Re: Craig's Panther Project - Rollbar 8-point system
Posted by Craig Hendrickson On 2017/1/2 20:42:19
The next challenge was the side doorbars. This car is a driver and needs to to have easy entry/exit. Competition Engineering make a pivoting doorbar kit for their roll bar kits. This is NOT recommended for a full-on race car, but is fine in a street car. The only critical part was making sure the pivot point at the front downbar was at about the same radius as the door pivot radius because the doorbar will be lanyarded to the door: Here's some pictures:
The "dip" in the door bar is to clear the armrest on the door panel. It will still protect the driver/passenger.
What remains to be done is very minor. Some cleanup of the welds for cosmetic appearance and then painting the entire rollbar system gloss black. Later, a 3-point shoulder part of a seat belt system will be attached to the main hoop upright, just like a modern car.
In future posts on this thread, I'll show what I'm doing to the dash and the rear "business coupe" area.
Any questions or comments are always welcome.
Craig
The "dip" in the door bar is to clear the armrest on the door panel. It will still protect the driver/passenger.
What remains to be done is very minor. Some cleanup of the welds for cosmetic appearance and then painting the entire rollbar system gloss black. Later, a 3-point shoulder part of a seat belt system will be attached to the main hoop upright, just like a modern car.
In future posts on this thread, I'll show what I'm doing to the dash and the rear "business coupe" area.
Any questions or comments are always welcome.
Craig
This Post was from: https://packardinfo.com/xoops/html/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=186431