I picked up my 914 today, it's been at Tony's shop, TC Design for a few months now, a combination of me not really needing the car due to not having a motor and him knowing that and being busy...worked out great for me since it cleared up valuable space in my garage

adf

asdf

adfw

last picture before I take it home......so, should I challange Dave Darling to see who will have a running car sooner

notice no engine or transmission in my car.........

Thats a nice cage!!!

I wish I could afford something like that.

Good luck getting it running before WCC!!

Andrew

Looks really good! Tony's designs keep evolving I see. It looks very easy to live with - everything is out of the way. Nice.

-Ben M.

you will be me for sure! I don't even have floors anymore!

and the triangles make it stonger!
Nice looking cage!

damn- that's nice. gots to get me some of that before I kill myself with 300hp.

what do people do about painting the cage once installed? do you just leave it rusty?

just mask as much off as you can, and paint. Maybe use some cardboard to cover some areas so you don't get overspray

wouldn't it be easier to prepare/paint it before installing (minus the welds of course) and then touch up those spots later? I don't see how you can hit a lot of areas, especially up against the firewall.

Por-15 makes a colored brush on product that flows smooth and dries rock solid Never used it, just heard about it.

I spray painted my last one with the windows out of the car. I covered fairly well. hardest part was on the knee bar by the lower dash pad (which was still there and no longer a removeable part).

sm

That's a good looking cage.
I hope you never have to find out how well it works.

we rough up and prep the bars.... degrease, scotchbrite, then primer... then prep the ends for welding... open the root of the joint etc..

after welding, clean the welded area.... and prime paint the whole shebang

This is something I do for some customers and it adds at least $400 to the finished cost. The end result is much better than painting afterwards, but it's not cheap.

It shouldn't be too hard to paint at all, it is not that close to the firewall......

I'll just use a rattle can or if I get really ambitious, I could break out my airbrush or detail paint gun

Man that cage is sweet.
I wish I could buy that in a kit form so I could weld it together here in my own shop.
Beautiful,just plain beautiful.
I swear he oughta make a broke down cage and sell'em in kit form for us guys back east.
Ron

You've got Chris back there that does killer work as well from what I understand.........

As a footnote, if you want Tony to do a cage for you then you need to deliver the car pretty much like Mueller's with the interior gutted. He's too busy to do interior R&R, especially on 30 year old cars with 30 year old fasteners, wiring, PO screwups, etc.

What do you have to pull?

How much does it cost?

Probably should pull all the shit out - take it to get a cage and then take it straight to the paint shop eh?

Is that cage built for any particular race series (SCCA, PCA, POC, etc.)?
Just to stiffen the car for the street?

Thanks,
Don

i sprayed Metal-Ready on mine first, then washed it off with water, then brushed on POR-15 ...

Andy

yes, he builds them to your specs, mine is PCA and SCCA legal (not sure about POC) and i assume so is muellers ...

Andy

oh, and i didn't miss a single spot !

it's easy with a brush, there's enough room around the tubing to get the paint on with a brush anywhere ...

Andy

actually it might not be....been having some issues with a cage in a civic del sol......a cage that doesn't have stantions running to the rear supension mounts (ie through the back window in a del sol or 914) is required to have a petty bar. which i'm trying to avoid, so i can keep a passenger seat.

You can keep the passenger seat with a petty bar, you just won't have too many people wanting to be passengers

Andy's and Mike's would need petty bars to be legal. However these can easily be added at a later date IF they do actually go wheel-to-wheel racing. Both cars are primarily driven on the street and I will NOT build a cage with a petty bar that is mainly driven on the street.

-tony

fiid, by stripped I mean it should look like mike's car, except that you can still leave the dash in, but the dash PADS (upper and lower) need to be removed.

I "think" Andy's cage is made from heavier wall tubing due to him wanting to go with a big /6 in the future...

for certain classes, I'd have to stick with the /4 or go with a small /6 or go on a crazy diet to keep the car at the weight limit for my cage.....

after my cage, it seems like Tony will not touch a 914 for a cage unless the interior is totally stripped like mine was..he is too busy to deal with the removal of everything, of course for a price, I'm sure he could be swayed into it :0

as mentioned in another post, the price for the raw material is going up at an alarming rate, I wouldn't wait too long to get a cage since it seems the price is only going to go up.........

yes, the petty bar is required in some classes, I don't plan on running with the SCCA, so I opted not to get the petty bar........my car is for street, auto-x and the occasional track day



I thought those are for handcuffs

that's what i tought ...

what about a removeable petty bar?
Andy

Mike,
congrats on getting the 914 back with the cage. That's cool

You only need the petty bar if you dont run the rear bars coming off the main hoop.

Good job as usual "T". Our nightmare gets delivered tomorrow. I wish I had a few more lined up for you.. but things have really nose dived since the beginning of the year as far as service work goes (for us)


B

The nightmare is really going away!!!!!

Once gone we need to go , then , then , then , then , then

-tony

B, you should stop by next week. I will be installing a clubsport cage in a 996 GT3 and a custom 996 cage.

-tony (going back to working on the Ruf R-turbo, no Terrence you can't get a ride)

weak! I'll just come bother you and slow your working speed down.

I maybe available for vollunteer help when I get laid off in a couple of weeks.

We will celebrate "T"..promise.. dinner/lunch something. I have been welding for 3 days straight on a crunched from behind 914... welding skills coming along nicely..LOL

B