Thinking About a Rollbar, Need Advice

[swflastang05]

The swing out and no cutting of the rear panels are why I went with the Wolfe racing bar.

^^I ordered a wolfe race craft bar today for this reason, and I just like the design better as well as it's available in chromoly. Not to mention they ship it already powder coated gloss black, which works good for my car.

 

[weather man]

I need to get going and get one coming.

 

[TexasBlownV8]

I opted for the Wolfe 6-point with swing-outs, taking advantage of a holiday sale and picking it up to avoid shipping. I like the fact that the back seat can still fold up and down, and the back seat can be taken out if you need to take it out. The back part braces to the top of the frame rails in the trunk, which I like, and not to the top of the fender well or other weaker point on the body; I opted to fab up some strong U-brackets to secure it around the frame rail for extra strength.
The driver side has a nice seat belt retention bracket so shoulder belts stay within their area around the bar.

But..what I don't like is that they sit on the floor pan behind the front seats, and not directly over the strongest part of the frame. I intend to modify the lower mounting and beef it up so there is an additional short brace that runs to the floor above the frame rail, and increase the area of the floor pan foot so that it resides over the frame rail as well.

The black powedercoating is very good, as are all the welds they did on the welded connections.

 

[JLear]

I really appreciate all the helpful feedback, most likely I will end up getting a RPM since there's no extra work to make it legal, no parts to add, and no mods to make it more user friendly.