buddy350
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Just finished a 8 point roll cage and have been looking for some roll bar padding to put in areas around the driver.
Last time I built a cage was about 17 years ago and I seem to remember we always just used round foam padding with 1 3/4 inch center diameter.
Now all that seems to be out there for roll bar padding is what is called "offset".
I went ahead and purchased some offset padding only because I could not find just normal round padding anywhere and sure enough when I installed some of it I noticed right away it had a tendency to twist so that the thin side would turn towards the driver and the thick padded side would turn away from the driver.
That's a serious danger if a driver is out on the track and the padding were to twist or turn in the event of a accident the driver would be exposed to the thin side of the padding
This would not happen if the padding was a equal diameter all of the way around.
For the life of me I cannot understand why offset roll bar padding is the standard these days, just makes no sense.
I understand that padding should be fire resistant and so on and that could all still be achieved with equal diameter roll bar padding.
Anyone have any input on this matter?
Last time I built a cage was about 17 years ago and I seem to remember we always just used round foam padding with 1 3/4 inch center diameter.
Now all that seems to be out there for roll bar padding is what is called "offset".
I went ahead and purchased some offset padding only because I could not find just normal round padding anywhere and sure enough when I installed some of it I noticed right away it had a tendency to twist so that the thin side would turn towards the driver and the thick padded side would turn away from the driver.
That's a serious danger if a driver is out on the track and the padding were to twist or turn in the event of a accident the driver would be exposed to the thin side of the padding
This would not happen if the padding was a equal diameter all of the way around.
For the life of me I cannot understand why offset roll bar padding is the standard these days, just makes no sense.
I understand that padding should be fire resistant and so on and that could all still be achieved with equal diameter roll bar padding.
Anyone have any input on this matter?
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