But it’s the stupid HP wars that brought us cheap ass sporty/sports cars with high horsepower.

Come on guys, it’s time to let it go already.

😂😂😂

Yeah but it was probably written sincerely, not with cynical, trashy, clickbait, edgelord intent.

They always are. I blame harbor freight welding machines giving people the unfounded confidence in their abilities to do things with the cheapest metal they can find.

If you look at that guys build, you can see he used like 1.25" tubing, and betting real thin wall. He made the “cage” look cool, but there was no triangulation or proper cage design in his build. SO he cut all the strength out and didnt add any of it back in with his “exoskeleton”.

Jalopnik only glorifies and encourages these type of builds BEFORE they kill someone. Afterwards, "what was this idiot thinking?" 

Man, my enormous balls of steel are too large to fit in puny meatsacks and I still have concerns about this cage design.

If you’re going to go to all that trouble why not do it right? Doesn’t even take that much more cost/effort.

It looks to me like every tube is under-spec and not really properly supported. It’s like he just grafted the STI drivetrain onto a yard kart. He even took the time to bend stuff that absolutely didn’t even need to be bent. Jeebus knows how he’s actually reacting the suspension loads into that frame.

Even neglecting…

The un-noded bends in the passenger compartment don’t give me warm feelings. If the bars in the passenger area where the same diameter as the rear, had an anti-intrusing bar to protect from side impact (shoulder to footwell) and noded, like the rear, this could be safe...ish. Assuming they used the right wall…

Terrifying is the word. Didnt some guy kill himself recently in something eerily resembling this? ... https://jalopnik.com/man-dies-after-crash-in-home-built-honda-civic-based-ka-1825681533

“Cars are supposed to keep all four wheels on the ground.”

They are? Shit.
Is this some sort of unwritten rule or something?

My story - when it’s running, the wheels are in the air, when it’s not running, it’s on axle stands, so the wheels are in the air:

It’s making this face as it remembers how much it weighs.

Well it wasn’t me behind the wheel, but I was standing 20 feet away from the car when it came to a stop. Some friends and I had a Mercury Topaz “woods beater” that we uh, beat on in the woods like a forsaken rally car. One nice summer day, a couple of kids who I don’t even think were 16 took it for a spin. We were…

Nobody here is criticizing him for trying it they’re criticizing him for trying it without any consideration for his own or other’s safety. He describes almost killing himself or others more than once.

I can back that. Done right, it’s absolutely cool and surprisingly functional. Done like this? Nope. That was a half-baked and very dangerous attempt.  

I’m usually fascinated by off the wall projects but... Thus was dumb. No amount of “money, a welder, and knowledge” will save you from decisions like this. If you have to take dangerous shortcuts to make something work, it’s time to stop.

There are cheaper ways to learn how suspension geometry works. This wasn’t a…

The phrase “negative camber issues that he tried fixing with new spacer plates that had holes drilled at an angle” gave me literal chills. WTF was he thinking?

If you’re going to modify your suspension, you’ve got to understand how it will change your car’s behavior. Because this kind of stuff could get you killed.