I m cutting out our 8 point 1 3 4 roll bar out of the 80 camaro.
Roll cage chromoly or mild steel.
Chromoloy tubing is made from a family of low alloy steels that contain chromium and molybdenum sae 4130 or 4140 along with the iron carbon and other elements.
A mild steel roll cage.
The dragsters usually have to be backhalved after so many laps.
If it s chromoly then i just have to replace a couple of struts and add more to my roll cage to bring it to specs.
As for the price it depends on who build the cage for you.
It s nice but not the nicest i ve seen.
Grinding and plating of the welds is prohibited so keep these points in mind if you re a do it yourselfer.
Cage mild steel vs.
Crome molly i have mild steel in my own car and all the dragsters are 4130 molly.
I need to put in a 8 50 cert.
Had i to do it over again i would still go with mild steel.
Write or wrong thinking.
For 10 second and slower cars that only need roll bars the size minimum is 1 3 4 o d.
If anyone has a viable answer please let me know.
My hp book on metal working and fabrication said its not good to use chromoly for making roll cages as when its involved in an impact it can break off into a sharp point.
X 118 mild steel or 083 4130 chromoly tubing so this is another aspect to take into play when building or expanding a roll cage as your vehicle gets faster.
The tubing size requirement on 8 50 cages are 1 5 8 inch x 118 inch mild steel or 083 inch chromoly.
The guy that caged my aspen told me the civic eg roll cage uk tube by tube.
While you probably won t stress them out like we do i have seen them break while riding in the trailer.
The chromium adds strength hardenability and a level of corrosion resistance to mild carbon steel though chromoly is not as corrosion resistant as stainless steel.
I thought i wanted a chromoly cage for a weight savings but now thinking about mild steel.
I have a dragster frame and i don t know what it is made of.
I know that the cm is lighter than mild steel of the same diameter but harder to.
If it is mild steel then i have to rebuild the whole thing.
Compared to that the cost of upgrading mild steel dom tubing to chromoly isn t that big of a deal cline says.
The only real reason to use chromoly in this application is a weight savings.
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Roll cage question chromoly vs mild steel.
If the budget allows it and there is time cline always prefers to tig weld a cage.
I bought a mild steel 10 point cage from s w racecars.
This would be in a 2nd about bolt in cages weld in cages roll on another forum the question of cost and weight came up over a chromoly rollcage vs.
They said it was about 40 lbs.
That s not alot in my opinion.
