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Topic: Roll Cage NO NO's

http://forums.bimmerforums.com/forum/sh … ?t=1590661

Thought I'd share this over here as there seems to be a lot of questions about cages. 

Mods, not sure if this should just get lumped in with another thread.

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Re: Roll Cage NO NO's

We see a lot of cages fail tech and require last-second thrashing to fix, so cage questions are always worth asking.

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  • From: Columbus, OH
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Re: Roll Cage NO NO's

That's a terrifying cage.  Sad.  The builder even bragged about it on their web site - at least until the car owner called them on their shoddy workmanship.

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  • From: Mentor, OH
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Re: Roll Cage NO NO's

This is the reason I leave the cage building to a qualified, spoken for professional.

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JB Weld? What!?

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Re: Roll Cage NO NO's

that looks like it is strong enough to hold up during a sneeze

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Re: Roll Cage NO NO's

I can weld better than that, and my welding sucks. Painted over JB Weld? What part of that isn't fraudulent?

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Re: Roll Cage NO NO's

Given a really good lawyer one may be able to prove attempted murder.

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Re: Roll Cage NO NO's

That cage looks like I did it.  I've never welded or built a cage.  That is awful.

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Re: Roll Cage NO NO's

porkchops22 wrote:

Given a really good lawyer one may be able to prove attempted murder.

It's an obvious case of negligent manslaughter (attempted).

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Re: Roll Cage NO NO's

Holy shit. Another reason I'm glad we decided to do our own....

I hope he left a cutup pile of tubing on the guys doorstep.

Maybe JB weld the tubes to his front door?

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Re: Roll Cage NO NO's

It's unbelievable that someone would actually pass that off as work.

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Re: Roll Cage NO NO's

look; I got my welder in October, have no lessons, and a few pointers from youtube and my dad. If that guy is considered a "professional" then I must be a master because my FIRST welds ever look better than that main hoop to halo junction.

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Re: Roll Cage NO NO's

We get a lot of cages like this at my shop, we cut 'em out an replace 'em on a regular basis.

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Re: Roll Cage NO NO's

It would seriously piss me off to pay a "professional" cage builder and see that mess.  The unfortunate thing is that the customer in that story didn't know enough to question it prior to getting to tech.

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Re: Roll Cage NO NO's

those door bars are intriguing though. Would that pass if it was on an otherwise sound cage?

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Re: Roll Cage NO NO's

Evil Genius wrote:

We get a lot of cages like this at my shop, we cut 'em out an replace 'em on a regular basis.

Yeah - and my Drag-bug cage was about sixteen times better that that thing! Clint snapped a back-brace weld by hand, and Clint's no body-builder.

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Re: Roll Cage NO NO's

Akaishi wrote:

those door bars are intriguing though. Would that pass if it was on an otherwise sound cage?

Should be OK, but I'm not an authoritative source obviously.  Could slice out a section from each bent door bar and weld the two together.  Or weld together and add plates like this.  Use a die to press a lip into the plate through the hole to add rigidity.

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Re: Roll Cage NO NO's

Same design on the door bars, no pics seemed to show it all though
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