3/10/2024 0 Comments 2002 mr2 spyder hardtop![]() I did not use the lexan that came with it because I wanted tinted lexan, the lexan that came with it was not perfectly cut and only 2mm thick, the replacement was 1/8" (3mm). Aftermarket wet carbon parts usually have failing clear within a year if left in the sun. It is lighter than the carbon fiber version because like almost all carbon fiber body parts, its fiberglass with one sheet of carbon over it. it weights 18lbs with window and brackets and weather strip. ![]() Personally, I would avoid most style bars as they serve no purpose other than style.I shared my install of the VIS fiberglass top on the FB group. Lastly, if the impact forces are high enough that any bar could bend far enough to trap you in the car, a bent "style bar" may be the least of your concerns. Third, there have been very few, if any, credible reports of actual mousetrapping, even with style bars ( I am sure someone will dig up an exception). Windshields do bend back, but the handful of posts on forums such as this one with rollover pictures of convertibles like Spyders and Miatas show the windshield frames typically do very well as a "roll bar" It has no diagonal bracing (other than the glass itself), and no bracing, just the frame. Second, any rollover also has the same potential with the windshield bending back over the driver. While it comes up a lot, a little research shows a couple facts.įirst, rollovers on the street are very rare. Posts on this topic will inevitably bring up "mousetrapping", which is a concept that an unbraced bar can move forward and trap the passengers in the seats like a mousetrap. It works fine with the soft top and stock storage bins. I didn't add it for rollover protection, but for more bracing. But the mounting is very sturdy, unlike a lot of style bars that have no bracing at all. I have an Autopower rollbar that is structural and added a lot of stiffness and is well built, but they call it a "style bar", probably for legal reasons as it doesn't have any diagonal braces and isn't approved for racing. A roll bar is designed to enhance structural integrity and add safety in a rollover. At least that bar is approved through SCCA, so you can use it should you ever decide one day to attend an auto-x or HPDE event.Īre you looking for a "style bar" or a "roll bar"? A style bar looks like it might do something in a roll over, but probably won't, at at least nothing good. The Techno Pro-Spirits bar will not protect you during an impact or roll over.īuy the Hard Dog bar if you want a rollbar. There are no extra bars to support the main hoop, nor is there any triangulation in the design. Rollcages work by displacing the load of the impact through the many supporting bars that make up the cage, they are also reinforced through triangulating the design. ![]() I've defended many Japanese bolt in rollcages in the past, but I will not, and cannot defend the Techno Pro-Spirits roll bar. These are the same dudes (Japanese people in general) who think it's a great idea to go wheel to wheel racing with their "fuel cell" being a lawn mower fuel tank (just the bare tank, no bladder or impact protective box) relocated to where the passenger seat would be, with the battery (no box, just a bare battery with a tie down mounted to it by drilling some holes in the floor pan) relocated right next to it. Unless it's a pro race (I'm talking about ones that go by FIA regulations, and not JAF), there are damn near zero regulations governing car modifications on Japanese race tracks. Click to expand.That doesn't mean a thing.
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