Looks like carbon fiber roll cages have arrived
07-07-2008, 02:02 PM
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Looks like carbon fiber roll cages have arrived
07-07-2008, 02:06 PM
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pretty cool, I wonder if they will make them for older models?
07-07-2008, 02:09 PM
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I guess if they get FIA approval they would be OK for Club Racing...
07-07-2008, 03:00 PM
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My biggest concern would be the CF tends to be very brittle when it's impacted in a direction it wasn't designed for... I would be concerned that such a cage would be very susceptible to 'unusual' impacts...
07-07-2008, 04:23 PM
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07-07-2008, 04:38 PM
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Probably designed more as a crumple zone then a cage.
07-07-2008, 04:39 PM
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Probably designed more as a crumple zone then a cage.
I don't want to sit IN the crumple zone though...
07-07-2008, 04:43 PM
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This is for to posuer crowd....street GT3 with carbon fiber roll cage...and 1400 megawatt stereo and 500lb subwoofer....
07-07-2008, 04:48 PM
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This is for to posuer crowd....street GT3 with carbon fiber roll cage...and 1400 megawatt stereo and 500lb subwoofer....
Kim you'll have to speak up. My hearing is shot from loud music.
07-07-2008, 04:49 PM
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I don't want to sit IN the crumple zone though...
I just rolled over laughing
There are certain things where it is preferable they bend a bit instead of break and roll cages are one of them.
07-07-2008, 05:02 PM
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as soon as I see them in WRC or DTM or ...... whatever I will consider one
07-07-2008, 05:34 PM
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Anybody want to guess the price?
07-07-2008, 05:43 PM
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Anybody want to guess the price?
3 x = steel cage.
07-07-2008, 06:06 PM
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Anybody want to guess the price?
An arm and a leg?
07-07-2008, 06:07 PM
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It doesn't even have a diaganol bar from the upper B pillar to the lower B pillar on the other side! FIA Approval pending, No thanks. What happens when I step on the x door bracing to climb out of the window in my car?
07-07-2008, 02:02 PM
I just rolled over laughing 
