What bar and why

[ROVERNIT]

Hi All


I'm looking at getting a bar put on the front of my 99 Disco 2 I was going to go with the awesome looking tube bars from Equip but there illegal for Air bagged trucks :( Ive now got it booked in at ARB for the delux model $1300 fitted which isnt bad along with IPF spotties submergables $500ish fitted for those I was wondering if there is a better bar then the ARB ones for D2

My front spring rate is 220ibs is this going to cause it to sag as when I got the front springs made I was determind to have the tube bar



Cheers Hak

[discogirl]

Hey
We have a Ironman Grey/Grey Tube Bar on ours for airbag rated and have no probs looks good to i like the recessed little spotties and the fact that it is a winch bar aswell. I was the same i wanted the tube bar not the commercial looking one but lucky ironman did one.

[Bazza_rips]

go the ARB. strong, good looking and proven performers.

[ROVERNIT]

Hey
We have a Ironman Grey/Grey Tube Bar on ours for airbag rated and have no probs looks good to i like the recessed little spotties and the fact that it is a winch bar aswell. I was the same i wanted the tube bar not the commercial looking one but lucky ironman did one.


Hay mate when I meant tube bar I meant this thing

Equipe 4x4 - Disco I & II/RR Classic Winchbumper A-Bar (http://www.equipe4x4.com.au/shop/index.php?act=viewProd&productId=21)

or

Equipe 4x4 - Disco I & II/RR Classic Winchbumper (http://www.equipe4x4.com.au/shop/index.php?act=viewProd&productId=23)

they look the best but ilegal :cry:

who fitted the iron man one for ya

[brooksy]

Hay mate when I meant tube bar I meant this thing

Equipe 4x4 - Disco I & II/RR Classic Winchbumper A-Bar (http://www.equipe4x4.com.au/shop/index.php?act=viewProd&productId=21)

or

Equipe 4x4 - Disco I & II/RR Classic Winchbumper (http://www.equipe4x4.com.au/shop/index.php?act=viewProd&productId=23)

they look the best but ilegal :cry:

who fitted the iron man one for ya


Crap they are dear !! They look good once you also purchase the bashplates & guards. $1,599 for just the bar is too much. I built 1 along the lines of the Scorpion which is the same as these for a Rangie (Rocky4.4) for less than half that price.


brooksy

[ROVERNIT]

I would love one but those darn air bags

Brooksy is there any way around it some one was talking about crash cans

[long stroke]

HI
another option could be a custom made bar

[ROVERNIT]

HI
another option could be a custom made bar


Thats what I would rather but again the SRS Air bag issue

[gidget]

A custom bar can be made to suit your air bags......... BUT.............

They will need to be tested by DOT (or who ever it is) & that costs a pretty penny.
When Brooksy & I talked about it ages ago, he had to make something like 10 bars for them to crash & smash to get them adr approved :eek:

[ROVERNIT]

what gets me is that Ive seen heaps of badly smashed cars at the salavage auctions that people have been either killed or badly injured and the impact moved the engine that far left that the front passager wheel and the engine looked to be one yet no air bag activation :mad:

[Rocky4.4]

Crap they are dear !! They look good once you also purchase the bashplates & guards. $1,599 for just the bar is too much. I built 1 along the lines of the Scorpion which is the same as these for a Rangie (Rocky4.4) for less than half that price.


brooksy

There ya go Brooksy,;)

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p227/RockyNL/Picture048-1.jpg

[brooksy]

I was going to build a bar for a customer using ARB crush cans but the weight & geometry (between the chassis) wouldn't have matched due to the bar being too different. The customer said he would sign a waver making me not responsible as the builder but in a court of law that piece of paper means nothing & I am affraid my family comes first so I have decided to not do fr. bars for SRS fitted vehicles that are being used onroad.
I am just a 1 man small business more aimed at the hardcore side of the industry.


brooksy

[ROVERNIT]

I was going to build a bar for a customer using ARB crush cans but the weight & geometry (between the chassis) wouldn't have matched due to the bar being too different. The customer said he would sign a waver making me not responsible as the builder but in a court of law that piece of paper means nothing & I am affraid my family comes first so I have decided to not do fr. bars for SRS fitted vehicles that are being used onroad.
I am just a 1 man small business more aimed at the hardcore side of the industry.


brooksy


Oh hell yeah brooksy your no good to your family behind bars and neither am I because god forbid I have an bad acco and its my fault and some one dies I would prosume I would be up for a murder charges

ARB bar here I come

[tpj77]

ARB or TJM. Legal with your SRS and they both a good looking unit (I prefer the TJM actually, a bit tidier and the ARB looks a bit bulky).

Trav

[ROVERNIT]

I like the TJM also but getting the ARB due to it being $200 cheaper then the due to the purchase of lockers im getting a good discount on it all $3500 for the lockers and compressor $1300 for the bar $500 for spotties submergable ones all fitted

all being fitted tomorrow :waycool: :thumb: