Here is the D1 regulations: minimum 6 point cage

1. Each car must be equipped with a six-point or better roll cage. Full front A pillar beams are required as well as door impact protection beams.

2. Functional tow hooks must be installed on both front and rear of vehicle

3. Roll cage must be welded or securely bolted and anchored. If roll cage is bolted then its must be securely reinforced with an anchor plate and backing plate sandwich on each side of the floor pan.

4. Roll cage may be placed in front or through the dashboard.

5. Roll cage tubing must be at a minimum of 1.25 inches OD tubing and no thinner than 0.098 wall mild steel or 1 .25x .083 Chromoly tubing.

RECOMMENDED ROLL CAGE
HIGH FRONT HOOP OPEN AND CLOSED, GT


that should let you be able to compete in just about any drift event you can think off... qualifiers, comps, champs, D1GP etc....

 

awesome thanks!!

 

First time competing and tandem?

 

yeah?? well ive done tandem on the street before..

 

street tandems = uber fail, for real, a small drift on a back road is one thing, but tandems? save that shit for the track...

contrary to popular belief, street racing is NOT cool...

 

Florida Drift Series follows Formula D rules. S&W race cars sells a drift spec 10 pt cage for $600

 

well yea i understand that but i never really knew about the track for a while i just started drifting at desoto this year lol in january i mean ive learned my lessions on street drifting and i dont race lol ive been drifting for quite some time now just like i said i never really knew anywhere else to go i didnt know about alot of places untill last year but i was still stupid and keept drifting on the streets and like we had some decent spots and stuff but alot of them just got over ran with kids who came out who wanted to try drifiting and got over rated... then cops kept showing up and then tickets and accidents and yeah it got bad and old very fast.. but past aside im on the track now and thats why im curious about a cage and thanks for the information...

 

cool deal man.... looks like your head's in the right spot, good luck with everything

 

haha yeah after all the tickets and hitting some mail boxes new years eve was the last street date for me... ive heard about desoto and its right down the road from me i just thought you needed all this stuff liek a cage and crap i never looked into it.. but i want to try and get into some drift competion this year i dont know where to look as far as where you go to qualify and what comps there are but im slowy working on getting a cage and a new DD to tow my s14 with aorund fla

 

i would say attend a bucn of events, and open practices, you don't even need a cage for those, just a helmet, and a fire extinguisher, save your cage money, pay some entry fees, learn how your car really handles on a track, cause on the track, you can reall feel free to throw your car around... no fear of cops, trees, mail boxes, etc... just the wall... other than that, the worst is cones, and those are nice and soft...

get good on the track, and then get your cage, ter tech will have thier qualifier next year, get some decent seat time on a closed course, then compete... you might think you're compitition ready cause you're "drifting" on the street with some other 240 guys doing controlled burnouts lol (that's what most people call drifting, noobs), but the track is a different animal....

get seat time, worry about a cage later bro, for an everyday event, you wont even need one...