Choosing body braces.

[munchen]

not this stupid argument again...if you have a cage the firey's cant get in to get you out

In my opinion any decent cage is actually going to make it easier to get you out in the sense of your not being pinned in your car (unless the accidents is at such a force that the cage gets mangled, which would result in you most likely being dead had it not been there) sure, it might make it harder to cut the roof off, but i dont see that being an issue because you can window it.

the above is my opinion, like it or not, but i am more than happy to run cages in street cars

[Andy San]

if you have a broken spine it makes it hard to 'window' it

[lolwat]

would you prefer them to take 3 mins or 6 mins when you have blood pissing out of your heard and hanging upside?????
and this is a stupid arguement no matter what you say how factural or not it is if you wont a cage your going to cage it anyway



haha i love how people think that despite being half fucked after a crash they can dukes of hazard it out the window

[keiichi]

why are you so mad? no-one is arguing, calm down.

[munchen]

if you have a proper cage then chances are you will also be using appropriate seating and harnesses

[Andy San]

You'd hope so but judging by what most people on here consider to be a 'safe' bucket seat I'm not so sure. Plenty of people might run harnesses in their cars, but don't wear them for daily driving.

[Delazy]

Seen some nasty bucket seats, cracking and flexing from sitting in them let alone in a collision!

Seriously dnt understand why they dont spend slightly more and get something decent. The velo range is awesome and quite affordable.

Despite my build having jap this and that/everything im certainly overlooking bride/takata and going straight to velo for seats and harnesses.

[Andy San]

Well as an employee of velo I can certainly vouch for the amount of time and effort that goes into making each seat.

They are all still hand made and I never realised how much time goes into laying up the shells until I saw one get made up

[Slimer86]

Sam, Timmy D made a rear bar brace like the one you pictured for the back of his GZE sprinter.
Said it was quite effective.
Check his build thread.

[KurtHS]

There's only one way to learn so instead of just saying what you people don't do you should suggest what they should do, I see a lot of 'people don't know shit' 'that does nothing' etc etc but no 'hey if you do it like this it'll be safer' or 'use X instead of Y because it's better quality'

... not having a go but it's better for everyone if you point out flaws and then back that up with a better product.


I got a half cage because I'm a mummas boy and she told me to have one as long as I live at her house could've moved out if I didn't have the car but where's the fun in that. Rollover protection is surely increased? I'm not worried about side/rear/frontal impact because unless you have a beast of a cage you're not gonna fair too well in a small 80's Corolla. That said I have a Velo bucket and harness.