side impact bars?
Discussion
Chaps
As the Griff and the Chimera don't have any form a real side impact protection, I was thinking of making up a set which can bolt in place, thing is I'd need a few people to make it worthwhile doing a small run, would anyone be interested?
No idea of the costs at this stage but it wouldn't be too extravagant as it'll be a bar with some plates on each end to pick up of the hinge and striker plate points inside the door
Matt
As the Griff and the Chimera don't have any form a real side impact protection, I was thinking of making up a set which can bolt in place, thing is I'd need a few people to make it worthwhile doing a small run, would anyone be interested?
No idea of the costs at this stage but it wouldn't be too extravagant as it'll be a bar with some plates on each end to pick up of the hinge and striker plate points inside the door
Matt
350matt said:
Chaps
As the Griff and the Chimera don't have any form a real side impact protection, I was thinking of making up a set which can bolt in place, thing is I'd need a few people to make it worthwhile doing a small run, would anyone be interested?
No idea of the costs at this stage but it wouldn't be too extravagant as it'll be a bar with some plates on each end to pick up of the hinge and striker plate points inside the door
Matt
As the Griff and the Chimera don't have any form a real side impact protection, I was thinking of making up a set which can bolt in place, thing is I'd need a few people to make it worthwhile doing a small run, would anyone be interested?
No idea of the costs at this stage but it wouldn't be too extravagant as it'll be a bar with some plates on each end to pick up of the hinge and striker plate points inside the door
Matt
Hi Matt, I would be interested, any idea on cost
Mark
Sorry to piss on your fire, but what's the point of door bars if they aren't attached to anything solid. Neither the hinge assembly nor the striker plate is attached to anything solid. The hinge is mounted to via 4 bolts to the glass fibre and the striker plate is attached to glass fibre by what can only be 3 off M5 or M6 bolts.
Regards
Iain
Regards
Iain
the thing is most of the other TVR's have them (including Wedges!) and they do without any chassis pick-ups but rely on the honking big chunks of plate which are glassed into the body to support the door hinges and door lock.
I agree they wouldn't be as effective without some chassis support but they'd be better than nothing surely?
Matt
I agree they wouldn't be as effective without some chassis support but they'd be better than nothing surely?
Matt
350matt said:
I agree they wouldn't be as effective without some chassis support but they'd be better than nothing surely?
Why "surely"? I reckon it would just provide a horizontally free-moving hunk of metal in the event of a side impact that would surely just rip the bar-mountings off the door. If you want to test the prototype maybe a call to one of the breakers might create a chance to fit it to a wreck and have one of the fork-lift/JCB jockeys take a run at the side. I'm nnot convinced it would do diddly-squat in this setting - but happy to be proven wrong.
The side bars on Wedges are bolted to the chassis, via metal posts in the A and B pillars. Certainly on the early FHC's like mine they are.
I have to admit after being in the racer, I do at times feel very vulnerable in a road spec Chimmy, but I still think what is being suggested is nothing more than a token gesture.
Regards
Iain
I have to admit after being in the racer, I do at times feel very vulnerable in a road spec Chimmy, but I still think what is being suggested is nothing more than a token gesture.
Regards
Iain
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