Topic: Wartburg has a cage.

8:00am to 8:00pm and the Wartburg has a rollcage. 

My god that thing is small.

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--Rob Leone Schumacher Taxi Service
We won the IOE at Southern Discomfort.
We got screwed at The Real Hoopties of New Jersey  and we took cars down with us.
We got the curse at Capitol Offense but they wouldn't let us destroy the car.

Re: Wartburg has a cage.

Thanks again Rob!!

No crap, when you bent up the main hoop I thought for sure we screwed up the measurements.  Looks like a funny car cage.

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Re: Wartburg has a cage.

Good looking welds.  Its roomy compared to the interior of a '98 mustang, for a big car a mustang is tiny inside.

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Re: Wartburg has a cage.

Stovebolt wrote:

Good looking welds.  Its roomy compared to the interior of a '98 mustang, for a big car a mustang is tiny inside.

Its an illusion.  The car looks big in photos but its insane just how small it is.
If memory serves the measurement across the top of the main hoop was 30 inches.  I had to cut down our seats for the BABE rally to be able to get 2 in side by side.

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Re: Wartburg has a cage.

JThw8 wrote:

If memory serves the measurement across the top of the main hoop was 30 inches.  I had to cut down our seats for the BABE rally to be able to get 2 in side by side.

42 inches B-pillar to B-pillar at the roof.  45 inches at the floor.  The crazy part was when you take out a 7-inch bend radius on either side, the straight part of the main hoop is only 28 inches.  The halo bar has 24 inches between bends.

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Re: Wartburg has a cage.

DaveH wrote:
JThw8 wrote:

If memory serves the measurement across the top of the main hoop was 30 inches.  I had to cut down our seats for the BABE rally to be able to get 2 in side by side.

42 inches B-pillar to B-pillar at the roof.  45 inches at the floor.  The crazy part was when you take out a 7-inch bend radius on either side, the straight part of the main hoop is only 28 inches.  The halo bar has 24 inches between bends.

Must have been the 28 inch straight measurement I was thinking of.

http://wartburg.misfittoysracing.com
OTTER: "I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody's part."
BLUTO: "We're just the guys to do it."

Re: Wartburg has a cage.

JThw8 wrote:

I had to cut down our seats for the BABE rally to be able to get 2 in side by side.

I thoguht you were doing the "Smart Car" bit and having the passenger seat offset to the driver so that you weren't shoulder to shoulder.

--Rob Leone Schumacher Taxi Service
We won the IOE at Southern Discomfort.
We got screwed at The Real Hoopties of New Jersey  and we took cars down with us.
We got the curse at Capitol Offense but they wouldn't let us destroy the car.

Re: Wartburg has a cage.

RobL wrote:
JThw8 wrote:

I had to cut down our seats for the BABE rally to be able to get 2 in side by side.

I thoguht you were doing the "Smart Car" bit and having the passenger seat offset to the driver so that you weren't shoulder to shoulder.

We played with the idea a bit be then decided maximum leg room was more important.

http://wartburg.misfittoysracing.com
OTTER: "I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody's part."
BLUTO: "We're just the guys to do it."