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I don't have a roll bar yet and was looking at the picture of Roo4 I was wandering if it's still possible to add the roll bar when the car is finished, or should I get one up front and mount it before the body?

Werner Van Loock wrote:I don't have a roll bar yet and was looking at the picture of Roo4 I was wandering if it's still possible to add the roll bar when the car is finished, or should I get one up front and mount it before the body?

Werner , it's definately easier to pre - mount the bar before fitting the body because you have the classic Stylus which has slightly different mounting to the latest bar design . It has side plates to be welded or bolted to the 2'' x 1'' chassis rail that arches over the boot area. If you bolt it , remember to fit pinch tubes through the rail fitted JUST flush , to stop the rail crushing. I welded mine , long after the car was built so at least you know it is possible Personally , I'd remove it while you fit the body once you've bolted/welded ? the plates and drilled any holes needed . All chassis rails drilled need pinch tubes ; it does tell you that in the manual but you bought yours part built so probably don't have one.
Be careful fitting the body because even with help it's easy to crack. From memory , I think I hooked it over the nose end first , pulled it back as far as possible then pushed it over the tail end. Three of us did it -- one up front then two at the rear sides
Before you order a bar , don't forget to put the seat in temporarily -- sit in it and get someone to measure from the chassis rail at the top of the seat pan to at least 6 inches above your head. You're tall so no bar will be correct for everyone , i.e. standard bar If you ever take the Stylus onto a track you will have a helmet which will be at least 2 inches over your head. The MSA safety rules then say the bar must be 50mm above the helmet --- HENCE my 6 inches
So many guys have fitted bars then had to change them for safety -- afterall if you turn the car over and your head's above the bar

Rob.(trying to save you hastle )

To fit the bare to my cahssis which is old I hade to weld in some extra plates to suit the new bar see picture.

Tim supplied some sketches of what I needed to make and where it went.

It was straight forward Apart from chassis is slightly wider than todays, so I had to reweld the bar mount.





Iain

Your chassis is number 5 ? so obviously it's one of Jeremy Phillips's chassis . Revel Coles being the first SSC chassis number 9 .Any after that were made by Neville Powell and eventually the ' Yorkshire guy ' and now in house . These will not need that step up as on yours ROO4 but will need a side plate each side (as explained to Werner). I think the reason for that step up is that the first Stylus's built by JP were Fury chassis.

Rob.

Thanks a lot for the explanation. Because i was thinking of building it first without it. Not going to happen then