Anybody have a Mazdaspeed roll bar?

[Pique]

As per the title -I have acquired a Mazdaspeed 4-point rollbar for the OH's MK1. It was supplied with what I assumed was all the fixings required but my garage (who are pretty sharp on all things MX-5) inform me that they can't fit it without it fouling the seatbelts and ultimately compromising the MOT. They think it needs seat-belt bolt spacers (from further research I can see these are required), they also suspect that I will need longer seatbelt mounting bolts which I have never seen or heard of before.

My seller has moved his old car on (complete with spacers) so I have no chance to see if there are indeed different seatbelt mounting bolts. Has anyone here got such a bar - if so how is it fitted? And does anyone know where I can get hold of the required bits? I'm in the doghouse at the moment due to the bar being a birthday present which until I can get these bits is useless so any help is massively appreciated!

[sbird]

Might be worth posting a photo up. There's so many different rollbar/stylebars out there, and the fittings vary.

[anonymous-user]

I have a Mazdaspeed 4-point bar on my mk1 Eunos. It's not a "proper" rollbar in that the rear legs just bolt to the parcel shelf, but it does have a variety of spacers and whatnot around the seatbelts. As it bolts to the seatbelt top mounts it means that the belts' top hanger can't face directly forward, IIRC they are skewed out towards the doors a bit. I've never found any problems though and it's passed 5 years of MOTs with it on.

I think there are chunky metal tube spacers under the bar's legs plates - I will try to remember to post some images of it tonight if they will be helpful.

[Pique]

JimSuperSix said:

I have a Mazdaspeed 4-point bar on my mk1 Eunos. It's not a "proper" rollbar in that the rear legs just bolt to the parcel shelf, but it does have a variety of spacers and whatnot around the seatbelts. As it bolts to the seatbelt top mounts it means that the belts' top hanger can't face directly forward, IIRC they are skewed out towards the doors a bit. I've never found any problems though and it's passed 5 years of MOTs with it on.

I think there are chunky metal tube spacers under the bar's legs plates - I will try to remember to post some images of it tonight if they will be helpful.

Cheers Jim

[anonymous-user]

Hello, sorry for the delay, it was chucking it down last night.
Should be 4 images showing the fixings.
There is a metal tube space under the seatbelt fixing above the rollbar flat plate on top of the seatbelt tower.
The bolts with the spherical ends are screwed through the plastic covers into threads underneath.
The rear legs have fixings into the parcel shelf with wide chunky metal spacers underneath where they are required, on mine using the cap head bolts.

[MX-5 Lazza]

So in reality it's just a slightly chunkier looking style-bar rather than anything that could be described as a roll bar

[Pique]

JimSuperSix said:

Pictures

Thanks Jim you are a legend, have a virtual pint on me!

Will print these out and give to the garage, along with a handful of these which have arrived from Autolink: http://www.autolinkmx5.com/seatbelt-mounting-bolt-...

I think the problem is my car has very long spacers at the moment (35mm) whereas some cars have smaller 15mm spacers. So using these smaller spacers will allow everything to fit on the standard bolt.

Massively appreciated - the power of PH!

[anonymous-user]

MX-5 Lazza said:

So in reality it's just a slightly chunkier looking style-bar rather than anything that could be described as a roll bar

Yeah I don't think it would hold up in a full roll, but apart from the problem of violent squishy death it does look really nice!