Question Interior R52 Convertible Most liked posts in thread: Vert Roll Bar

The guy with the GP open top has that bar that he fitted a two piece top to and would assume it was a custom fabrication. Of the pictures I have seen of his R52 there was not a second roll bar.

There are rolling crash videos of tests performed on several cabrios including the R52 and it did extremely well. I am thinking the the bars will support 3 times the weight of the vehicle. I already wear a Schroth when I am doing some spirited runs but would not mind having another metal bar above and closer to my head if I could still have the top function.

I plan on calling Autoworks and see what they have to offer.

 

There is a shop in North Carolina that does bars and cages, Hard Dog. I am going to talk with them. I am wondering whether a bar that attaches to the floor behind the front seat and then struts back to the Gen1 Roll Bar and connects in some manner could work.

When someone dies young, they are "frozen in time." They do not age or go through the loss of other loved ones. Loved ones are left with only "what could have been." His second son was born 6 weeks after he died. They were coming back from a Lemaze course.

I approach any intersection with caution that I never even considered before my rollover. I was going around 35 mph as I was slowing down for a speed zone approaching a village. It was the hardest hits I every experienced and I cannot even fathom what a race car driver feels with the speeds they are going,

 

This is what I have thought about and have sent it over to Hard Dog. Will see what he comes back with.

 

I am trying to keep the seats in place so I am looking at how I can deform the outer corners so that bar will pass by.

On Blimey, I believe he has a M3 now. I do know that he has been having his butt handled to him in his "GP" by a lowly R53 with allot less HP at the track and AXs. Goes to prove that engine and suspension modifications mean nothing, it is the person that sits behind the wheel that makes the difference. He lives in the next town over from me.

 

There are inherent dangers anytime one gets into or onto a motor vehicle and is on the highway. I lost my younger brother in a car accident as while he was stopped at a traffic light a drunk did not stop and hit his car from the rear. I was broadsided causing my Chevy Blazer to roll over and in the words of a witness "bounce around like a ping pong ball."

The Schroth is used to keep my ass in the car seat as the odds are better if you are in the car than if you are thrown out. I enjoy a convertible and if God says my number is up while in my MINI then I will meet my maker with a smile on my face.

I called Autopower and they do not make a unit for a MINI convertible.