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I did use thicker tubing for this thing because of the weight. But in race weight, it's not too much heavier than a lot of things flying around out there on the track. I will be gusseting the cage I am putting in my brother's supra. But I did not do it for this cage. It is an option I have...

I keep forgetting about NHRA. For the stuff I do and the people I usually deal with it's NASA, SCCA, US Drift, FormulaD or D1 that they're worried about. But I think NHRA is the only rulebook that still gives you the benefit of weight savings if you use chromoly. I'm a rule book nerd...

Swingouts are nice for cars that will see a lot of street time. I don't like them as much for race cars because they do compromise some of the strength of the door bar. And with x-bars, or NASCAR bars, required for pretty much everything, swingouts are a little harder to pull off. But I was...

I don't think any of the interior is going back in. But Rob might decide differently once he picks up the car.

MDC, any reason why you're not a fan of MIG welds, just out of curiousity. Is it just an appearance thing? I mean a proper MIG weld is just as strong as a TIG weld, the only bad part about mig welding is less control over the heat affected zone. But for something like a cage and with Mild...

Thanks, He's planning on doing a lot of drifting with the car. I'm not sure what else he has planned besides that.

MDC, are you saying that you don't like my welds or MIG welds in general? But thanks for the tube fitting comment.

Thanks guys. To answer some of the questions. I start pricing at $900 and then depending on what else needs to be done it goes up from there. The X-bar in the doors is legal for a lot of stuff, NASCAR door bars are only required if you're cutting the door. On this car, the door was...

Well if you want to come out to Philly, I will gladly put one in your car.

So I finally got done this cage in a customer's Supra. I've been meaning to put a cage in my brother's car for a while, but things have been busy, and then Rob, Racerpage on here I think, came along and wanted a cage for his car. So this was the first supra I've done and I like the way it came...

Pricing should be under $20 shipped, I just need to get the drawings to my machine shop and tell him how many I need and he'll let me know how much. Tim

You don't need different tie rods. You just need little spacers. They're usually about 1/4" thick and you put them on the threads on the inner tie rod that goes into the rack. This will space out the stop on the inner tie rod out from the rack and allow the rack to travel further giving you...

A higher pressure cap can increase the cooling ability of the system. Water at a higher pressure will boil later and can take more heat. But Jaguar 5 said, it can bring out the weaknesses of the cooling system. But I don't think the Greddy high pressure caps are much higher pressure than the...

Did you go to the last drift event at e-town? There's another one on Halloween, I will be there, if you come just walk up to the front and ask where I am. I probably won't make it to the meet on the 27th. I have too much other stuff going on that weekend, but if I end up with some time I...

Drifting a supra isn't as bad as a lot of people think. You do have to deal with the steering angle problem, which is probably a big contributing factor to you spinning. The steering runs out on these cars quick when you enter a drift. The s13/s14 spacers will work, but they're big...

I did some looking around and realized that we might not be talking about the same thing. I'm talking about cars with a full cage, where the welded in harness bar should be used as the mount for the harnesses. But I found something that brought up a good point to support your side, that a lot...

Wait, are we just talking about straight line stuff. Because I've seen many stock pumps get starved during high lateral acceleration. But if we're just talking about going straight, then I guess you don't have to worry about it. A syphon shouldn't break flow, but I would definitely be...

And if it were only the stock pump feeding the surge tank it wouldn't work, but you also have the fuel returned from the rack, unless you think all the fuel delivered to the rack is always used. But if you really feel that you will be using that much fuel than why not do it right and either...

Why would the harnesses need to be bolted in the back? Wrapping them around the harness bar like that is perfectly acceptable and that's how a lot of harnesses are installed. That's how I've always mounted them. And it's better to have the harness in that location versus bolted to the floor...

I helped one of my friends put together a pretty nice fuel system for his FC. He's using some aeromotive pump and the stock intank pump, paired with a surge tank. Here's the surge tank: http://www.speedmachineperformance.com/product_p/smp%20fuel%20surge%20tank.htm We just used earl's...