Built Small Block 360/727 Combo for Street/Strip Scamp. Opinions welcome!
Are you sure you got this right? It look like in post 10 he was given a strong recommendation for a TIG welded roll bar. Then Pittsburgh racer came in and disputed that necessity. Then somehow Dale Earnhardt got involved LOL and now everybody's calling everybody names-- what the hell!?
If you want to stand on post ten, then you are suggesting that NHRA is ignorant of what welding processes do what.
A MIG weld is no more or less likely to fracture than a TIG weld.
The rule book states that a MS cage can be MIG or TIG welded, but CM must be TIG welded. There are reasons for this. You can also use the oxy-acetylene process to weld CM with out issue but NHRA want allow that because it puts a ton of heat in the weld joint. Know that many airplane frames are welded using this process.
Again, the OP did nothing wrong. He'll be fine. Think of the legal mess NHRA would be in if in fact, MS was as deadly as some on here would have you think. Anyone who was hurt in a crash where the chassis was constructed to NHRA standards could hold NHRA liable for that. That's crazy.
This is an example of someone running off at their keyboard trying to hype their ****. How what they do is better than what everyone else does, and what they won't do because they think acting über safe makes them a hero or something.
I do agree with a street car and a roll bar and no helmet. You get in a crash and smack your head off a bar with no helmet the best you can hope for is a scrambled brain.
