First car iv owned thats not a ford

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Re: First car iv owned thats not a ford

Post by germ » 26 Feb 2009 06:34 pm

unless its a very big and very heavey hammer :D
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Re: First car iv owned thats not a ford

Post by jtbo » 26 Feb 2009 10:48 pm

germ wrote:unless its a very big and very heavey hammer :D
It would not be a hammer then, it would be sledgehammer :lol:
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I think that roll cage + other safety stuff or no rollcage and other safety equipment. Something between does not sound too good for me.
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Re: First car iv owned thats not a ford

Post by MJ » 26 Feb 2009 11:02 pm

I'd really like to see some actual evidence on this, as I can clearly see how both points of view would be right.

Yes, a bucket seat and harness would seem to hold you in much better than a standard seat, so should be better, and if the back is higher than the top of your head it should help stop the rood moving some more.

On the other hand, yes I can see how you could be pushed down to a slouch position, or sideways to the centre of the car with a normal belt, protecting your head from the roof, but surly a force capable of squashing the roof sufficiently far would kill anyone, whether or not they were then pushed out of the way or not.

I'm not convinced either way - I think I'll stick to driving safely and avoiding the need to be an case study of what happens with a standard setup in a roll :P
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Re: First car iv owned thats not a ford

Post by jtbo » 26 Feb 2009 11:22 pm

All I know is, make sure you don't roll without roll cage :P
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Re: First car iv owned thats not a ford

Post by volvosneverdie » 27 Feb 2009 12:11 am

jtbo wrote:All I know is, make sure you don't roll without roll cage :P
give me a fortnight after i pass my test.

i'll be able to tell you exactly what happens when you roll with no buckets, no rollcage, no harnesses and while you were trying to eat a massive massive bacon sanwhich while driving with your knees.
round a roundabout.
in the snow.
at 50 miles an hour.
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Post by jtbo » 27 Feb 2009 12:58 am

Rolling from 50 miles per hour in b-kadett (that is Vauxhall of around 1975 for you) will result you not remembering whole thing, actully not remembering even getting up that day, it results weird panes and quite odd feeling when you found out that you are strapped to bed while several hoses are plugged into your body.

That is my experience from subject, but don't know how much better it would be in 300 or when sitting on driver's seat as I was just a kid on passenger seat. Of course as of now I can remember some things, but it still is just random flashes here and there.

Rollcage is not that bad thing really :roll:
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Re: First car iv owned thats not a ford

Post by volvosneverdie » 27 Feb 2009 01:02 am

jtbo wrote:Rolling from 50 miles per hour in b-kadett (that is Vauxhall of around 1975 for you) will result you not remembering whole thing, actully not remembering even getting up that day, it results weird panes and quite odd feeling when you found out that you are strapped to bed while several hoses are plugged into your body.

That is my experience from subject, but don't know how much better it would be in 300 or when sitting on driver's seat as I was just a kid on passenger seat. Of course as of now I can remember some things, but it still is just random flashes here and there.

Rollcage is not that bad thing really :roll:
im getting one.

im allergic to having several hoses plugged into my body.
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Post by jtbo » 27 Feb 2009 01:10 am

volvosneverdie wrote: im getting one.

im allergic to having several hoses plugged into my body.
Yes, person has only so many holes and if each one of them has a hose, it won't be nice at all :lol:
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Re: First car iv owned thats not a ford

Post by Chris_C » 27 Feb 2009 12:14 pm

MJ wrote: but surly a force capable of squashing the roof sufficiently far would kill anyone, whether or not they were then pushed out of the way or not.
Friend of mine rolled a 106, and flatted the windscreen to match the rake of the bonnet pretty much. There was a distinct head shaped lump in the roof where it folded round him, and he walked away from it. He's no stranger than he used to be either ;)

Having seen a few rolled cars, I'm not keen to try it tbh
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Re: First car iv owned thats not a ford

Post by filthyjohn » 27 Feb 2009 01:46 pm

I reckon you're far better off rolling a 340 than a 106. But as nobody does crash testing of that sort, we'll never know for sure. Does someone with a big brain want to work out how fast a 340 has to be going to exert the same force dynamically as a JCB does statically? Just a comparable level of energy, within an order of magnitude perhaps? Take 5tonnes as the mass of the digger maybe?
I'd have a go, except years of licking windows in a car factory have driven all knowledge of kinematics from my fragile mind.
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Re: First car iv owned thats not a ford

Post by foggyjames » 12 Mar 2009 03:45 am

Bump.

See this is what a love about V3M. If this was Turbobricks, we'd have had 4 pages of "OMG....A WOMAN!" and...

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...but no, this is V3M, and (apart from Kaos) what do we do for nearly two pages? Talk about roll cages and harnesses. Good effort, guys. That takes dedication. :lol:

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Re: First car iv owned thats not a ford

Post by classicswede » 12 Mar 2009 10:32 am

filthyjohn wrote: But as nobody does crash testing of that sort, .
Not seen Hugh (5lab) on here for a long time - he probable has the most 300 related crash testing experiance that I am aware of :lol:
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Re: First car iv owned thats not a ford

Post by Scottyj » 12 Mar 2009 12:03 pm

Seen that car rolling round quite a bit, only just heard its changed owners lol ....

If you see me rolling round in a battleship grey 340 gice me a bib! lol

Car looks good....


And im just avoiding the rollcage/harness argument lol

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Re: First car iv owned thats not a ford

Post by MJ » 12 Mar 2009 11:54 pm

I wonder how Hugh is. He's also our Dulux paint expert ;)
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Re: First car iv owned thats not a ford

Post by shifty babe » 08 Oct 2009 12:26 pm

i forgot about this post and just found it accidentally lol


im not sure what to think about buckets and no rollcage now, i still have buckets in the fiesta but there taller than the top of my head, not sure whether that would save me if i rolled but but for now i dont intend on trying.


anyway, yea this car changed hands pretty early this year. my mate scott now owns it and is pretty sick at getting it sideways.


i came back on here because me and the bf have just brought another.

this time its more subtle, silver and black, set of cheap black alloys and lowered. il get some pics up later. its still the 1.7 340 but with a 2lt carb this time. just needs jetting in. we also have landrover 110 shocks on the way :) il put a post on it up in a bit :)

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