where to buy roll bar padding

[aavery]

anybody have a place in edmonton that sell roll bar padding

Andrew

[Towona]

I'd also like to know. Doesn;t ahve to be Edmonton... Red Deer or Calgary is also good.

Tony

[Armath]

Mopac in Edmonton. $5.29 or something for a 3-4ft length. they even have different colour selections

[Towona]

Does it (Mopac's padding) conform to CARS rules?


(f) Protective Padding:
Where the occupants' bodies could come into contact with the safety cage, flame retardant
padding must be provided for protection.
Where the occupants' crash helmets could come into contact with the safety cage, the padding
must comply with FIA standard 8857 2001, type A (see technical list n 23 "Roll Cage Padding
Homologated by the FIA") or SFI 45.1.

[aavery]

yeah i have seen that, it looks like a pool noodle, haha , fia is robust, i know rallysport sells it but i don't want to go all the way to calgary

[Armath]

I showed it to mike Dyer and he said its ok and that's what everyone is using

[Rexxrally]

Just to be clear, Mopac sells the pool noodle stuff, but doesn't sell the FIA stuff required where the helmet can contact the cage. For that stuff, you need to go to somebody like Shawn at Rallysport in Calgary.

The FIA stuff is expensive and has a hard shell, so you do NOT want to have it where anything other than your helmet can contact it. In other words, it's too hard to have it where your hands, arms, legs and feet will contact it. For those locations, you want the pool noodle stuff

[aavery]

so i stand corrected mopac sells sfi 45 roll padding, they had one left, they said they where getting more, "this is not the pool noodle stuff" its full fia stuff. the guy said he is getting more in some time soon. its "kirkey racing"

[ThomasChichak]

Yep the kirkey padding from mopac will do the job. Its not actually FIA approved, its SFI 45.1 but that is accepted by CARS too.
FIA is thicker, slightly square in profile, harder foam still then the SFI, each piece is stamped with a homologation number, and you pay more for it. It has to adhere to much more strict testing, exceeding SFI 45.1 to be approved. SFI is sufficient for 95% of the possible impacts, probably more then that at the speeds attainable in grassroots oriented rallying.

I'm personally not a fan of the pool noodle stuff at all. Its not melt/fire resistant in the slightest, and is far too soft to offer much protection in a moderate to high speed incident. SFI or FIA padding, though not as comfortable in a day to day scenario, is much safer when the forces are increased in the event of an "event." Pool-noodle type padding in a high-traffic area, such as the top of a door bar, will flatten and tear quite quickly aswell.

Where to put it? Roll cage padding is generally used to protect the hard-fragile-vital-organ-containing bits of you, not the squishy-fleshy extremities. For sure put it anywhere your helmet can possibly come in contact with the cage. Keep in mind, you are a lot more flexable then you think in under the high G-forces of a crash. Seat belts, even though you can hardly breathe they are so tight, will stretch, so your head could travel a lot further then you might think. You would have to stop very abruptly in a lateral direction to cause more then a bad bruise to a limb. But if it offers you peace of mind, or comfort, there is no reason you cannot add as much padding as you like. If you were to look inside a WRC car, you would see no padding at all except for where a helmet can contact the cage. But its all about making you feel safe, do what you need.