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Looks great! Nice to see the project progressing at a nice pace. Cage projects can be huge undertakings. When I did my cage a few month ago it involved 120hrs of labor plus the paintwork that followed.
****'s getting real! This is looking fantastic dude! Love the cage design. Not what you typically see.
Thanks man !
Originally Posted by dgmark
I have had many cages done, cage builders are a strange lot, its either done in a week or 8 months. Make sure the forward tubes are as high as they can go, they need a little bow in them , if they are straight your helmet will come in contact even with a containment seat
Took me 2 to get the first tube cut... We seem to be on a good pace now but the path here has been been trying. Did fit check with the builder so he's got an idea the space he has to work with. Thanks for the feedback.
Originally Posted by lgyee4
DOM? That's a beautiful way to use it.
Your fab and TIG skills are impressive
Not my skills, I wish. The fabricator is doing a nice job, whole cage will be tig'd.
Yes, we're using DOM, would liked to have gone with DOCOL but the cost was just too much to swallow.
Originally Posted by powdrhound
Looks great! Nice to see the project progressing at a nice pace. Cage projects can be huge undertakings. When I did my cage a few month ago it involved 120hrs of labor plus the paintwork that followed.
Thanks John - Even with smaller scope of my project, it has certainly felt like a big undertaking indeed. Now that she's got some tubes in and the fabricators attention, I feel a lot better seeing the daily progress.
At least the dampers hit the country, still need to get them to MA so still room for it to get fubar'd... again.
For a multitude of reasons, this winter and beginning of spring has sucked... Whereas I am normally very schedule ****, and driven - I have failed miserably of sticking to what was the schedule and will end up being off by a month, maybe 2. It was a good plan on paper but once the nuts and bolts started flying... it went to ****. At this point, I am focussing on getting some detail stuff in place, small parts and re-assembly considerations and if one thing comes out of the ****ty situation, it's I want it to be perfect and something I can be proud of.
At least the dampers hit the country, still need to get them to MA so still room for it to get fubar'd... again.
For a multitude of reasons, this winter and beginning of spring has sucked... Whereas I am normally very schedule ****, and driven - I have failed miserably of sticking to what was the schedule and will end up being off by a month, maybe 2. It was a good plan on paper but once the nuts and bolts started flying... it went to ****. At this point, I am focussing on getting some detail stuff in place, small parts and re-assembly considerations and if one thing comes out of the ****ty situation, it's I want it to be perfect and something I can be proud of.
in this crazy supply and demand time be lucky it’s only going to be a few months off schedule. Looking forward to you getting back in action on track though…
Jason, I am still thinking about your JRZs. Which ones did you get and what are you thinking for the set-up?
RS Pro 3 Way (high and low speed compression, rebound), spring rates are 900 F and 1100 R, these were decided on as a good starting point based on the tires I will principally be running, NT01, the weight and aero load and my use. Valving is for these rates to be on the lower end of the spring rate spectrum giving me more headroom to go up in rate and little to go down.
Getting into these high end dampers has been kind of a new world @powdrhound gave a lot of good and detailed advice and Angelo at Anze were so helpful. You can buy these setups from both guys and really you can't go wrong with either, both incredibly knowledgeable. The options for high end suspension systems seem endless from a spec standpoint, I just did not have the depth of knowledge or experience to just know what I wanted, especially with such a large financial adjustment meaning I really wanted to get it mostly right the first time. I literally spent weeks talking to a lot of different people getting advice and learning and John and Angelo at Anze were the guys that best paired technical depth and experience to the platform.
Going to a multi adjustable damper means that record keeping and data collection can no longer be an afterthought if I want to get out of them what they have to give. Keeping track of the setup for each session at each track, track temp, tire pressure, temp and wear, how did the car feel, data from the logger and how fast the car ran all give pieces of information that can be put together to indicate how a setup change MAY make the car faster, easier to drive or both.
I'm excited to use them, and the fact that @theprf is also new to a set of 3 ways, @powdrhound 's old Moton setup - I think him and I will have a lot of fun on the working them in side and sharing some data and info to hopefully speed up both our setup developments.
Very cool Jason. Congrats to you and Prf. JRZs and Motons are at an entirely different level for the track. Looking forward to hearing about the adjustments you make as you dial them in on your car. Bet you will have a blast getting them right for each track.
Pretty stoked to see this build come together! Watching your track videos you were already passing a bunch of people with the set up that you had so things are looking pretty bright if you ask me!
03-31-2022, 09:24 PM
