I don't know about you guys, but I know my head sticks above those little roll bars behind the seats and comes just about even to the top of the windshield, and I know that everything has been reinforced because it's a convertible.....Would someone survive if the car actually flipped????

Anyone have experienced this or know anyone that has experienced this????

Anyone have any crash test videos of the stook (i know they may be painful to watch)????

[Edited by SiK182 on 06-08-2001 at 08:15 AM]

 

Personally I don't think the outlook is good. Especially if you flip it onto soft ground where you have to figure the windshield and roll bars are going to dig into the ground making the clearance between your head and the ground even less. That is, your head is going to be digging in right along with the roll bars.

Not a pretty mental image.

 

Yeah...I couldn't imaigine it being a good thing...you would prolly survive but, it wouldn't be pretty!

 

I thing you and me both would have a problem. I suggest wearing a crash helmet

I have a couple of nagging questions in this regard:

1) is the top of the windshield frame forward or aft of the center of mass? If you flipped it over, would it lay nose or ass down?

2) Is there a removable roll bar (not cage) that can be used in situations where rollover is most likely such as at the track or during sessions of spirited driving. I'd hate to total my car but I'd like to be around afterwards to mourn its loss. Would a roll bar that could be clipped or pinned in place make sense? Since all the force would be downward (upward?) the joints would need to be able to withstand the side and compression forces but that all no? You would also think it would only need to work once.


[Edited by josh3io on 06-08-2001 at 09:35 AM]

 

SiK182,

Good question, I have been wondering that myself.

For one thing...my passenger would be history when Honda Gillman forgot to put in a bolt in the roll bar to chassis assembly, and left another bolt halfway screwed in when they did my seatbelt recall service:

http://www.s2000online.com/forums/showthre...?threadid=16625

 

This has already happened and been reported here and/or H-A.net before we congregated here. The reports I've read were very favorable. Everyone walked away. I don't know how tall the people involved were.

 

God help us if the car lays down on it's ass, because I have a feeling it would crush our heads & snap our spines....I know my head sticks up above the damn roll bars behind my head.....

As for a small roll bar to put in place, I don't know the answer, but I would be interested....

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Strike
[B]This has already happened and been reported here and/or H-A.net before we congregated here.

 

The pictures I have seen of two different rolls showed that the windshield frame, which incorporates a high strength reinforcement to the frame, did not fold but managed to also act as a roll bar.

 

Good question.. Now for a simple answer.. YES, you would survive.
I have the rather unfortunates opportunity to know 2 people that rolled an S2000 MY2000 (Silver) in S.C.
They both walked away. The driver of the car stood at about 6'1 or so.. Happens to be a good friend of my girlfriends.
Anyway, Both he and the passenger (about 5'9 or so) got away.. I am not sure how fast they were going, or if this is just a case of good luck, but maybe it will set your mind at ease a little bit..