[QUOTE=circuitclub,Feb 26 2009, 03:35 PM] i dont get it, there are pictures floating around of cusco/safety 21 bars supporting the s2000 upside down after a roll bar.

 

i know spoon makes one that is workable with the softtop....

 

4. the joints which attaches the front/rear legs to the main hoop will flex under pressure

 

These threads come up remarkably frequently. People ask if it's "safe" to put in a roll bar while keeping the car as a daily driver. Almost never are they really asking for honest opinions, it seems, but validation of what they have already decided to do.

Assuming you don't compromise the stock safety features, you're not making the car any less safe on the track (perhaps on the street, but not on the track) by doing that. But that's not the same thing as "safe" on the track.

It's been a little over two years since I've tracked my S2000 (which I tracked for two years completely stock); for most of the time I was tracking it, I felt that I was safe, despite my height. Now that I've been racing for two years, I can't imagine being on the track without all the safety features a race car has, including and especially a properly welded cage well above the top of my helmet.

We all have to make our own decisions (assuming your decision meets minimum standards for whatever track/organization you're tracking with) as to what's "safe;" for many of us, there's no such thing as "safe" and "top works." YMMV

 

will my Cusco 4 point pass tech for most east coast track events? TrackDaze, HPDE, etc

 

I could contact the organization you plan to run with before making the trip to the track.

 

i emailed TrackDaze for a response. Hopefully it'll be okay because they said that they would approve most "aftermarket" rollbars

 

I know it won't pass at limerock for sure no matter the organization. Their own track inspectors will fail it and they have priority over the event organizers.

I also don't think they pass at njmp or watkins but I have seen some people get away with it.

For me and like a lot of others have said I wouldn't wan to run it for safety reason and also the chance that I might not pass. Since every track is over 2 hours from where I live if I drove all that way just to fail tech my blood would boil.

 

^does it depend on what event you are doing? i can understand it being strict for TT and such, but things like HPDE or PDX doesnt require as much.

 

Sometimes tracks have rules, and usually event organizers have rules (or explicitly decide not to have rules). Some event organizers have different rules for different run groups. So yes, it all depends.

Typically if you meet SCCA-type race specs, you'll be more than covered for most events. But I know of at least one group that just doesn't allow convertibles at all -- even fully caged race cars. They take the position that they are not tech inspectors and they do not want the liability of deciding which cages/bars are good enough.

(That particular group was selling out all the time, so they could get away with that conservatism. In the current economic climate, I wonder if they will be able to continue to write off the business of the convertible owners.)