27 Feb Raising The Bar
Hopefully we don’t need any more bar-related blog posts after this one. You’d be surprised how few puns we can pull off with that word.
Well, the S2000’s roll bar is all done. Before we give away the end result, let’s head back to fabrication for a New York minute. Once we finished welding the cage into the car, we made sure nothing was on fire (it wasn’t) and went about re-installing all of the S2k’s interior bits, of which there were plenty. Some still had to be modified, like the area just behind the seats:
Once all the modification was completed, it was just a matter of reinstalling the interior the same way we uninstalled it, just backwards. Except we won’t be walking backwards or listening to Pandora backwards or anything, so it’s not entirely in the reverse, but we’re sure you got the gist of it. Either way, after the reinstallation, we took ‘er around the block and rolled it a couple times to make sure the bar was capable of withstanding the forces. Once we finished doing barrel rolls for the fun of it, we parked it in the lot and got it all ready for the owner. From the inside with the top down, it looks perfectly at home with the rest of the black-on-black interior, with the harnesses providing a bit of bright contrast from the logo sewn into the belt:
Even from the outside, it looks like something you’d be able to spring for as a factory option. The clean lines of the bar do nothing to distract the eye from the already-aggressive-enough skin of the S2k. Seeing as how it’s Honda’s most track-ready vehicle from the last dozen years or so, one almost wonders how Honda HASN’T come up with factory-warranty-friendly modifications for the track. But then the word ‘lawsuit’ comes to mind, and it becomes a bit clearer as to why they may stray away from that idea altogether.
And the embossed FMU on the back of the bar is still tough to read, even with the ample cloud-covered sunlight streaming down. We prefer to use the term ‘subtle,’ however.
Finally, in other news, Zach also makes funny faces when you take poorly-timed pictures. Yet another FMU employee falls prey to an overzealous shutter finger. Who’s next?! You never know.
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