Yes for your own sake please put at the very least a solid roll bar into it.
Plenty of glory results come up when you google miata roll bar crash, not linking those to here. Pictures tell the story however, slow cars can flip, car like this is a death trap.
S2000s.hold up a.shit ton better than what you posted…
5 star roll resistance ftw
Oh yeah, forgot with their super titanium Vtec A pillers
You do realize that even metal roof cars have roll cages for a reason right? There is also a logic why convertibles require extra steps in safety in racing events.
To each his own however.
yeah looks like it:
never the less, he has a 3 point restraint and thats it. The silver car they got lucky and it stuffed once in the grass on the drivers side rear and flopped back on the wheels. Notice the windshield is still 100%, IE it never took a hit. the black one was upside down for a while and came to a rest like that. Not hitting a concrete wall, or tumbling away. Physics are a bitch, centrifugal forces and G forces are why NHRA makes you use something other than a cheezy oem 3 point lap belt.
And both of the those were 50-65mph… not 130-150mph. Lift at the end of the track at 140, ass end gets loose, cross lane and hit the wall… you get the picture. Not to mention a wrinkle wall rear, just waiting to fold over, plant and pogo a car in a high speed slide.
Wouldnt catch me out there running the car for what its worth without a cage, window net, 5 pt, fire suit, etc… you know the NHRA legal stuff for a car that capable.
EDITED BECAUSE THEY BEAT ME TO THE PICS…
times are either .49 or .99 for requirements, not this .59 nonsense.
Not reading all that gibberish.
Again… s2000 holds up better.than what vlad had posted prior to my first response.
Even if it holds up “better” why wouldn’t he put a roll bar in it
I don’t know?
You are talking about following cage rules? you put a road racing cage into a drag car. Your cage isn’t legal for any NHRA track.
Who cares? The cage is for his safety, not just to pass tech inspection.
This shits hilarious…
x2 lol, fuck a cage for looks, fuck a cage for the track… Cage is to save yo LYFEEE son
krazy kid cant post unless its a page long. Im not running a cage and ud def die with one on the street.
You wouldn’t die, if you wear a helmet all the time…LOL
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this why people dont need a cage in a s2000
That Intercooler said “fuck you wall”. Can’t touch this.
This. Cage is dangerous on the street. Given this isn’t a drag car I’d see it as much safer to not cage it considering how much time it will spend on the street
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sorry my recollection was off a tenth.
Do me a favor and put the car cover back on it at Darryls house after you are done measuring the tubing on the car. thanks. If/when its running and it fails tech, its nothing a sawsall and more tubing wont fix… time will tell.
So you have like 4 choices I see.
-Risk a concussion or worse with a cage on the street if you get hit.
-Risk a getting smooshed like a bug at high speed without one at the track.
-Make one pass at the cars potential, pay for rental and pack it up.
-Never drive the car to its full potential on the track as it sits.
BTW cage on the street. Padding is required around the driver bars, a proper harness shouldn’t let your dome contact cage bars anyway… not to mention the hoop is BEHIND the drivers head, not on the side of it… so I dont see where your head would really contact anything to begin with. Assuming thats what part of the body would warrant the: “ud def die with one on the street”