derf
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| posted on 6/5/04 at 11:48 AM |
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Roll bar height and angles (from chassis)
I am going to get my roll bar bent tommorow, and am kinda unshure about the specs I should give the shop. It will be a bolt in affair, so I really
dont have to worry about it being to small or too big, I plant to have a 2nd one made for racing. I want something that looks good.
1. How tall from from the chassis should it be?
2. Also I dont want it to be straight up and down, what angle should the vertical bars sit at?
[Edited on 6/5/04 by derf]
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twentyover
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| posted on 12/5/04 at 08:01 PM |
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Maybe try to match the angle if the windscreen? for aesthetics, then have braces run down to the floor of the boot (or trunk as we call them in the
US). The angle may be too steep to reach the flor of the boot, so pick up the verticals in the rear skin and triangulate the kink that occurs where
the support meets the vertical
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derf
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| posted on 13/5/04 at 12:22 PM |
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Too late, I went to get it bent, and took a good guestimation. I needed something structural, that will meet NHRA regs (which are stricter than
SCCA's), so I got the pipe bent, it will sit about 6 inches above my head, it doesnt look that great, but if I have a taller person in the
passenger seat it doesnt look that bad, plus the seat will be mounted about an inch higer than where it sits now. The roll bar has to be 2 inches
above my helmut, so my guesstimation was almost dead on. It will be bolt in so I will be able to change to a different style roll bar if I want to.
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derf
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| posted on 13/5/04 at 12:23 PM |
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Oh yeh, and a boot is something I wear on my foot, cars and elephants have trunks.
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