Crown Vic cage possibilities (Page 1 of 2)

I honestly don't think there is one. For our crown vic my dad dropped $600 on 1.75x0.134 ERW, and broke out the string, tape measure, and chop saw. Borrowing a decent pipe-bender for good measure, he came up with a really solid custom one, then paid a guy that did welding off the back of his truck to come and do it up. not the best WELDS in the world, but cage will probably stand up to anything.

I doubt there is any "on the shelf" kits for a Crown Vic....since they are either cop cars or taxi cabs and either way need a backseat....  The good news is there is plenty of room inside to fit a good solid cage!!

Where are you?   maybe we can steer you toward a good cage builder

I am not sure exactly how well this will work but a cage for a 1978 Caprice, Delta 88... and what not may work. Jegs makes one to Lemons spec.

http://www.jegs.com/i/Jegster/550/94670 … tId=749658

Easily fixed with a straight length of tube, fishmouthed to be welded into place.

The hardest part is the bends.

Check out Day Motorsports.  They make circle track cages (ERW not DOM) that will work but you'll have to add a few pieces.  $200 will get you nearly everything.

http://www.daymotorsports.com/product/1 … _ROLL_CAGE

This actually brings up an interesting question...

Does any one in the DFW area or Texas in General know of a steel mill that sells 1.5x120 DOM for a decent cost?

A couple of online shops want almost $100 for a 20 foot length.

A little more than a year ago I got 1.5x.120 DOM at EMJ/Earle M. Jorgensen in Oak Cliff. I got 80' in 4x20' sticks and I think the total was about $250 or $280 picked up at their yard. I just emailed or called them and they had it ready and available. They are a huge yard and I've been told that they don't "normally" sell such small lots and usually sell to other intermediate suppliers rather than direct sales, so I can't promise that you can duplicate these results. We bought this at pretty much the bottom of the market when nobody was buying much of anything and I think their sales force might have been glad to take any commission that they could get. IOW, YMMV.

Lemons roll cage spec says,

3.1.1: Rollbar Tubing and Padding: Minimum tubing size for cars weighing under 3000 pounds as raced is 1.50" x .120" or 1.75" x .095". Cars weighing over 3000 pounds as raced must use a minimum tubing size of 1.75" x .120".

Have your crown vics been over or under 3000 lbs on raceday?

I'm quite enticed by the Day Motorsports option (Thanks Lemonious Monk!) but if the car ends up over 3000 it wont pass tech. Anyone got figures on their race ready weight and what all they decided to take out of their Vic for weight reduction?  Thanks again                   -Kyle

I have no idea how much weight we pulled out of our CVPI. the stickered curb weight was a touch under 4,000lbs. the weight of the cage probably offsets the interior removal more than adequately. Bottom line, we built over-spec requirements and used 1.75x0.134 ERW.

We got our from these guys too, and it sort of fit.  We had to modify the halo, horizontal bar on the main hoop, and the diagnonal, but we made it work. 

In my experience if you don't have the skills to 'make it work' you'd better get a bolt-in cage from Autopower or have someone do all the work for you.

I used the Day motorsports cage and it was a good start.  Our pre-bent bars conflicted with our B-pillar, so we couldn't really use them.  The straight section in those gave us about 18 inches for use which didn't solve any diagonals or rear supports. 

I wouldn't expect you'll be able to pull out over 1000 lbs from the car to get under that 3000lbs.  The day cage shipped at 150lbs, and there was another bar for the rear supports, diagonal, and a door bar at 48lbs, so there's another 200lbs that will have to come out of it. 

That Swracecars cage sounds like a great option next to Day