NEW QUESTION!

What are you all using to paint your cage?

I'm just wanting gloss BLACK


Ok I'm about to buy a Cromoly roll cage. It is good up to 9.99 to 8.50 seconds in the 1/4 mile 135 mph yada yada... What do I need to buy to make it legale for a faster E/T / MPH?

 

to go quicker than 8.50 you need a 25.5/25.2/25.1 depending on the weight of the car.

 

if you got a 25.5 cage you could be certified to run 7.50's then you need a parachute and window net!!

 

Funny car cage, bars under the floor plus a few other additional bars.

Basically you add more bars to your existing cage and since it is c-moly you could update to 25.2 which is 6.0 ET or slower, or 25.5 which is 7.50 ET or slower.

Either one will take a good deal of work to upgrade later, if you have the money now and plan to go faster than 8.50 you might consider doing 25.5 or 25.2 now so you don't have to tear down the car twice.

Also the cage you are getting is legal to faster than 135 mph. You'll need a shoot to go faster, not upgrade the cage, but an 8 second car is going to be over 150 mph.

 

I have been looking at wolf's cages. Where else can I buy a cage at? I'm just wanting to look around before I buy one.

 

RAGENZ28 Do you have any pics of your car?

 

We used a Wolfe 8.50 cage as the starting point for a 25.5 cage. It fit really nice. I didn't get it notched which was good because some of the tubes were a little long. That gave us a little room to change things a bit. For example, the main hoop goes through the floor to connect to a cross member below the floor. If you are not doing a 25.5, and want to just do an 8.50 cage, definatly get it notched. It takes alot more tubing and alot more work to go from an 8.50 to a 25.5.

 

wouldnt they make the tubs longer since it wasn't notched?? just makes sence to me.

 

Yeah, thats my point. If I would have got it notched, I would have had to mount the main hoop to the floor with 6x6 plates. Since the tubes were not notched, and therefore longer, we ran them through the floor to a crossmember.

 

ok. I understand now. I have seen some cars that do run the cage through the floor and build some bad *** bracing under the car to mount them to. Should I think about doing this?

 

That depends on how fast you want to go. I have seen guys quote around $1600 to $2500 for an installed price for a 8.50 cage. For a 25.5 (7.50) cage, your talking $7000 and up.

 

I had a wolfe molly 10 point (for 8.5's and slower) and had it welded in and found out the hard way it costs pretty much just as much to have someone fab the cage themselves and weld it in.

If you are a good welded then go for the kit.

I am going 25.5....... It will not be cheap but I plan to go that fast and don't want to tear the car down twice.

It will be more expensive to get it certified twice and re painted, ect ect not to mention trying to get your car into the chassis shop.

 

I have the notched Wolfe chromoly. The fitment was pretty good for the most part. I don't ever plan on going faster than 8.50. It's a pretty niece piece.

 

if your looking for a cage to go faster then 8.50 try contacting the guys over at burkhart chassis or midwest chassis. burkart will be taking care of my cage soon.

 

ok lets say when I get this car done, and I end up runing a high 7. I would need to run the 25.5 right.

Dumb question whats the difference between the 25.5 and 25.2? any pics?