Roll bar: Strength and Reinforcement

[skerocdriver@juno.com (Shawn C Meze)]

On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 21:02:37 -0500 "Dan Kraus" <dirtbike@warwick.net>
writes:
>    On the topic of  Strength and Reinforcement.....
>
>-Who on the list has a roll bar in the Scirocco?What is the overall
>consensus dealing with this mod?
>The point I'm getting at is: Worth $299 ?
>
>Dan Kraus :-)



Depending on how "in tune" you ass is with the chassis, it might only be
a good place to mount a video camera and/or have a good place to have the
harness go up and over.

When I installed my roll bar, I noticed a definate stiffness only in the
areas that it bolts to. IE, the front of the rear inner fender to just
behind the drivers seat. Chassis flex was limited to the rear of the
drivers seat to the front strut towers. (Yeah, I can actually feel that.)
I dont know how much this helped in the racing I do because of the added
weight but felt that chassis stiffness was a good thing and it was a
legal mod so it was worth it. 

Worth $299? Nope. It was worth $250 shipped!


Shawn Méze
86' Jetta GLi 8V     84' Scirocco 8V    88' Corvette -SS 30- 2001 SDR
Solo2 Champion
82' Scirocco GTi -FSP 54-     79' "Project FSP Scirocco"
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