought the house even 6 months ago... my house doubled. wanna buy it ? you wont have to move very far i want a 4 car garage.
talk to me about the karts. may be able to hook you up when my new chassis comes. im keeping my rocket engines though. but do know where to get a good one.
i was going to keep the chassis and stick a CR 500 on it, but im starting to have too many projects.
dave

 

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Good point

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">talk to me about the karts. may be able to hook you up when my new chassis comes. im keeping my rocket engines though. but do know where to get a good one. </TD></TR></TABLE>
let me know...

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Driven &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Well, one of the benefits of living in Vegas is that it WASN'T california

now, all of a sudden, $150K homes are going for $300K... this ballooned all in the past 2-3 years!


Also understand, the pay in Vegas isn't quite as high as it is in other cities...making home ownership even harder.

bastards!

and crap about the sleeve. I wonder, can you weld a pipe on the rollbar, sleeve that to the remaining portion of the cage? </TD></TR></TABLE>


Try finding a 1 bedroom condo in northern va that was built post -1960's for under 210k.