Have been considering getting just a simple half cage for my car just for the wank factor of it. Any 1 got any tips on fitment? brands or styles?

I did read an article once where to actually fit the cage inside the car it had to be strapped up with a tie down strap and compressed so they could get it in the door of the car. Does that need to be down with every type of half cage?

I was just intending on bolting it to the floor and rear wheel arch and plating it underneath...

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bonds roll cages, 1256 + delivery i was quoted, appently the hoop fits very easily through the doors on an angle , need to take seats and floor shift out though,

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Gee thats exy...? Is that just a half cage or full?

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I have an aluminum cage here and to fit it to a car you open the door and feed the hoop in upside down and then you flip it over the seats so that the legs of the hoop fit into the rear bins. Then you slip the rear supports into the clamp on the hoop and drill and bolt everything in place.
This is in a Cooper S with lowback seats.

Roll cages in road cars are a wank. They are just something else to hit your head on in a crash.

Yeah - I am the same way for a road car that does no competition work - Just something else to hit your head on in a crash. Then they make getting in and out of the car difficult. Particulaly when you are putting things like shopping on the back seat. I know you currently do that but never say never.

It wasn't that long back that out of four road registered vehicles we have on this place the only one on the road was the mini and we had 40 kilo bags of dog and chook food lying under the shopping on the back seat. Never say never.

But to balance my comments - a roll cage is vital in a mini in any competition work. The side intrusion co-efficient is woefull and a high speed roll tends to rip the doors off. If i had a mini that had a cage I would want a front hoop to keep the A pillars off me as well as the B pillars and a bloody great door bar to keep somebody's front end out of the driving compartment in a T-Bone.

Im fully aware of this..... But as my car is hardly driven and it already has the boy racer look, with the Sparco Seats and SAAS harnesses, i thought id finish it off with a cage.



I guarantee that there will never be shopping bags on the back seat. Ive got a crummodore for that. The back seat is not used anyways as my Sparco's dont tilt forward and the harnesses are mounted there.

What is a decent brand to run with? Who supplies them for Mini's?

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If you just want one for the wank value you could just get your local exhaust bloke to knock one up out of exhaust pipe.
If you want to be a bit more serious you could buy the right steel (or alloy) and get the exhaust bloke to bend it up.

No problems getting this cage in, mind you it won't cum out in a hurry.

Doogie

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half cage but that is the only one road worthy, i had a thought that you could hide the front arms in the head lining and then get them to follow the pillars

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Huh ??

As my favourite fish n chip lady said "please explain"

Mike, I myself have a hidden roll cage.

It is somewhere in the shed under a pile of panels.

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i was saying that because of the rules you cant get that cage near the driver and passenger heads, so run it through the roof lining, yes i know then you have the problem with the vertical part of the arm,

i was looking at a 6 piont aswell seeing that when a car rollls over, what the 1st piont in 80% of roll overs to hit the ground, the front corners of the roof, pillar dont look strong enough to sustain a low impact roll over,

my shopping trollly murdered, my groceries all gone

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