There are several things to consider when building a cage other than wall thickness and welding points. The most important thing is how the bike hits the ground.

 

something tells me this guy might have an idea.....not sure why

 

complaining about cages and making them in downtime and you got everything to do it for cheap as hell...
KNOCK THAT **** OFF!

 

exactly the reason to build your own... But then again I am tired of working on these P.O.S bikes of mine..

 

[quote=Tiretrauma]Wrong, Tig makes a great weld on steel!!

In the TIG (tungsten inert gas) TIG welding differs from MIG (metal inert gas) quote]



I never said you cant weld steel with tig... i said u cant arc weld aluminum. i went to school for structural welding, buildings to bridges and anything in between.
btw almost anyone can tell you what the abreviations for mig and tig are.

 

I know what needs to happen......Mr. Sick Innovations should have a raffle for a cage......$1 per raffle ticket






p.s. Ian.....I'll give you $50 to let me win!!!

 

[QUOTE=ptcspotweld]And anyone can copy and paste from a website to look like they know what they're talking about....

Tiretrauma

http://www.stanford.edu/group/prl/do...ml/TIGweld.htm

 

LOL.. Now taking bribes!

 

damn......can't catch a break these days I guess!

Guess I'll have to save up money to buy one

Do you have a payment plan system for cages? Like $3.50/mo for like 60 months?

 

i made one out of really high grade (almost tool quality) stainless one time for a 929, worked really well

borrowed the metal from my work so the whole thing was free

 

i am a welder and i wish that i had my own equipment or access to my work cause i would love to build my own cage. I actually wouldnt mind building cages for some side money. I think the best way to go would be with a very high grade steel, like a "tool type" steel..Plus if you have the money for stainless it wouldnt only look sick, it would be very strong. Plus the blueing from stainless tig welds would look very nice and polish the rest. Unfortunatly i cant build one cuz my work is run by a bunch of *******. So i am buying one. What would you all suggest to me for an f4i. I was lookin at mxd and Sick innovations...which is the best? new to slow **** so im gonna fall alot. Thanx kyle

 

ya i made my own and i went with a cross tube in front of the headers, motor mount bolt, and the subframe bolts. mine cost me about 80 bucks i used 1-1/4 .120 wall chromoly for all the long tubes, i made the frame slider part out of 1-3/8 .120 wall chromoly, and the through tube out of 1" .120 chromoly. and i slugged the tubes where they bolt up 1/2" in the tube. i used 3/8 bolts for the subframe 4" and just 3/8 1-1/4" length for the cross tube. and made a 2-1/2" treaded slug for the bottom tube that i spot welded and welded the end. all tig welded of course.
heres some pics

 

you made that>? dam that **** is sweet

 

ya my bro anthony (catach42) is letting me take some measurements from his mxd... i should be starting that cage real soon.. i'll post up some progress pics.. i plan on arc welding it... i might try to tig it... i've only welded aluminum with tig so i'm not sure about the difference in steel with tig

 

hey you came up to nh to ride with use? right. if you need a hand just pm me i own a chassis shop so i have benders and a machine shop and my tig welder.

 

you have a machine shop!! sweet... i work in one but i need a bridgeport to work with i have a government job that would take only a few min...i have to mill something to size to use on my 12 bar... and i'll check out the mxd cage and that bender may come in handy

 

ya im going to ct this weekend to ride with carl and the connmen on saturday and sunday if your bikes together you should come riding and we could talk about the cage.

 

have we ridden together before?..

 

you go to that spot in mass off of 495 when the cops came when that kid on a r6 i think was smoking it up??

 

heres a buddy of mine subrame. He fabricated this for his r6 since the r6 subrame is so weak its one big peice..strong as shitttt