Application
CNC Tube Cutting for Race Car & Chassis Fabrication
A chassis is a few hundred notches that all have to be right. Cage builders have been doing that on a tube notcher and a belt sander for decades, and it works — until you need to build the same car twice, or five of them, on a deadline. The PD-10 turns your tube list into cut parts that fit the first time.
The Problem
What eats a chassis build
- Every notch dialed in on a notcher, test fit, sanded, test fit again — multiplied by every intersection in the cage.
- Compound angles at gusseted nodes where three tubes meet and nothing is square to anything.
- Gaps that get filled with weld instead of fit, which adds heat, distortion and weight where you cannot afford any of it.
- No way to repeat a build. The second car is as slow as the first because the knowledge lives in someone's hands.
- Fixture time lost to chasing tube length errors instead of setting geometry.
The Fix
How the PD-10 solves it
Notches at real compound angles
Tube-to-tube intersections are cut from geometry, including the awkward compound nodes, so the joint closes tight with a consistent gap for the weld.
Repeatable programs per chassis
Cut the car once, save the tube list, cut it again next season. Customer wants a revision? Edit the file, not the fixture.
Marking for assembly order
Engrave tube IDs so a full cage kit gets laid out on the table in build order instead of sorted by eye.
Cleaner joints, less heat
Tight fit means less filler and less time in the joint, which matters when distortion in a chassis is measured against a jig.
Material
Material you actually run
- Round DOM and chromoly cage tube in typical 1.25" to 2" sizes
- Square and rectangular tube for subframes, mounts and cradles
- Angle and channel for jig work, trailers and support structures
- Flat material up to 10" wide for tabs, gussets and brackets
- Capacity to 10" x 10" and 800 lbs for larger chassis and trailer work
Throughput & Labor
What This Actually Saves You
For chassis builders the win is fit quality and repeatability more than raw speed — though the notching hours go away too. Send us a tube list and we will cut sample nodes on a demo so you can put a gap gauge on them yourself.
FAQs
Questions From Shops Like Yours
Still Have Questions? Let's Talk.
Tell us what you're cutting and we'll put together a configuration and a real number — no runaround, no call center.