w650gb500

Alright guys, how long does it take to completely install one of the Hard Dog rollbars in an AP-1? The instructions are 4 pages covering 80 insttallation steps! WOW! Is this a 1 day affair(4-6 hours) or a week-long venture(20+ hours)? Someone please give me an idea before I dig in.

Thanks,

Dan

Sinji

give it at least 3-4 hours. its something you want to take your time with because you have to cut. mine took me 2.5 hours because my most of my panels were already removed.

w650gb500

Seriously? Removing the entire interior, seats, panels, trunk panels, spare, jacking the car, cutting the fenderwells, drilling, fitting and all of the re-assembly in 4 hours! No way. This is a completely stock car with all of the interior in place and you have seen it done in 4 hours? I guess I'm a slacker because there is no way I could do it in 8 hours or so all back together.

w650gb500

I just got off of the phone with Hard Dog and they advised me that when they just did 2 of them in-house, it was a day and a half project start to finish. 10-12 hours to get everything cut and trimmed and reassembled using all of the factory plastic trim pieces and original roll hoops.

Just thought I would throw that out for all to see.

Sinji

did you not read. all of my panels were already removed for me. and i had help. that is just installing the rollbar without the panels being put back in.

freq

I just did my Cusco / Safety 21 over the weekend. Total time, I'd say 1 man / 8 hours for mine.

coldrsx

did my hard dog last weekend...we didnt rush and took a lot of breaks and it took 2 of us with moderate skill about 8hrs.

qsmarcei

How has your experience been with the bar? Is the interior all torn to pieces or does it look semi acceptable?

I'm about to order one.

s2VTeK

It took my brother and I 6 hours to remove all the panels and put it in at my dad's shop. We didn't put any of the interior panels in. If you don't have a removable diagonal bar and want the oem seat belts makes sure u leave that in there before you bolt the roll bar in. We also ran into a few minor things that backed us up about 1 1/2-2 hours.

iam7head

it varies with skill level, you can remove all the interior pieces in 2 hours easy if you done it before and know where to tackle.

Mounting the roll bar on my beater was very easy but just take some time to trim the carpet, trim and plastic panel to make it "oem-like"