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Thanks! I'll be on the lookout for some after-market rollbars then :yesnodsolsticeman said:a rollover is not so rare as you think - the corvette has a rather high rollover rate despite it's stability.
I'm with you on that one. I'd want roll bar for street use. There was an earlier discussion about roll bars, but most people were talking about roll bar for racing.mceb said:Do you think it will even be possible to add an after-market roll bar with the way Solstice is designed (flush right up to the cabin).
You don't want Santa to be leaving that Nomex suit under your tree then?DreamerDave said:...I'll be getting something a whole lot stronger than the "style bars" I had planned on putting in the Solstice. But I think it might be a little overboard with helmet and 5 point harness for the street.
We discussed it a while back but couldn't make much out of it (someone correct me if my memory is off).bigd said:What do you think is under that M-shaped cover that's behind the seats?
I had speculated it was a roll bar, but pretty much everyone else thought it was just a non-load bearing support for the chasis.bigd said:What do you think is under that M-shaped cover that's behind the seats?
This seemed to be the consensus on the forum. That it was a structural element to the vehicle, but was not actually a roll bar. It sits down in the car for starters, and to offer good protection it would need to raise above the seat headrests. Also, look how it is attached. It just seems to be sitting on a flat piece of steel without being attached directly to the frame structure of the vehicle. That folded steel certainly is not going to be strong enough to support the vehicle’s weight on a rollover.brentil said:I had speculated it was a roll bar, but pretty much everyone else thought it was just a non-load bearing support for the chasis.