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Old May 16, 2010 | 10:31 AM
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Thumbs up Midwest Chassis 6 point cage

Just picked up my car from MWC yesterday. I must say that I couldnt be more pleased. It is exactly what I wanted. The swingouts are the coolest thing. Eric had seen them before, but couldnt find anyplace to get the base, so he made his own. I wanted something that didnt stick up like the wolf swingouts. Honestly I didnt really care if they did swing, I just wanted to remove them when I wasnt at the track. The door bars are perfect, the hoop is close to the headliner, but doesnt touch it, and really it doesnt seem to affect the view out of the mirror. I didnt want to put a cage in the car, but it is to the point that I couldnt run it anymore without it. (should go well into the 10's on spray) I wanted something that didnt remind me all the time driving it on the street that I had a track car. It is full weight, all the creature comforts ect... I am greedy and want the best of both worlds, to a point. I know it would go faster with weight reduction ect.. but that wasnt the purpose of the build.

Thanks again to Eric and the guys at MWC they did an awesome job, and were very understanding about leaving my car down an extra week with my father passing away. (RIP Dad)

tried loading pics, for some reason it wouldnt do it. I will try later
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Old May 16, 2010 | 10:50 AM
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neeed pics
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Old May 16, 2010 | 11:14 AM
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I have tried to load pics, dont know what is wrong. I have done it tons of times and it wont let me know. Says it is missing some security thing. I will contact admin.
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Old May 16, 2010 | 11:15 AM
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Its great to see people employing Eric for things other than just the rearends. He is a very capable fabricator with a fully equiped chassis shop. Now get some damn pics up!!!!

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Old May 16, 2010 | 11:21 AM
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tried the pics again, no security token. I will try again later. Am going to email some to Eric. If he sees this maybe he will post them up. He is at a track rental today though.
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Old May 16, 2010 | 12:13 PM
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Originally Posted by Broke EF
Its great to see people employing Eric for things other than just the rearends. He is a very capable fabricator with a fully equiped chassis shop. Now get some damn pics up!!!!

Sean
i have a feeling Eric is going to grow a lot over then next year or 2
he does a bunch more then rearends...and if everything works out in the next few weeks im goana have a few sick parts to show yall guys
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Old May 16, 2010 | 04:46 PM
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dont know why, but with the wifes nice camera, it wouldnt load the pics even off my sd card. So I took some quick ones with my crappy old camera.
Here ya go.
Attached Thumbnails Midwest Chassis 6 point cage-new-6-point-cage-001.jpg   Midwest Chassis 6 point cage-new-6-point-cage-002.jpg   Midwest Chassis 6 point cage-new-6-point-cage-003.jpg   Midwest Chassis 6 point cage-new-6-point-cage-004.jpg   Midwest Chassis 6 point cage-new-6-point-cage-005.jpg  

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Old May 19, 2010 | 10:23 AM
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Looks great!! thanks for posting pics
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I will get some more pics with the interior in soon
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Old May 22, 2010 | 02:21 PM
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How much did it cost you(labor)?
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Old May 22, 2010 | 06:32 PM
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Old May 22, 2010 | 07:09 PM
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DAmn I see nitrous and how much did it cost you?
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Old May 22, 2010 | 11:16 PM
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price was $1400 installed and painted. I had Eric do some extra things that he wouldnt have normally done, plus some other brackets. Had I not had the other stuff done, it would have been probably around 11-1200 installed and painted. I pulled the interior and put it back in. All in all after looking at the wolf cages and what they were going to cost to get here, I couldnt be happier. I wanted something for the swingout that didnt stick up out of the floor so much. The entire cage is awesome, you cant get any closer to the interior, and nothing touches at all. It was worth the drive and the $$. Anybody thinking of having MWC do anything for them, dont hesitate. Great to work with, great product, and great $$ for what you get.
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I wish I was closer to him so I could drop mine off for a while.
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Old May 24, 2010 | 03:30 PM
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Glad you are happy with the install.
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Old May 25, 2010 | 09:16 PM
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Looks good, now get out to the track! Or come show off that handy work at the HRPT next weekend!
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planning a trip to the track this weekend. Maybe the hrpt. dont know yet.
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Originally Posted by daniel6718
i have a feeling Eric is going to grow a lot over then next year or 2
he does a bunch more then rearends...and if everything works out in the next few weeks im goana have a few sick parts to show yall guys
I want my money back!
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