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No matter how tight your strapped in in a serious collision with something hard the cage bars might bend towards you helmet always

Yep, lots of variables, type of seats, seat material, type of straps, 4 point, 6 point etc, then of course they have to be correctly fitted to the car in the 1st place. Size and height of driver. Some tall people find their heads are VERY close to the cage! I think on balance it's fair to say, if you have a full cage, best to wear a helmet. I may even start following my own advice! 😂 I have a lovely, brand spanking new carbon lid, so beautiful I left it in its box for the last 3 years, too scared to scratch it 😬 I think I will be wearing that soon.

Given I hill climb and sprint more than going to Sainsbury's I still think a full cage is better for me.

A mate of mine living in Greece crashed his Westie into a lemon tree. He's still bitter and twisted 🍋 I'll get my coat.......

Hi All done, thank you. Gary

In the absence of the real thing, the postman bought this the other day. Obviously it’s the Caterham kit, but as it’s yellow and black I had to have it. Rejigged it so the exhaust exits on the correct side (Zetec) and lost all the Caterham badging and I’ll probably make a windscreen for it, but it’s pretty close to what we’ll be driving in a couple of weeks (hopefully!)

Yeah definitely, you will be wearing a helmet anyway. I love my full cage. My first ever kit alongside my current 4th kit. The Westfield definitely feels safer 😂

Do not forget those need to be replaced more often, as being smaller the filtrating material get clogged up faster.

Hi steve, Thanks for that. £1500 ono. Serious offers considered. Collection Attleborough, norfolk or stowmarket, suffolk

Do you have a price in mind? Not for me but I'm sure others will ask.

Also, one other often misunderstood bit of cages. In general, the type of padding sold to go on the roll bar tubes by specialists motor sport supply places, is NOT to directly protect your (bare) head!* Its intended to reduce the initial impact of your helmeted head, hitting a tube, so the helmet doesn’t get wiped out on the first blow, and continue to give some protection as you’re bounced around etc, during a crash. *I have in the past, seen padding advertised as protecting you without a helmet. Not sure how much I’d trust it though, and it was much bulkier and way more expensive. But like all these things, everyone uses their car slightly differently, and everyone has to do their own mental risk/reward calculation, and do what they feel comfortable with.

Nobody straps in that tight in a road car though, that's the trouble. In fact at track days I've never seen anyone strap in that tight either. Even strapped in well you'd be surprised how much you get thrown around in a crash, it's absolutely violent as hell.

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That’s true to a point, but if you’ve ever been properly strapped into a race car by the pit crew, it would shock you just how tight “tightly strapped in” means. I doubt any owners will strap themselves in that tight while using on the road. Also, keep in mind, with some belts, the material they’re made of is able to stretch/deform somewhat to help absorb some of the initial shock of a bad impact.

You know how Westfields accelerate like a missile and go round corners like they're on rails? Kinda the opposite of that. Still a hoot though.