I want to put in some kind of rollcage in my vert, for security, handling, and rigidity. I planed on making it a two seater anyways, and I hate the feeling of not having much rollover protection.

Jegs sells 4pt cage for about 120 bucks. Its a basic set, but it meets my requirements.

I am just wondering on the dang fit with the dang top.

How much would you think, a shop would charge to rig up a cage???

Should I do it myself, or maybe have friends with welders help me??

I am looking for suggestions of what the best way would be to tackle this! Where to buy parts/or cage!


Thanks.

 

I dont think anyone makes a cage for a vert. Your gonna have to have a shop that makes cages for cars make one custom for you. Im having a 6 point cage put in my vert soon. Its gonna be all custom.

 

Please let me know what you come up with. Been thinking about putting one in my '87 Z vert. Rick

 

I thought auto power roll bars fit our cars? Search them. I e-mailed them about shipping to Canada and they said it would be cheaper to get someone to make one locally.

 

any of em should fit just fine. Mine had a Comp. Eng hoop and I got the rest of the bars bent at a local shop.

The hoop comes with extra long legs so you have to trim em anyways. So you can get a snug fit as close to the top as you like. Here are some pic's of what the car use to look like.

http://www.cecoatings.com/images/Car...e/DSC00120.jpg
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http://www.cecoatings.com/images/Car...e/DSC02263.JPG
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http://www.cecoatings.com/images/Car...e/DSC02265.JPG
http://www.cecoatings.com/images/Car...e/DSC02266.JPG
http://www.cecoatings.com/images/Car...e/DSC02267.JPG
http://www.cecoatings.com/images/Car...e/DSC02731.JPG
http://www.cecoatings.com/images/Car...e/DSC02732.JPG
http://www.cecoatings.com/images/Car...e/DSC02735.JPG
http://www.cecoatings.com/images/Car...e/DSC02737.JPG

Hope some of those pic's help ya out.

The new project car has the same setup but with normal straight side bars this time.

 

I have an appt. at the end of march to have a custom 8 pt cage put in. I plan on printing out some pics from tpi 383's cage to give the chassis guy an idea on how i want the top bars off the main hoop. In your case if your not gonna use the back seats, then depending how fast you want to go i would say at least do a 6pt.

 

How much are you guys paying for your cages to be made??

 

The current one in my car $200 at a local chassis shop for the material and I fab/welded it in myself.

 

Thats not to bad!

Do you know of any stores on the net that just sell the rollover bar for verts?

 

I don't know of any VERT specific.

ANY of the KITS will work. You have to cut the hoop legs to the right length anyways. The rear bars will be straight in a pre made kit. I personally don't like the look of the straight bars in the back on a vert. So I mocked these up with electrical conduit took em to a local shop and had em bent for me.

 

Mine is gonna be a couple hundred, but i know the work that is gonna be done is amazing. I will def. try to have pics up of the before/during/after process.

 

I put a autopower 4 point bolt in into my 4th gen vert and it fit perfect and came with a in/out harness bar.

3 bolts per leg in the floor and a tab under the bolt at the top of the sail panel for the stabilizer.

to that I added a diagonal from the back of the driver's head to the passenger lower upright also bolts in out for track use and a pair of rear braces from the back of the bar down to the cross brace behind the rear seats, also bolt in/out. the seat back must be out for the rear supports other bolt ins to fit.

I'm hoping it will be the right size for a 3rd gen or at least minor mods to make it fit. Does anyone know how different the third gen body configuration is to a 4th gemn?
I'm thinking pretty close.
Evan

 

Not really close at all. I took some measurements of my friends 4thgen vert with the Wolf bolt in cage, and it wasn't close enough for me to consider trying it in my thirdgen.

 

I'm ging to try in about 3 weeks and will post how it goes.
E

 

results??

 

I never got the 3rd gen. I got the 4th gen coupe, hated it and sold it.

BTW, I have an Autopower 4 point 4th gen hoop with harness bar, diagonal from driver's head to pass floor and 2 rear supports to the (4th gen) cross brace, all the additional bars bolt in and out so it cam be run as a basic hoop in street mode and 6 point w harness and petty bar for the track.

For sale, pretty cheap, the shipping will sting a bit though.

 

I picked up a 91 vert this week and checked the autopower main hoop. it "would" fit but the legs are too long. need to cut the legs down and reweld the pads back on.

I will prolly call autopower first for some consulting.

I/Oportracing.com has the fitment guide for autopower on thier site.

the 3rd gen specific 4 point starts at about $375 and about $400 w a horizontal cross brace that goes in and out.

E