Anyone planning on buying a rollcage ?

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MOPARMAGA

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Hurry the hell up, Art Morrison 2022 catalogue has their 10 pt cage listed as $445.00, I called them yesterday to order & TR, the guy I was speaking with said the price had gone up, I'm thinking 6 or 700 bucks....NOPE, $1250.00 with tax, that's mild steel.
I was hesitant on buying chromoly because it was $800.00 but now it's $2500.00
I bit the bullet because for at least 2 more years **** is just going to get out of hand, worse than it is unfortunately.
 
In two more years you many not be able to buy one at ANY price
 
Some of the cage will be used in another car. We will bend the hoop and front/rear down tubes ourselves. Bought a two 20 ft lengths extra. Much cheaper if you have a bender.
 
Mild cage in my Duster put weight to 3850. I bought a chrome moly cage from S&W for the new car. they always have the best prices and fit. I bought everything for a 25.5 chrome moly cage for under $1700. with column and shoot mount. I believe the 10 point Chrome moly was $750

S&W Race Cars

how in the world does a Duster weigh 3850?
I had an all steel one( except bumpers) X block, 10 point mild steel cage with halo bars, frame connectors, leaf springs, full stock interior including back seat, Carpet, stock dash, door panels, headliner, etc, etc and a Dana, and with a 300+ pound driver( me) car was a little over 3350
 
I love S&W. Wish I lived closer because the shipping is a killer to Oregon.

My only concern with bending Chromoly myself is stretching the material too thin on the bends to where it can't pass tech. Got told 2 different stories by 2 different local NHRA techs here, so I'm not sure what to believe. 1 said they don't test the bend thickness and another said they do. I have a Tig and access to a mandrel bender and can build it myself, but I don't have a sonic tester.
 
how in the world does a Duster weigh 3850?
I had an all steel one( except bumpers) X block, 10 point mild steel cage with halo bars, frame connectors, leaf springs, full stock interior including back seat, Carpet, stock dash, door panels, headliner, etc, etc and a Dana, and with a 300+ pound driver( me) car was a little over 3350
Stereo with monster cables and amp.. Full cage mild steel cage. Spare and jack with mat. full 3 1/2 " exhaust, R3 block . Full bucket seat interior. frame ties, The car was all original with all options but AC. 3850 across the scales. at the track. with draglites I was also puzzled. Pulled it off and pulled it back on twice. The car was all steel . When it was all original it weigh a little over 3200. So the cage. Ties. new drive line . Braced rear and everything we added for the coolers and the harness made up the difference.

That is why we went to everything light weight on the new car. the dash is now glass with no harness.

Even the engine is much lighter LOL


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Mild cage in my Duster put weight to 3850. I bought a chrome moly cage from S&W for the new car. they always have the best prices and fit. I bought everything for a 25.5 chrome moly cage for under $1700. with column and shoot mount. I believe the 10 point Chrome moly was $750

S&W Race Cars
When ?
 
I just redid a few bars on the cage in my 66 Dart. When pricing out 1-5/8 ERW and DOM tubing locally, I noticed the prices weren't only high, they were absolutely insane. I didn't even ask about CM, since my cage is mild steel. The reason I was given from my local steel suppliers was the cost of steel has just gone up that much. I guess it makes sense considering the increased cost of lumber and other building supplies over the last two years.

I ended up buying the tubing I needed from the supplier Jegs uses for their jegster roll bar/cage kits. I have no idea why, but I only ended up paying about 35% of what it would've cost me to source the material locally, AND it was shipped across the country. Go figure. We live in weird time.
 
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