alba_banshee Posted May 10, 2004 Report Posted May 10, 2004 My friend just picked up an f-150 that's set up for offroad but it lacks a roll cage. Can anyone give me some info on building one. Looking for info on tube size and wall thickness. Also general design and layout. Quote
alba_banshee Posted May 11, 2004 Author Report Posted May 11, 2004 Has anyone built any kind of a roll cage? Any information will help, or maybe a website you know of. Quote
Dune Ratt Posted May 11, 2004 Report Posted May 11, 2004 Check around on the net for the Score Truck rules and regs. F150 are very popular and the guidlines set by score truck are used in many competitive racing regs. If a cage is good enough to handle 80mph through the desert then it should hold up to day to day truama! Quote
evil Posted May 11, 2004 Report Posted May 11, 2004 hey alba, shoot me a pm as to where i can reach you at and we can go over a few things on this truck. ill leave it at that for now but i have all the info you need and want to know about caging a truck for off road racing, rock crawling or anything. later Quote
CP5899 Posted May 13, 2004 Report Posted May 13, 2004 What are you building the cage for? If its for drag then I have seen a few done. I have been needing to put one in my twin turbo lightning so they will let me run at the track, but I like having it look like a sleeper on the street. I also don't want two kicker bars coming out of my back window. I do have some pics of cages in the trucks if you are interested though. Craig Quote
alba_banshee Posted May 13, 2004 Author Report Posted May 13, 2004 I'm building it for off road use. We want to take it out to glamis and pismo. Someday we want to put a race team together and race desert. Quote
CP5899 Posted May 13, 2004 Report Posted May 13, 2004 I don't know anything about desert racing cages. Here is a link....I couldn't get the pics to work. http://www.nloc.net/forum/showthread.php?s...light=roll+cage Just scroll down and you will see the pics. It might give you an idea for what you need to do....or not...LOL Let me know if I can you out at all. Craig Quote
evil Posted May 13, 2004 Report Posted May 13, 2004 alba, some links to get you rolling http://www.advanceoffroad.com/index1.html http://www.mcneiloff-road.com/home.html cant forget www.desertrides.com or www.prerunners.net hmmm i got alot more but im having a serious brain fade Quote
evil Posted May 14, 2004 Report Posted May 14, 2004 heres some pics of friends trucks, this ones donnies and its almost done. built for nothing but going fast and launching the shit out of it. Quote
evil Posted May 14, 2004 Report Posted May 14, 2004 (edited) shot of the back Edited May 14, 2004 by evil Quote
evil Posted May 14, 2004 Report Posted May 14, 2004 inside where the kicker bars connect to the main hoop Quote
evil Posted May 14, 2004 Report Posted May 14, 2004 keep in mind donny is a simple guy that just wanted to run a straight cage on the street, so they cut apart the stock bed and hung the panels on it to make it look halk way street legal. ill get a pic of it when its complete and he has the tires mounted on the back with everything painted. the truck really looks good and functions well when it was cycled through. Quote
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