Roll cages for 2 door RRC

[tightgroup]

Hi ,

I have been researching this subject for a while and quite frankly I did not find much.

For one I am looking for a roll cage for offroading purposes, something to save my neck so too speak, if I ever roll the Rangie.

However seeing what safety devices has to offer, I am a bit confused.

1) Firts its a 2 door and the cages for the 2 doors seems to restrain ingress to the back seat.
2) For the 2 door cages all seem to be in fornt of dash. Which for me seems odd, since I would have to dismantle the roll cage if I need to remove the dash

3) I have seen a design for a 4 door , but it seems weak , since the rear laterals would be bolted to the rear upper tailgate portions of the Rangie.

I have not ever worked with roll cages, used them or even try to build one. But from some of the prices I have seen 1300 , I tend to believe that a home grown version can be had for much less.

So here I am again asking for your kind help..

What is required to build a fairly simple roll cage?

I am looking at maybe a bolt in system, and cage protection for driver and passenger.. Just for roll over purposes..

Thanks

TG

 

[RRCNicky]

Been thinking about this myself - external, not internal though. I have only seen cages on RR's on trucks overseas, where they do lots of trial competitions. Try posting on British site www.difflock.com, you should get some hits on this there for sure...

 

[tightgroup]

Tks RRCNicky

TG

 

[lwg]

Hi ,

I have been researching this subject for a while and quite frankly I did not find much.

For one I am looking for a roll cage for offroading purposes, something to save my neck so too speak, if I ever roll the Rangie.

However seeing what safety devices has to offer, I am a bit confused.

1) Firts its a 2 door and the cages for the 2 doors seems to restrain ingress to the back seat.
2) For the 2 door cages all seem to be in fornt of dash. Which for me seems odd, since I would have to dismantle the roll cage if I need to remove the dash

3) I have seen a design for a 4 door , but it seems weak , since the rear laterals would be bolted to the rear upper tailgate portions of the Rangie.

I have not ever worked with roll cages, used them or even try to build one. But from some of the prices I have seen 1300 , I tend to believe that a home grown version can be had for much less.

So here I am again asking for your kind help..

What is required to build a fairly simple roll cage?

I am looking at maybe a bolt in system, and cage protection for driver and passenger.. Just for roll over purposes..

Thanks

TG

Having built a full internal roll cage I can help out a little.

1) It is difficult to get proper protection internally without interfering with the rear seat at some level. Just sit back there and think about where you'd put a 1.5" piece of tube without putting tons of bends in it which will both weaken it and costs a lot due to the amount of labor required to build it.

2) Cage in front of dash problem. This is how mine is as well. This is much, much easier than installing a cage through the dash, trust me on this.

3) not much response to this point.

Like I said I have built a full cage for my truck, search and you can probably find pics of it. It was built to keep me alive in a hard roll, nothing else. I probably have roughly $500 in this cage and I did everything myself. Probably have 40 hours or so into it as well. The planning definitely takes the longest, the welding the least amount of time. I can tell you knowing what I know now if I was given the option of paying $500 for a cage and putting 40 of my own hours into it versus paying $1300 for it completely finished with just me bolting it in I would really consider the latter.

In the end I'm cheap and would probably do it myself.

I hope this helps a little.

 

[Gordo]

protection and performance makes all different kinds of cages in UK, but not sure about pricing. Scorpion racing has them as well but they appear to be Safety Devices cages. Im thinking 1300 sounds pretty fair too. The DOM tubing is not cheap and to design and build one takes a lot of time. I am personally building my own for a series hybrid but that is mostly because I havent found one that suits my needs exactly from a vendor.
http://www.protectionandperformance.co.uk/

 

[tightgroup]

Thanks everyone.

I wanted something simple, not too expensive and not too complicated. Unfortunately, I will have to postpone the roll cage. With the current rebuild I need to fous on other items..

Thanks

TG

 

[nicky ill]

Hey man - ran across this today, looks like they could sort you out. Might cost to ship (use a boat, takes months but saves you $$$)...

Worth looking into to...

http://www.protectionandperformance.co.uk/