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Wooooh Ted !
I'm getting pretty worried about the speed of the other cars coming to Folembray already and now you're getting a full roll cage !!
Easy tiger, you'll be in on a mission aswell.
From what I know though no-one has fitted a full cage to a S series car. It would probably have to be a design and build from the Rollcentre or such like.
You could try and use your car as a prototype as we are starting to push the Tasmin guys to let us bring S's into the series aswell and then there would be a demand for full cages for S's.
SParing all that some old scaffold poles and a bit of welding and you'd be laughing.
I'm getting pretty worried about the speed of the other cars coming to Folembray already and now you're getting a full roll cage !!
Easy tiger, you'll be in on a mission aswell.
From what I know though no-one has fitted a full cage to a S series car. It would probably have to be a design and build from the Rollcentre or such like.
You could try and use your car as a prototype as we are starting to push the Tasmin guys to let us bring S's into the series aswell and then there would be a demand for full cages for S's.
SParing all that some old scaffold poles and a bit of welding and you'd be laughing.
Guessed as much.
We were musing the other day about a TVR race formula that allowed a variety of models onto the circuit at once rather than just the Tasmins.
There are several S's coming up very cheaply now and it would mena easy access to a good handling car etc etc.
It would be fun to turn a S into a track day car, but more fun to race it !
So if you are considering this, then are you considering a purchase of another car ??
We were musing the other day about a TVR race formula that allowed a variety of models onto the circuit at once rather than just the Tasmins.
There are several S's coming up very cheaply now and it would mena easy access to a good handling car etc etc.
It would be fun to turn a S into a track day car, but more fun to race it !
So if you are considering this, then are you considering a purchase of another car ??
I have a full roll cage in the 520 and if you want to see what serious surgery was required and I mean serious surgery, the car will be on the Tower View stand. Just don't mention roll cage to Dave or Mark as it will bring them out in a cold sweat. It is/was a serious amount of work and involved a lot of dashboard cutting and body work removal.
Steve
Steve
Ted
I posted the exact same question just a few weeks ago, I was advised to contact rollcentre to see if they could help. they told me to talk to Tower View Services as they are the distributors for these cages.
I have not yet had a chance to ask them, but sounds promising.
If you have any luck I would be interested to hear, and yes an new S challenge series would be a great idea and a good reason not to sell the S afterall.
I posted the exact same question just a few weeks ago, I was advised to contact rollcentre to see if they could help. they told me to talk to Tower View Services as they are the distributors for these cages.
I have not yet had a chance to ask them, but sounds promising.
If you have any luck I would be interested to hear, and yes an new S challenge series would be a great idea and a good reason not to sell the S afterall.
The cost of bending metal work is the easy bit. It is the "how do I work out how to fit this to the car without telling the owner that the whole interior needs to come out and that his foot needs to be broken in two places so he can get access to the accelerator" not to mention the odd TVR habit of changing things so that the roll bar doesn't fit the next car.
If the dashborad level bracing bar is not used, the front hoop not extended into the footwell to provide additional leg protection and the side impact bar not used it is easier but you loose a lot of the protection which is why it's there in the first place.
Been there... done that... Still sorting the interior out!
Steve
If the dashborad level bracing bar is not used, the front hoop not extended into the footwell to provide additional leg protection and the side impact bar not used it is easier but you loose a lot of the protection which is why it's there in the first place.
Been there... done that... Still sorting the interior out!
Steve
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Very impressed with the rear roll bar
Do you have one John?
Hi Ted,
Yes, I had one fitted a couple of weeks ago after getting nagged about the kids' safety when I took them out. Very neat installation. I always thought they looked ok and my first impressions are that the chassis seems stiffer (as expected) and road noise isn't any worse (as some had warned). I had the seat bracing bars fitted at the same time to keep my bum inside the car during bumpy high speed drives.
I'm itching to do a track day now.
Cheers,
John.
>> Edited by JSG (moderator) on Monday 12th August 00:10
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Very impressed with the rear roll bar, what did the Cosworth S racer have - was that a full cage?
Yes but the only thing they used from an S was the body style. The S chassis was replaced with a competition space frame one so bears little or no relationship with the production cars from that point. Easy enough to fit if the car is stripped out. Can be a lot of work if you want to retain the interior.
Steve
>> Edited by shpub on Monday 12th August 09:59
Steve,
I didn't know that they used a spaceframe in the Cosworth 'S', but it sounds like it would have been the sensible thing to do. I once heard a report that the car was a real hairy beast to drive because it used a slightly modified original chassis which had a bit of trouble dealing with the 500 odd horsepower, obviously incorrect then, although I suspect that even a spaceframe would have had a tough time with that sort of power.
Jas.
I didn't know that they used a spaceframe in the Cosworth 'S', but it sounds like it would have been the sensible thing to do. I once heard a report that the car was a real hairy beast to drive because it used a slightly modified original chassis which had a bit of trouble dealing with the 500 odd horsepower, obviously incorrect then, although I suspect that even a spaceframe would have had a tough time with that sort of power.
Jas.
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