Retro fitting a CSX rollbar on a superformance

[mickmate]

Hey Frank good to hear from you and really good to hear you got another Cobra, you said you would. The center line measurement fore and aft is 13-3/4". The rear hole is very much a half round end rectangle because of the angle. As you know with cars like the Contemporary they did the short rollbars on quite a few to fit under hard and soft tops and that made the rear brace hole way far forward for original style. That makes it hard to get a correct looking rollbar without doing bodywork on holes but I have seen some careful bends put in rear braces to accommodate different height bars.

[Bernica]

And I have been there. Wanted to just do the old school fuel line grommets, but by the time I was done I ended up here, right or wrong. The rear brace hole is the evil one!

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[ACademic]

Originally Posted by Bernica

The rear brace hole is the evil one!

Which probably explains why the real ones don't even bother with a bezel/escutcheon at all. I suppose drilling two overlapping holes to create that elongated portion has some pucker factor to it.