Thanks.
I made a shitton of progress on the cage and tacked things in. I am super stoked with how it looks and fits.
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Unfortunately, I overlooked an important item. When we first built this cage, the direction of this car was recreational. I had decided on crew tubing because it was available and affordable.
Since that time, we had morphed into the racing discussion and now a lot of planning and parts gathering has gone in that direction. I had totally forgotten about the tubing decision way back when and didn't account for tubing in the change of plans.
Disappointed in myself for sure. I honestly don't know if I can accomplish another bending feat as good as this one, but I must try to duplicate this cage in DOM. I don't see any other solution that could be considered a success all things considered.
One failure senario would be to make this a recreational car, but I would actually redesign the cage some for that anyway.
Another failure senario is that BOR let's me race it with crew tubing. I'm almost positive that the final construction would satisfy BOR's new Technical inspection guru, and it could be argued that this is a sportsman car at best and might only see a few races anyway so that a few races could be deemed successful. This is more acceptable to me, but...
I have a hand bender (jd2) and some of my concern comes from how easy the crew was to bend compared to DOM.
I've learned a lot over this last year and a half about tubing (Thanks to Ed and Richard for letting me learn). Now I have the bender and the notcher. Some of the previous results were skill and some pure luck.
I am pricing out DOM tubing today.
Two steps forward, one giant leap back.
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