Need Any Welding advice?

When I build cages there's a few ways to get it done. Easiest is to cut holes in the floor and drop the entire cage down then at the end you lift the cage back up built your out riggers and patch the floor.
On full frame cars it's a litte more tricky.
Full frame cars I like to land right on the frame so you cant drop it down. In that case it's a give and take. Hopefully you have enough room to leave the cage down an inch or so for welding. If the driver height requires the cage to be touching the roof you better get dam good at welding with a lot of "stick out".

I believe NHRA allows tubes that can't be fully welded to be gusseted but I always manage to get around the tube.

The real trick to TIG welding cages is getting realy good at notching tube.
The welds only look as good as your notch.

Never think you can go back and fix the notch with weld. You cant, it always look shity.

I have turned A LOT of tube into scrap buildings roll cages..

Most times I will sneak up on the notch. I leave the bar long and notch two or three time to make it fit just right. As the bar shrinks from notching the angle of the notch changes so I make my first notch close and remove 1/4 of an inch at a time while bumping the notcher over until it's perfect.

Why do you think roll cages are so expensive? It's a ton of work and it's not easy.

Hell it's just your life, it dont have to be that good right?

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