Well I just got back from the junk yard and picked up a pretty sweet find. I pulled a light/roll bar off of a subaru brat(yeah the truck thingy). I test fited it in a civic hatch. Thing fits pretty well...sadly the rear bars go right through the rear seats ....might have pics next weekend

 

Well got time to work on it today so here are some pics for anyone interested.




still needs some work (forgot about the bracket that sit above your head haha)
and alittle mounting brackets for the bottom side and she will be good!

 

a death waiting to happen....


"a young man was decapitated today"

 

that looks dangerous.. its too close to the head

 

Not even close to fitting...

 

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He had an open casket, someone said hes really a head of him self.

HAR HAR

 

its probably just as good as a cusco cage though, so you will get JDM points FA SHO!

Ya a roll cage is one of those things that should not be a product of scavenging, ghetto rigging, zip tying, and not paying attention to.

 

Thats scary..........I don't think they would tech that car

 

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Come on , that's nothing to lose your head over.

 

What is so wrong with it? It does need alittle more work to move it farther back.

 

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Well the bars are too close to the driver and passenger's heads. This means in an accident when flopping around, even if wearing a seatbelt, you just installed a bar to smash your head and your passenger's head off of. This can essentially kill you.

Also roll bars are spaced out to the width of the car. This is so that the energy from an impact can be transfered from the hardest hit area through the bar and then onto the other side. Giving the car stability. With the part of the bar that is going through the rear seats its too close together and there is too much space between it and the side of the car. This is going to make an area to crumple before the energy gets to the bar. Most likely breaking the bar off of the body in the attached positions, putting awkward stress on the other mounting points of the bar and possibly breaking them off too. So now you have a large piece of metal bouncing around in the car while you are in an accident. Waiting to whack into you and causing you damage.

Roll cages are built for safety reasons and are designed to meet specifications for each model of vehicle. The way that the bar is designed is to spread out force evenly while giving protection during a roll over insident aswell. Not for show reasons. Mind you there are some companies who do make show roll bars, but those are just stupid. If you want to have this device as a safety measure, get a real one built for a Civic. This one is more dangerous than not having one at all.

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Point taken! Atleast i didnt waste time fully installing it

 

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Well the bars are too close to the driver and passenger's heads. This means in an accident when flopping around, even if wearing a seatbelt, you just installed a bar to smash your head and your passenger's head off of. This can essentially kill you.

Also roll bars are spaced out to the width of the car. This is so that the energy from an impact can be transfered from the hardest hit area through the bar and then onto the other side. Giving the car stability. With the part of the bar that is going through the rear seats its too close together and there is too much space between it and the side of the car. This is going to make an area to crumple before the energy gets to the bar. Most likely breaking the bar off of the body in the attached positions, putting awkward stress on the other mounting points of the bar and possibly breaking them off too. So now you have a large piece of metal bouncing around in the car while you are in an accident. Waiting to whack into you and causing you damage.

Roll cages are built for safety reasons and are designed to meet specifications for each model of vehicle. The way that the bar is designed is to spread out force evenly while giving protection during a roll over insident aswell. Not for show reasons. Mind you there are some companies who do make show roll bars, but those are just stupid. If you want to have this device as a safety measure, get a real one built for a Civic. This one is more dangerous than not having one at all.

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Excellent explanation.

Plus, by the looks of it, mounting locations would have been on shitty unsupported metal in very bad locations.

It wouldn't have been able to bear a load anyway. Plus, I'm not really a fan of having a roll bar w/out a harness.

 

sounds good CRX forum.

Not trying to knock you, just trying to help. Good luck getting a nice cage, I will be doing one eventually also. (CRX's are death traps)

 

are you getting rid of your backseat then? I am kind of in need.