Autopower roll cage?
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Melting Slicks
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Autopower roll cage?
Hi does anyone have this cage? http://www.ioportracing.com/Merchant...ory_Code=AP401
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I'd be leary of that one because it looks like the rear down bars are designed to be bolted onto the wheel wells.
Are you looking for a roll bar for drag racing or HPDE, if it has to be NHRA legal give the guys at ECS a call they will build you a great looking bar that won't have a problem passing tech.
Are you looking for a roll bar for drag racing or HPDE, if it has to be NHRA legal give the guys at ECS a call they will build you a great looking bar that won't have a problem passing tech.
Melting Slicks
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The picture threre looks like a generic illustration. I looked a real Autopower catalog at a dealer this last Wednesday, and the C5 Coupe bar looks quite a bit different from the one on the link above .. What I saw has the rear supports going to the frame. The bar itself goes to the bulkhead behind the seats with flat mounting pads, notice the one in the link has bent mounting pads like it would go to the floor of a sheet metal car.
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Originally Posted by FiberglassFan
The picture threre looks like a generic illustration. I looked a real Autopower catalog at a dealer this last Wednesday, and the C5 Coupe bar looks quite a bit different from the one on the link above .. What I saw has the rear supports going to the frame. The bar itself goes to the bulkhead behind the seats with flat mounting pads, notice the one in the link has bent mounting pads like it would go to the floor of a sheet metal car.
Did it look like it would fit without interior alteration? Do the door bars go into the door NASCAR style so that the inner door panel needs to be removed?
Melting Slicks
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I was only looking at the basic version, the roll hoop with the rear supports, for a little added street protection and a place to mount shoulder harnesses. This set up would be fine for SCCA Solo 2 autocross, but fall far short of Solo1 requirements, which demand 6 point mounting with forward braces. T1 racing and any sort of SCCA production class road racing would requre a full cage meeting very specific technical requirements for side intrusion and overhead protection. I am less knowledgeable about NHRA drag racing requirements, other than that in the less prepaired classes, a 4 point is OK, but as you go faster a better cage is required. Sorry I don't have an answer for you at all, I just didn't even look at the drawings for the higher performance bars.
My dealer is Race Central, located in Portland OR, 503 area code. They don't have a working website right now, If you want to reach them just GOOGLE for a phone number or long distance info.. When you call, ask for 'Longacre' and tell him Jennifer sent you. I have been a customer there for many years. They have a nice catalog with REAL race stuff and high performance street stuff too, ..... and new one is coming out in a few weeks, Sorry I don't have phone number handy..It is in the catalog out in my Vette, and its raining cats and dogs right now so I want to stay inside.....[ I'll plead guilty to being a rain wimp, at least for this instant] I'll try to post it later, OK?
My dealer is Race Central, located in Portland OR, 503 area code. They don't have a working website right now, If you want to reach them just GOOGLE for a phone number or long distance info.. When you call, ask for 'Longacre' and tell him Jennifer sent you. I have been a customer there for many years. They have a nice catalog with REAL race stuff and high performance street stuff too, ..... and new one is coming out in a few weeks, Sorry I don't have phone number handy..It is in the catalog out in my Vette, and its raining cats and dogs right now so I want to stay inside.....[ I'll plead guilty to being a rain wimp, at least for this instant] I'll try to post it later, OK?
