The ChumpCar endurance racing series requires a full roll cage, not just a roll bar. We installed a Hard Dog for our initial track outing, but now it was time to get serious.
We had a few choices regarding cages for our Sunburst Yellow 1992 Mazda Miata: build from scratch, visit a custom shop, or order a pre-bent kit. We installed an SBox Engineering roll cage in our B Spec Ford Fiesta and came away very, very impressed.
This firm also makes a pre-bent cage for the Miata that’s sold under the MiataCage label. As an added bonus, going with a pre-bent kit means we wouldn’t need to tow our car to a custom shop and either wait while the work is done or have to make a return trip.
MiataCage has been offering Miata roll cages for more than a decade, complete with CNC pre-bent tubes and—here’s the kicker—custom cut perches. This turns a custom fabrication exercise more or less into a weld-together project.
The standard MiataCages kit features .095-inch DOM tubing and retails for $965. They also offer a LeMons-legal kit that uses .120-inch wall tubing. (We ordered the beefier kit.)
This isn’t a bare-bones cage, either, In addition to the boxed landing perches the MiataCage kit features NASCAR-style door bars, gussets and a kill switch plate. Some of the tubes come pre-notched, too.
Before we could install the new cage, we first needed to unbolt and remove our roll bar. We also needed to unpack the MiataCage kit. It comes in one 100-pound box that is UPSable.
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