240sx flipping???? really????

[Nis14]

so I'm in the midst of deciding to get a roll bar. I kinda have a choice of between a street bar (4-point) or a 4-point with a harness bar and diagonal (basically the Autopower stuff).

I was just wondering how many of you have ever witnessed or seen someone flip a 240sx before?

[Ichi-Go]

I saw one flip. It was at an event and I just saw pictures online. The driver went against the concrete barrier and the car climbed it and then the back hit a seam or something and kicked it out onto the roof.

[S13Eye]

In an accident, anything can flip. Otherwise i don't see it happening. Once i was driving up I-57 when some bastard in a pickup truck tossed a full beer can out his window, and it came flying toward my car. I was doing about 70mph in a Volvo S70, when i yanked the wheel. My car went completely perpendicular to the ditch, and it didn't filp. The stability control took over, and the car straightened out efforlessly. If you nail something like a curb while going sideways, you could flip though.

[sw20>>s14]

theres a vid floating on the internet of a hawaii drift event where some s13 coupe clipped something and flipped...anythings possible...if youre thinking about getting harnesses in the near future, get a rollbar...

[yokotas13]

adn get a 7 point or 6 point or an 8 point, not a 4 point

[Nis14]

this car will not be be my daily, but it will be driven on public streets and I would rather not have a jungle gym setup, something simple and unintrustive. Also heard bad bad things about having a cage w/o a helmet can actually be a disadvantage.... but anyway I would like to hear about more accounts about 240sx flipping

[240trainee]

http://myspace-978.vo.llnwd.net/00593/87/90/593280978_l.gif

[Slidin240Wayz]

haha 8 point

[exitspeed]

If you nail something like a curb while going sideways, you could flip though.

I've done that twice both at good speeds and never flipped. Maybe lucky, but i think the odds of flipping a flipping 240 are very slim.

[240trainee]

Slim yes, impossible no. Look at the gif I posted, also, in an option video, there is a corolla that rolled. You have to hit just right to force a corner of the car down or up, you can see in the gif that the slope of the concrete barrier lifted that corner of the car up. But yea, the odds are slim.

[TheSquidd]

8 point? lol.

It's highly unlikely, but you won't be saying that when you're paralyzed.

[Dr.Baby]

just for reference, the red car posted above only had a 4 point with 1 door bar. no overhead bars at all.

[santacruisin]

There's a video floating around of an S14 that drifts too fast across an intersection, hits the curb and flips. At the track you can flip if you overshoot a turn and hit ruts/mud. One side of the car will dig in while the momentum pushes you over. On the touge you can flip by going off the side of a cliff or ramping off the mountain side of the road. A jungle gym ain't so bad. I got one in my 240, it makes you feel "all business." Less fear to try crazy stunts when you know you are protected.

[rollhard]

If you get a roll bar/cage, make sure you get the proper seat and harness combo also. You dont want to be flipping around banging along the bars. That could get ugly.

[hulkster_s13]

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[ZX88]

:( ^


ive see a video of a guy trying to drift a white fastback hiting the crub and fliping. So it possible.

[LA_phantom_240]

yup... and the chick sreams reaaaaal loud "OH SHIT!" lol... ive seen a 240 that was flipped... the guy's gf was driving it, buried the needle and lost control, at that point she was sideways, overcorrected into a deep ass ditch and started to flip... lucky for her she was ejected from the car, while it continued to roll 4-5 times.... i bought the car for 50 bucks, yanked the motor out, and the rest was no good anyways... looked about 1/3 the size of a normal 240. i was hopin to salvage the coilovers, but they were bent at the control arms...

[Burmonster]

Anything can be cause to have a roll over. ANYTHING.
If you are worried about it, install the cage(6 or higher as discussed already in this thread)

[Ichi-Go]

yup... lucky for her she was ejected from the car, while it continued to roll 4-5 times.

I dont think being ejected from a car is a good thing at all. Normally you die if you leave the car becuase it can land on you and you have nothing to break your fall but your head and back. Shes lucky to be alive.

[nsn240]

I dont think being ejected from a car is a good thing at all. Normally you die if you leave the car becuase it can land on you and you have nothing to break your fall but your head and back. Shes lucky to be alive.

It can be if the car rolls and is smashed so hard it ends up 1/3 the size of a regular 240. The exact same thing just happened to someone who is friends with alot of the guys i chill with, if he wouldnt have been thrown out of his civic, he likely would have been smashed inside the car when it flipped. Not fun stuff.

[sideview_180sx]

a roll bar with no helmet = watermelon being hit by bat. don't roll on the street with a cage if you can help it, sure you feel safe and secure with that cage, but usually you have many other safety parameters working together to keep you safe. BTW if you are going to dbl duty the car (track time/street time) the autopower is the best bet since you can keep your interior and run all the bars for events, and unbolt the harness and crossbar for street time. BTW AFAIK its illegal to drive on the street with a cage, unless you have rollbar padding (CA rules)

[LA_phantom_240]

It can be if the car rolls and is smashed so hard it ends up 1/3 the size of a regular 240. The exact same thing just happened to someone who is friends with alot of the guys i chill with, if he wouldnt have been thrown out of his civic, he likely would have been smashed inside the car when it flipped. Not fun stuff.
Same thing can be said about seatbelts... I had a friend once who refused to wear seatbelts, because once hw dozed off on the highway, and hit a bunch of trees from all different angles... messed the whole truck up, and rolled once or twice.. cant remember. But anyways, somehow he ended up in the back seat of the truck, and came out more or less unharmed. He had some massive bruises and hurt like hell for the next month, but the doctors told him that if he HAD worn his seatbelt, that he would be dead, becasue the way the truck hit a tree, he would have been pinned in the driver's seat and then when it rolled over it would have killed him...


I still wear mine in my 240... feels wierd without it. I like the feel of being strapped in your seat. I used to race go karts, so yeah.