Mr Morlock wrote:Just look at it- of course its not approved and it was not made by a professional. If you want a roll bar you pay the money for a certified product. Incidentally no amateur has any hope of designing their own roll bar and knowing how it will perform. No compromises on things like this- its not the 1950's.
I can tell it's not approved since it looks like Ray Charles built it (then had Stevie Wonder paint it), and yes, it looks very amateur (either fully home made, or a Japanese one that has then been modified at home)
The CAMS thing was more to explain how people often advertise bars as CAMS approved when they don't have any paperwork.
There are different requirements for rollbars/cages depending on the event they are to be used in, and this is where people tend to get mixed up.
For proper racing they need to be CAMS approved, so inspected, certified, given a serial number, and given a heap of paperwork to prove all the above was done. Bsaically proven that if the car turns over, it will keep you safe.
For a non competitive CAMS event, the cage simply needs to be deemed by whoever is scrutineering on the day that the cage won't make you any less safe than if it werent there at all. There's no stampings, no logbooks, just a guy who eyeballs it and says "yeah, probably fine"
The rollbar in my car is a Brown Davis, and when I purchased it they said there were two options, one was the rollbar with CAMS number and paperwork, and the other was the identical bar but without the paperwork.
In my case I decided against the paperwork, since I never intend to do any events that would require the bar to be proven as CAMS approved (or approvable)
In saying all that, the bar advertised above is rubbish.
It would probably be given the OK at a casual event run to CAMS rules (I've seen worse given the ok), so in that sense it would be "cams approved", but if you took it in for certification they would likely just bin the thing and start fresh.