curren roll cage design.

[matt dunn]

Ovalised as in no longer round so the tube can be distorted either way. For ease of maths, if your tube was 100mm diameter and was crushed a bit in the bending process, the minimum measurement it can be is 90mm.

Yeah but they way I read it,

when you crush bend a pipe, it flattens off the pipe a bit,

so with your 100mm pipe you may end up with a measurement of 93mm from top to bottom, but will spread to 105mm side to side,

so 105mm x 0.9 is 94.5mm so even though it is 93mm it is still out.

[Infinite]

redmist were does your cage at the rear end up finishing on the strut towers?,

Also got a off cut of roll cage tube and unfortinitly our bender crush's it but lucky there is a guy in town who will be bending it for me in a proper roll cage bender.

[fangsport]

Also got a off cut of roll cage tube and unfortinitly our bender crush's it but lucky there is a guy in town who will be bending it for me in a proper roll cage bender.

just get a kit bent up by someone who knows what they are doing, a 6-point kit in steel starts at about $400, less if you only get the bends done.
i have seen many bends done by very experienced guys still exceed the limit on oval-ness.
it will save you money if you waste tube on bad bends.

[RedMist]

[quote="Infinite"]redmist were does your cage at the rear end up finishing on the strut towers?,
[quote]
They are plated and end on the backseat facing side of the strut tower.

[Infinite]

Also got a off cut of roll cage tube and unfortinitly our bender crush's it but lucky there is a guy in town who will be bending it for me in a proper roll cage bender.

just get a kit bent up by someone who knows what they are doing, a 6-point kit in steel starts at about $400, less if you only get the bends done.
i have seen many bends done by very experienced guys still exceed the limit on oval-ness.
it will save you money if you waste tube on bad bends.

the guy who is going todo them owns his own fabrication shop in town and has built many roll cages... and its going to cost me $88 for 5.5mtr length's of roll cage tube 38.1x2.5 i will need 3 lengths, and the guy will do all my bends for $60, so all together not including time this is cheap also will be picking up my plate tomorrow. just sucks cause i start work again tomorrow!!!

[strx7]

are you using Roll Cage tubing or Chrome Molly? If you're using rollcage tubing from steel and tube you are getting tugged on the price. Mine cost me $67 per length

[Infinite]

evan maurice thompson cant get it for that.

[strx7]

i just rang steel and tube at the mount. the guy i spoke to was a friend of a friend and gave me 10% discount.