Does the sports bar offer substantial protection in a rollover?

[riverflyer]

I have seen pics of Mroadsters resting on top of the factory roll hoops after a rollover and wonder if the Viper sports bar would support the car also. I know without cross bracing it would not withstand a sliding situation but at slower speeds will it hold up?

 

[snowmann]

No.

 

[Viperfreak2]

There's a sticker that says something like 'not a rollover protection device'. I even heard the SRT-10 has nothing substantial under the roll hoops.

 

[slaughterj]

I've seen pics of a rollover and it looked like the sports bar did the job.

 

[King RT10]

Ask Kelsey Grammer. Saved his life when he flipped

 

[DodgeViper01]

Nope just as ViperFreak2 wrote they do not offer any protection. I guess you can say that it is better than nothing but it really was not built to do anything except hold up the hard top.

 

[YellowSnake]

Sports Bar?

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[Paul Hawker]

I've seen "sports bars" with their plastic removed. It is indeed a very solid structural member, of steel. That said no one is going to guarantee any "safety" aspects of this hoop. For a street car, I believe it is a very solid structure, however it is limited in it's protection due to it's height. For a race car, a reinforcement would be in order.

 

[joe117]

YellowSnake,
You should have posted the bar picture upside down.

 

[Stang7900]

I've been to that sports bar Jason, and after that I was rolled by some blonde, does that count?

 

[jimandela]

I don"t trust it.
That is why most of the time I wear my 5 pt harness!!

 

[riverflyer]

I've been to that sports bar Jason, and after that I was rolled by some blonde, does that count?

Sorry, that would only count if she performed a rollover WITH you. Being rolled does not count!