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Originally Posted by lippy
Sort of a hybrid street/SC...I don't plan on tracking the car. Would it be crazy to build without a roll bar? I think the chance of rolling the car is low, and I'm not sure the roll bar would do any good anyway.
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Here are a few pics of sort of a hybrid (mine):
Like you, I have no interest in track racing, but might be interested in some 1/8 mile drag racing. Mostly, though, it is just my daily driver in decent weather.
However, relative to the roll bar issue, this thought occurs to me:
...it would be better to have it and not "need" it than to "need" it and not have it.
You never know what might happen out there on the street....best to be prepared. Spinouts around corners and curves are not uncommon, and once the beast is sliding sideways (or, even worse, swapping ends) an unfortunate contact with a curb is all it would take to turn it over, with predictable consequences.
One side note...when it is in the garage and I need to move it, the roll bar is the thing to grab onto...easy to transfer the power to the chassis and easy to use to stop it before it hits something else....no need to get handprint smudges on the paint
, right?
Cheers!
Dugly
