[Dave-ROR]

Originally Posted by Dimman

Because people would rather hit their head on a padded piece of soft plastic than a hard steel tube? At high impact the little bit of foam wrapped around the roll cage (which is much closer to your head) does little.

Personally I don't think cages should be in street cars (unless you drive around with a helmet all the time, like the Stig...).

Exactly. The car's interior is a much softer surface that's farther away from you that the down tubes, main hoop, etc are. They flex, the steel bars do not.

Foam on a rollcage won't protect an otherwise unprotected head at all. I used to be one of those idiots that drove a caged car on the street, I would NEVER consider doing so now. Granted I was 23 or so when I did.

As for police attention, even driving a honda and living on one of the main street racing roads (which really sucked ass, especially in combination with what I drove, I had to avoid people following me CONSTANTLY.. fucking dumbass street racers) I never once got pulled over by the cops, even when using r comps, hawk blues that shot sparks out and a side pipe. Maybe cops around me didn't care, but I doubt a rollbar is much of an issue.