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Roll bar installed

Postby Fatty » Sun Jul 29, 2007 8:26 pm

spent a few hours today fitting this to the car. big thanks to phil / manga-blue who actually did most of the hard work. got this from RobE here on the forum, very happy with the price and the quality of the bar. he did a great job wrapping it up and freighting it to me too, no scratches or anything, it looks brand new! it is similar to the brown davis but has an extra bar across the bottom between the 2 towers. it also has a camera mount.

i had to remove my rear deck speakers, as they sat too high and would foul the bottom bar. so i'll need to get a new carpet as it looks kinda fugly at the moment... but the car feels more taught and rigid and a lot of the old squeeks and rattles have dissapeared.

after reading about bigdog's recent accident, i am very happy to have the added safety of a rollbar on my car now.

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oh and one more thing, i got a free windblocker as part of the deal! the plastic windown now doesn't sit flat, it sits up against the bar and actually does a pretty good job as a windblocker! excellent :mrgreen:
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Postby Craig » Sun Jul 29, 2007 9:19 pm

Car needs a wash! :P :mrgreen: :lol:
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Postby Fatty » Sun Jul 29, 2007 9:22 pm

NO sh*t CRAIG ! :lol: :lol:
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Postby fastfreddygassit » Sun Jul 29, 2007 10:12 pm

Looks great James! Nice job... :mrgreen:

so...when are you going to fit the RB type 1 bar?
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Postby Ajay » Sun Jul 29, 2007 10:13 pm

looks Great!... im in the process of getting a BD bar sometime soon :D
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Postby Craig » Sun Jul 29, 2007 10:33 pm

Fatty wrote:NO sh*t CRAIG ! :lol: :lol:


Nope...just looks like dirt! :lol:
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Postby StanTheMan » Sun Jul 29, 2007 10:36 pm

Craig wrote:
Fatty wrote:NO sh*t CRAIG ! :lol: :lol:


Nope...just looks like dirt! :lol:



to me....it looks like bird poo on the boot. :lol: :P

nice one Fatty. Is that a camera bracket?
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Postby Craig » Sun Jul 29, 2007 10:38 pm

:lol:
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Postby Fatty » Mon Jul 30, 2007 12:58 am

hahaha, yes that is bird sh*t on the boot, and yes that is a camera bracket. shame i don't have a video camera eh ? :mrgreen:

fastfreddy, i have a long \" to do\" list, and the RB nose is at the 2nd bottom of the list. but , one day, it will be done. but yeah at the moment it is just gathering dust in the corner of the shed.
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Postby Andy Wana » Mon Jul 30, 2007 1:25 am

mx5_boy wrote:looks Great!... im in the process of getting a BD bar sometime soon :D


You might like to join in the 2nd round of BD roll bar group that I am organising ...
Only 1 more person needed to get it going ... :D
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Postby Reddie to cruise » Wed Aug 01, 2007 7:52 pm

Looks good James. Looking at the height I'd say no hope for a hardtop.
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Postby StanTheMan » Wed Aug 01, 2007 8:20 pm

Mine fits under the hard top. Just depends if Mr Brown Davies got his measurements correct.
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Postby Fatty » Wed Aug 01, 2007 8:30 pm

yeah thought so reddie.
stm - mine's not a brown davis. it sits a bit further back so yeah, won't fit a hardtop. manga-blue thought that it'd be possible to tilt it forward tho, by eg by putting some spacers under the bar at the back.

seeing as how i don't have a hard top this is all academic at the moment anyway... i'd like to get one in future tho maybe.
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Postby StanTheMan » Wed Aug 01, 2007 8:43 pm

right..... :shock:

Please consider my above comments as .....errr....retracted. :oops:
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Postby Andy Wana » Thu Aug 02, 2007 10:03 am

Guys and girls, I am in the process of getting some EPDM compound tubes for the upcoming BD rollbar installation at MX5Mania.
I need the forum's help to determine the diameter of the rollbar steel tubing (the black powdercoated steel bar variety)
Just want to double check with Josh's figure of 1.75\" (45mm).

I came across a tube sample with the following sizes:

Inside diameter - 45mm (1.75\")
Outside diameter - 58mm
Wall thickness - 6.5mm (they are spongy, so they should compress under a hard/soft top)

This EPDM compound is the stuff they use on cars/trucks/boats trimmings.
Resistant to ozone, UV (won't discolour), flex cracking and has good memory retention (will spring back to shape after compression).

If this stuff is good, maybe a group buy is in order?
Comes in 2m long tubes that you can cut to size.
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