[DeTomaso] roll bar /roll cage question

[Brian Hill]

Please keep us updated on your search.  After seeing some images of a wrecked Pantera,
I too am convinced that I should be looking at this also.  
Best regards,
Brian




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From: boyd casey <boyd411 at gmail.com>
To: Rod Kunishige <rkunishige at hotmail.com>
Cc: DeTomaso List Forum Posting <detomaso at realbig.com>
Sent: Wed, March 24, 2010 9:27:24 PM
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] roll bar /roll cage question

Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately Dick Drenski has stopped making cages .
His would have been my first choice. I have a friend in my local car club
who is a CAD expert and he says he can fabricate a cage. He is not really a
Pantera guy though. I would rather have someone that has experience with
Panteras or a pattern to work from.. I got some information on Kirk Evans
bulk head reduction kit and now understand how to implement the
modifications to flatten the firewall and how to incorporate the changes
into a roll cage design. Now all I need is to find someone with a roll cage
design.
Boyd

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 9:02 PM, Rod Kunishige <rkunishige at hotmail.com>wrote:

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> Boyd,
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> Vendors do offer good cages and I bought a bolt-in one from Dick Drenski.
> My intent is not to remove it.  It does have a side impact bar.  I am very
> aware of the need to remove the access door and vendors do offer excellent
> kits for this purpose.
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> My finances restrict my purchases, and so, I fashioned a modification of
> Jack DeRyke’s design to allow access without the removal of the entire
> cover.  Here, I eliminated the fiberglass bubble so as to be able to
> easily remove the steel door.  My original idea was to gain some needed
> room for my wife’s seat back but the Drenski design has a high cross bar
> that follows the top arch with plenty of room for the steel door removal.
> Thus I need not remove the cage.
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> For more on the bulkhead mod see Tech Zone at http://ocpanteras.com/.  Also
> check the Newsletter section for Oct 2006 and Jun 2006 newsletters.
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> A short article appears in the Aug 2009 on my cage in the same site.
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> POCA.com has these in our Club section under Team Pantera of Orange County
> chapter’s newsletters.  Check out the Tech section there too.
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> Your best bet is with the vendors.
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> Good luck,
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> Rod Kunishige
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