Oz Striker's Type S

[Oz Striker]

Chrome moly is cheaper than mild steel

Say what?! Haha everyone I've talked to has said it was more expensive. Is it cheaper to buy the actual material because you can buy smaller diameter piping with smaller wall width, but just more expensive overall because it's harder to work with and therefore requires more labour to install?

[Symphorced]

Thanks man! yep, have already signed up for the next tampered day on the 6th of November which is Melbourne cup day, hopefully everything is ready by then!

How's your EP3 going? Are you ready for another track day yet?

Nice! I'll see you up there on Cup Day. I have a few friends attending so will be there to spectate.

I'm entered into the EXE Day later this month. Will be tracking if my new wheels get here on time. Fingers crossed haha.

[Oz Striker]

Nice! I'll see you up there on Cup Day. I have a few friends attending so will be there to spectate.

I'm entered into the EXE Day later this month. Will be tracking if my new wheels get here on time. Fingers crossed haha.

Cool will see you then! was hoping to get to the EXE day to spectate as I didn't get in but looks like I'll have to work unfortunately.

It sucks waiting for parts to arrive when you need them! Haha where are you buying them from? Pretty sure I remember what you were getting

[Oz Striker]

Update

Time for an update guys!

After de-registering the DC5, i had initially decided to buy another Honda for a daily as i was missing driving mine so much, but i have just landed a new job at a Toyota dealership which will grant me a company car in a few months so I've decided not to buy another car just yet. I'm sure i will get another Honda one day though!

Anyway onto the car in question. Dad and I have been hard at work preparing for the next track day, mainly getting the roll cage sorted. I ordered some CDS (cold drawn seamless pipe, made in Germany and its not cheap!) and we started work on it from about 3pm yesterday and we also worked all day on it today. Its very hard work getting everything even on both sides with the bends and angles but for two people building their first cage i think we are doing a great job!!! before anyone asks, the windows are card boarded up to avoid sparks coming into contact with them, because that would destroy them.

We started yesterday with the main hoop





Then we made up the rear angled pieces and also the two main front pieces

















Dad made these up at work as a base for each point. He was very surprised at how thing the floor pan was, "it's like bloody tissue paper" he said lol



Everything has just been tacked in right now, we still have to do the horizontal roof bar, the cross in the roof, the cross in the main hoop, the door crosses, the harness bar and a rear strut bar. But they are basically all straight pieces so it wont be nearly as hard as what we did today! The bars that run along the door/roof were extremely hard to get right as they are angled vertically and horizontally but we got there in the end. Everything will be Mig welded in on Wednesday, and I'm considering painting it on the weekend, i"m thinking of just doing it black or silver, but cages do look great in different colours, not sure whether a brightly coloured one will look too over the top though, was thinking that a black seat, black harness and black cage it might look too.......well black lol thoughts?

I will have some more parts arriving during the week and i'll update after the progress on Wednesday, will need to give the car a thorough clean too, hopefully everything goes to plan so we are ready for Winton the following Tuesday! I think its been about a month now so i cant wait to drive the car again!!!!!!

[Symphorced]

So much win.

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[Jax-DC5R]

holy shit! going to be one hell of a track car bro

[Timmy_B]

Love it. Massive job well done.

Colour however, there is a BMW M3 in USA with an orange cage, looks so good.
Just pick a colour that you like.

[Shakeel]

Great job on the cage Ryan and Dad!

[Oz Striker]

Thanks for the comments guys!

Have also seen a nice orange cage in a DC5 Timmy and it also looks awesome, but I'm not sure it will suit my car. I'm now thinking of doing it red, as I have a few red things on the car like the H emblems, and ClubITR stickers. I think I'll try and keep the same red/grey combination throughout the car so it has a bit of a theme about it

[ChargeR]

Good looking cage Ryan, really tight to the A and B pillars! Hopefully see you up at Winton on cup day.

[Oz Striker]

Good looking cage Ryan, really tight to the A and B pillars! Hopefully see you up at Winton on cup day.

Thanks Tom! Yeah that was the main aim, and we are also really happy with how symmetrical it is too, no more than a few mm out at most points. Yep I'm sure I'll be there so will see you then!

[felixR]

Thanks for the comments guys!

Have also seen a nice orange cage in a DC5 Timmy and it also looks awesome, but I'm not sure it will suit my car. I'm now thinking of doing it red, as I have a few red things on the car like the H emblems, and ClubITR stickers. I think I'll try and keep the same red/grey combination throughout the car so it has a bit of a theme about it

red/grey would look good! Like a Porsche GT3 RS.

[Oz Striker]

red/grey would look good! Like a Porsche GT3 RS.

Yeah I think so too Felix Wish it was a GT3 RS!

[rookie]

Awesome work man that roll cage looks great! Must have some pretty sweet tools to do all the bending on the tubes.

[Oz Striker]

Awesome work man that roll cage looks great! Must have some pretty sweet tools to do all the bending on the tubes.

Thanks all it took was a simple pipe bender worth about $150 and a lot of patience! the trick was getting the right size die for the right size pipe so we didn't damage or deform it as we bent it. Was hard work as it's a hydraulic bender which means you have to pump it by hand lol