Roll Cage?
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carsNskis
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There's very few builds out there because it's unnecessary. The Sonic doesn't go fast enough to require one in any motorsport except rally.
Ray Piloto campaigned a Sonic a few years ago in SPEC B, but everything done was custom.
BNR bought the Super Street Sonic build, it has a custom cage as well...adding unnecessary weight....
Unless you're doing stage rally you probably don't need one
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Ray Piloto campaigned a Sonic a few years ago in SPEC B, but everything done was custom.
BNR bought the Super Street Sonic build, it has a custom cage as well...adding unnecessary weight....
Unless you're doing stage rally you probably don't need one
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$ub$onic
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Speed has nothing to do with having a bar required or not. Whatever body is running the event will dictate that.
Most things over autox will require one as a minimum form of safety.
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Pretty much why I'm asking, I'm going to be doing autox but they require at least a single roll bar behind the front seats (I'm ok with this since I won't totally lose my rear seats) with a harness bar ON the roll bar, according to their tech guys a floor mounted harness bar is a big no no idk why but dems duh rulz.
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carsNskis
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There's no off the shelf bar available, so custom fab is your only option.
Proper harness installing requires the belts go back from the driver and mount a few inches below the shoulder line. Adding length to the belt for it to goto the floor reduces it's effectiveness.
Find yourself some circle track or stock car guys, they usually do work at redneck rates and still build strong stuff.
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JTee2017
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Here's a nice piece of work. . . .Watch the Youtube below - - -
I've seen that... it's a stunt cage. Way too beefy up front and not enough on the sides for actual racing. I'm putting a custom one together to run endurance w2w in the 1.4t I'm currently time trialing. B/c of the shape of the A pillar and dash (which is coming out...) I wanted to see if someone had pics of one of the B-Spec cars or had done something similar as a reference point.
You won't want to run the turbo in champ car unless you are okay with going up to the next class. The Sonic 1.8 NA model is great for champ car because it's at the highest displacement for the lowest level class. In SCCA you can run the turbo car in t4 with a limited slip differential. I think getting down to ride height will be a bit of a challenge though.
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