[Tigers] To roll bar or not to roll bar, that is the question...

[Chris Thompson]

My car came with the Autopower 4 pt bar installed by the PO.  It seems 
to be a sturdy enough bar, and is mounted with steel reinforcing plates 
below the deck.  But I believe it is marketed as a "show bar", as in 
don't count on it to help any.

I drove the car to the track one day, and just for grins had tech 
inspection approve the car.  It wouldn't pass.  But the only problem was 
the *height* of the roll bar, not its construction.  With my helmet on, 
my head was higher than the roll bar.  Have a higher bar and of course 
you wouldn't be able to put up the top.....

michael king wrote:
> The biggest issue i have witt the bars.. is they are likely to cause more
> damage in rela life sitations. I'm 183cm tall.. so sit abobe the screen. I
> have a CAT bar in the car.. and my head can touch the horizontla bar.. i
> havent got it padded.. i figure im more liekly to get rear ended on the
> street than roll it.. and if i get rear ended i am gogint o smack my head
> into that bar.
>
> On the plus side.. the roll bars to stiffen the hell out of the car.