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Originally Posted by Humble
.120 and I'm guessing 1.5" dia? Plenty strong for a beetle and it will probably be okay, but it looks like the main hoop leg was cut too short then re-welded in that first picture. Even if that's not the case it would never be approved officially because of that weld.
What you see there is a coupler that is with in the specs. Where the cage meets the fire wall there is 1/8 plate on both sides. We are going to be racing this car in the future and will find out what the tech inspector feels.
As for tying it into the supsension, no. That is why we went to the extents that we did to make it a structal part of the body. I'f you look over the chassis you'll find it uses our factory installed suspension set up.
Oh yea, I'm not offened I just don't want to undermine the thoughts of this over the top car in anyway. Hope you understand.......
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What Humble is saying is that for autocross or HPDEs you are fine, but if in fact you wanted to actually race this thing against other cars or do TT, the rules for most of the major sanctioning bodies state that there cannot be a bend in the bar that connects the main hoop to the rear. There also needs to be a diagonal bar that travels from the drivers head area of the main hoop to the floor area on the passenger side amongst other additional bars. We just don't want you to find out too late that you've got an under-engineered roll cage for road racing if you can catch it up front. I think she's too nice to race anyway! Hate to see something happen to such an amazing vehicle.
As far as the coupler is concerned, I'm pretty sure it's not going to fly on the main hoop, but I've got my fingers crossed on the diagonal, as I need to have some parts of mine removable to, the engine comes out through the passenger door!
Here's a link with the NASA rules:
document page 72(page number 59)
NASA Rule Book
Jason