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From: Tom Gentry <tgentry@execpc.com>
>>It may not come off, but will it collapse? That's the real threat in
rollovers. The roof stays attached, but the headroom's kind of short. Of
course, there's no guarantee that a fixed tin top won't collapse<<
>Exactly! What would lead one to believe that a fixed roof is any less
likely to collapse than a removable one?
Well, for starters, the fact that it's *part* of the bodyshell rather than
simply attached to it -- this spreads the load into the entire shell. While
it's not impossible to collapse a fixed roof, it's far less likely than
collapsing a less rigid removeable roof attached to the body with a
half-dozen or ten fasteners.
Jamie
'92 Prelude Si
Speed Demon Racing
http://www.mindspring.com/~jsculerati/sdr
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