S3 roll hoops / roll bar

[ianm67]

Chaps,
I seen pictures of a few S series cars that have roll bars / hoops fitted? Are these available off the shelf or are these generally custom or self build jobs?
Thanks in advance,
IanM

[GI]

The one in my V8S is a Tower View one.

www.shpub.co.uk/tvrservices/thetvrsseries-ro.html

I'm not entirely sure that that's not my car in those pics.

[longers]

This may help,

www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=213129

Longers

[pstruck]

GI said:

I'm not entirely sure that that's not my car in those pics.

It is, whilst in the ownership of JSG.

[V8Smith]

Mine is from the roll centre I trimmed mine to match the interior so (IMHO) it looks much better than a standard roll bar. Check out my profile for the pics.

Mike

[GI]

pstruck said:

It is, whilst in the ownership of JSG.

I thought it must have been

I may be wrong but when the rollbar was put into the car, part of where it fixed to the chassis was used to mount ribs below the fibreglass of the bodywork to which the seats are bolted. This is much stronger than the standard seat fixings directly to the fibreglass.

Just a thought but if you get a rollbar you might want to go the same route...

[GreenV8S]

The seat brace bars are a separate modification (but well worth doing).

[GI]

Have seat mountings been known to break at the mounting points during crashes or through normal day-to-day stressing?

[GreenV8S]

I haven't see seats fall out in day-to-day use, but I have seen some fairly alarming stress cracks. And I have seen seats ripped loose following a collision. If you have a seat that offers any lateral support (i.e. not the standard seats) the seat brace bars also stop the seat wobbling about so much and locate the driver better.