Hey, i just want to know if anyone has ever put a roll cage in their 7 vert. i know there is a website that has the roll bar for sale for like 475 but im talking about a full cage, which reinforces the frame and adds stability. i want to know if anyone has done this or seen it done? pics please if you have any. if its too costly or not really worth putting a cage in a vert post up your reason why i wanna hear all kinds of feedback on this. thanks

 

Look on the Mazdatrix site, they've got a bunch of pics of the rollcage in their EP class road racing vert. There's also the roll cage thread in the racing forum, but I don't know if there's any verts in there.

 

something tells me the convertible top doesn't work on mazdatrix car anymore
I was wondering the same thing, but if anyone has a full cage that doesnt interfere with the top much if at all.

 

To me rollcage means racecar, and racecar means no top. A full cage isn't a good idea on the street.

You'd have to run a petty bar to substitute for the rear supports that you can't run with the top.

 

We have a vert with a full cage, and yes its a full race car. Actually runs in the same class as the mazdatrix car, different coast.

The vert chassis is actually pretty stiff for not having a roof. There is about 200lbs of extra metal bracing in the car. Unless you are going to run it as a full on race car, skip the cage. Its a blvd cruiser not a hotrod.

 

well thanks for the feedback. what i really wanted to see was if it was worth putting the effort into putting a cage, one thing i would really like on it would be like a roll bar like the miata. i know anything like that may affect the operation of the roof and placement of the targa when you put the top down. i would love to put a nice cage in my vert but i see that doing so will make less driver friendly for a daily driver, which is what my vert is. my DD. Too bad my top leaks and i get rained on every time it rains lol. and it's been raining almost daily down here in Florida...

 

leaking tops are part of owning a vert that gets used on rainy days it seems. i had a wet butt on the work today from the rain :-/

i see what you guys are saying about only caging a race car. on the street if you get in a wreck and rack your head against the cage (even a padded one) a wreck you might have survived might turn fatal.

agreed for the stiffness of the chassis for not having a roof. i'm impressed still.

 

You can get a rollbar like an 06+ Miata, it bolts to the floor and the seatbelt towers. Not ideal as there's no bracing at the top, but it's better than nothing. That's about the only real option for a DD type car. Autopower makes such a bar, available from I/O Port.

 

miatas don't have rollbars. They have STYLE BARS. The difference is that the latter don't help you live.

 

Sort of like the salad bowls the Hardley Ableson riders wear?

 

exactly.

 

The earlier Miatas can have real roll bars with rearward bracing and all, but when they switched the top folding on the 06+'s it eliminated that option.