My e30 DTM car copy build

[StreuB1]

A JD2 bender is like $500... there is no reason to run alloy steel over with a freaking truck to bend it.

Closer to the chassis is farther from the driver.

The flip side: Why would you want an ill-fitting roll cage?

Have you ever bent a roll bar yourself before??

[///meric]

John of S14.net uses MAXX with his build that is easily putting out 320+hp and he knows waaaaaaaay more than you or your dad ever will. As long as you have the correct MS chip for proper timing and spark with respect to the hardware youre running, MAXX is nothing more than fuel control.

This is basicly the reason i went with the Maxx system. I have talked with John many times tru emails and he has the right chips for the spark. I dont like reinventing the wheel. Going with a different ECU system would be doing that.

[Bill-B]

StreuB1 is over on bf.c, and is known to fabricate some pretty crazy shit. :up:

True that!!!

[StreuB1]

StreuB1 is over on bf.c, and is known to fabricate some pretty crazy shit. :up:

Im having a hard time following this thread with all you fags being such assholes. Let the man build the car the way he wants, suggestions are nice but shameless banter and bashing is juvenile and annoying at best.

EAD,
JHomo

:up:

[FredK]

shh. TRM bends the best cages EVAR. With like nodes and shit.

[///meric]

You should probably know something about the people you are flaming before you open your mouth.

The person that did the bending, has fabriacated more wild and crazy things then anyone on this forum.

[StreuB1]

You should probably know something about the people you are flaming before you open your mouth.

No flaming being done at all.

Teh hummer was used to bring the rollbar that was already bent back into plane.......they tend to twist naturally with the grain of the steel, no matter what you do. Tweaking the roll bar back into plane before its welded in means yer not putting a piece into the car in a stressed position.

It wasnt use to bend the tubing. If you can bend 1.75x.095 4130 with a car tire, I wanna see that first hand. I will even fly out to see it done.

The tubing was bent by an NHRA chassis builder remotely based on sketches and models I made. Distance of the driver to tubing is unimportant when the drivers head is over 6" away from it. All tubing located in the vacinity of the drivers body must be covered in SFI spec foam padding anyway. And if yer worried about yer head hitting yer roll bar, then you better put yer belts on bud.

[matt]

Have you ever bent a roll bar yourself before??

Nope. Got a guy for that.

He uses a hydraulic mandrel bender worth more than the house I grew up in... I'm pretty sure he's not running anything over with a truck either.

But that's not a big deal. I didn't even notice a problem with the fit of the cage.

[matt]

shh. TRM bends the best cages EVAR. With like nodes and shit.

[FredK]

Haha, I was gonna say, someone with a Dynasty 200 is probably not going to try bending a tube with a truck.

[StreuB1]

This board is better than BFC!

Though I feel bad for erics thread going to crap.

I can say personally I had nothing to do with that.

[matt]

OK... lets get this back on track.

I definitely like how the cage ties in to the diff and subframe. Do you have any in-progress shots of that process?

The cage also seems to have much better nodes than most of the ones I see being DIYed. Hopefully a few issues with the back section (shock tower plates) will be fixed and we'll get some updated pics soon. :)

[StreuB1]

i love the term "node"

it makes me giggle when i hear it

[matt]

i love the term "node"

it makes me giggle when i hear it

Me too... this one got me all excited. (not ours... RRT)

[StreuB1]

no i mean the word node bothers me

i call it a joint or a convergance point

a node is a point in 3D space with a polar coordinate as its definition