Per Schroeder writes:
<<<They're pretty easy to make. Take 3 feet or so of 1.5" (.120 wall) DOM
steel
rollbar tubing....and 2 feet of 1.75" tubing (.120 wall)....weld a 3" x 5"
(or so) steel plate on either end...and drill a hole in each plate to mount
to your upper seat belt mounts. Make sure that the seat belt bolt still
securely threads into its mounting lug on the Bpillar.
A piece of 1.5" tubing will slide in and out of a 1.75 (.120 wall) tube very
snugly....and if the tubing is crappy (i.d. out of round), it'll actually
bind a little....
I actually got the idea from Bob Tunnell...but thanks for the
acknowledgement
Arthur.....>>>
This sounds like a fairly good solution given the old rule but it is still
dependent on how well you attach it to the B-Pillar. I would suggest you
modify the end plates so that they wrap around the back side of the
B-Pillar. That way you need to displace the B-Pillar in order for the bar to
go forward. And now that the rules have apparently been changed to allow it
to be non-collapsing it would seem that using a single piece of roll bar
tubing would be preferable.
Paul Foster
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