Safety Devices Dash Brace bar (or a door bar)
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Anyone got a SD dash bar spare? or a SD door bar will do.
Preferable with its fittings.

Cheers

Jo

"Turbo's make torque, and torque makes fun"

"did you know you can toast potato waffles?"

They're VERY cheap at Minispares!

Door bars are universal, you tend to have to cut them to length, then either weld or bolt them together.

They are not ideal to use as a dash bar however. This is because the front uprights are not parallel.
You can see in the picture that I had the ends bent slightly to line up with the cage. 'The roll centre' did it for me, can't remember how much it cost, but they supplied all the approved brackets ready to weld on too.

Edited by wil_h on 11th May, 2006.

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The Safety devices is totally straight:

http://www.minispares.com/Product.aspx?pid=34776



I think that a bar that has been used as a door bar might be too short for the dash.

You dash bar looks like one of my door bars, my door bars were really loooong when I got them, not sure if they'd be long enough though, as you say.

You couldn't use the brackets I have on a straight bar, but the ones you have work fine.

So many different ways of doing one job!

Fastest 998 mini in the world? 13.05 1/4 mile 106mph

www.twin-turbo.co.uk

Im pretty sure that the door bars will be long enough, cheers for the helpful pics.

Vegard whats that 'hump' in the floor next to your gearstick?

Thanks

Jo

"Turbo's make torque, and torque makes fun"

"did you know you can toast potato waffles?"

Jo
Hump in floor is for early shells, before rod change came along.

My dash bar is a door bar. BUT, my concern is that when buying an used door bar, this might be too short. From the factory they're WAY tooo long though.
The hump is where I keep my secret mods.