Roll cage and brooklands band.

[Alex Wong1697456877]

Does anybody know if you can fit the Superlight R Roll cage (the one with the Curved tubes on top) onto a car with a Brooklands band?

 

Alex Wong

www.alexwong.net

www.slipstream-trackdays.co.uk

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[stevefoster]

Do you mean the aeroscreen stanchion?

I think it gets in the way of the front cage bolting points.

 

The SLR cage doesn't fit a non race chassis without mods. This I checked. The Supersports cage does fit and all later chassis have the captive nuts on both sides (where the FIA bar petty strut bolts on).

 

 

[Morls]

Alex,

 

If it doesn't fit, and you have to make a different bracket, can I have first refusal on the standard bracket please.

 

Cheers

 

 

Mark

[Slipper man]

Does any one know if a certain Chinaman has any chance of squeezing into a car with a roll cage.smile.gif

 

And when he tries to get out again, can someone take pictures?!

[Slipper man]

I had a look at a cage on a Blackbird at the Sales office. It had a screen on as well, so you can get one that will take both. The cage with the curved bars at the top appears to fit to the same bolts at the front as the screen, but presumably there is some strengthening behind somewhere.

[Alex Wong1697456877]

Jexy,

 

When one is wearing appropriate footwear, negotiating roll cages and the like is quite easy even for the more rotund oriental.

 

When I was at school, you wouldn't have been allowed onto the climbling frame wearing a pair of moccassin slippers for fear that you would fall off. I remember the lessons we learnt at school and I believe they should still apply to the games we play today - or is there another reason for your tendancy to spin?

 

The Certain Chinaman

[V7 SLR]

7X, pity you missed Wednesdays meeting at the Brook because you could have practiced getting in an out of V7 with the Roadsports cage now installed. I gotta say, as someone who's also not arrow-thin, that it's not easy. It's like getting in and out each time with the hood on. ... But the advantage being that when you do put the hood up, it's no harder to get in and out. smile.gif

 

Whilst getting in and out, I banged my knee 3 or 4 times in succession, enough to cause each successive bang to evoke serious cussing. And then there's the little "nipple" on the top of my baseball cap (think people call it a button). It's right on the top of my head... the softest and most sensitive part, and I keep hitting that on the damn bar too. That hurts too...

 

... So, the disadvantage of owning a cage is the pain involved in daily operation, regardless of its life-saving potential.

 

PC has just installed the full race cage, but you've probably seen it at Curborough. I don't think you have enough welded-into-the-chassis nuts to fit the full cage. However, you do have enough enough of them for the Roadsports cage. And that will fit with your Brooklands band.

[Alex Wong1697456877]

I've tried getting in and out with both cages and it wasn't too difficult. Like all these race tweeks though, it makes it harder for people used to road cars to have a go and I get huge enjoyment from people trying my car (apart from those who go faster than me!)

[stevefoster]

Excellent Nigel! I can almost hear the flow of cursing words reaching me from up there....

 

I practised on Simon Ray's car and I reckon you could go out to the garage and do 10 entries and exits a couple of times a week instead of going to the gym! You need the right muscle groups trained for cage entry/exit..

[V7 SLR]

Got it susswed now. I think it must be muscle memory... although my back's never been the same when lying in bed at night. Must be getting either fatter or older.

[V7 SLR]

Got it susswed now. I think it must be muscle memory... although my back's never been the same when lying in bed at night. Must be getting either fatter or older.