Meet my Polo!

**Eddy** · 25-02-2011, 05:30 PM

Hoyhoy.

Me think he is very serious about this.

**Tarq57** · 25-02-2011, 05:44 PM

Originally Posted by Eddy

Hoyhoy.

Me think he is very serious about this.

Naah. He's definitely keeping his options open.

**Evaded Motorsport** · 26-02-2011, 10:47 AM

Man what on earth have you done with the main hoop. It looks like you have cut and welded the joins instead of bending the hoop.

**Spec83** · 27-02-2011, 07:06 AM

As I said above, the front strut towers are best if tied back to firewall/cage, as then the unibody will act as one component... If you don't do this, anything forward of the firewall will react differently to the rest of the car, as it is not as stiff.

NASCAR started doing this back in the 80's, and made great leaps in stiffness of their race cars

**Plautos** · 27-02-2011, 07:29 AM

Once the bend procedure compresses and pulls the tube... its structural integrity will be affected… so I decided to use curves. No big deal.

but the real motive was the lack of the right tool to do the job...

if I had a decent machine for bending the tubes... would be another story

**Plautos** · 27-02-2011, 07:31 AM

I know... but I´m not going to open a hole in the fire wall! Not now... at least...

Originally Posted by Spec83

As I said above, the front strut towers are best if tied back to firewall/cage, as then the unibody will act as one component... If you don't do this, anything forward of the firewall will react differently to the rest of the car, as it is not as stiff.

NASCAR started doing this back in the 80's, and made great leaps in stiffness of their race cars

**Evaded Motorsport** · 27-02-2011, 10:07 AM

Originally Posted by Plautos

Once the bend procedure compresses and pulls the tube... its structural integrity will be affected… so I decided to use curves. No big deal.

but the real motive was the lack of the right tool to do the job...

if I had a decent machine for bending the tubes... would be another story

Fair enough, coming from Australia if we turned upto have our cages inspected and passed we would just be laughed at here but that is only for CAMS events. Car looks good and I am interested to see what results you report with the cage in.