The best and worst bullbar thread.

[gimmemud]

and the old Americans.. bigger is better.

Sure thats not in Aussie mate? Truck RHD and what looks like aussie plate on it.Theres a company that makes those hideous bars in Aussie, Same as that Flatdeck Cruiser one, They have a website. terrible.

When you see the massive roo's jumping round you understand why they have them. It's even better when you see them on a new commodore

[DKZ]

On the subject of Roo-Bars, here ya go

http://img684.imageshack.us/img684/1227 ... 8x1536.jpg

[darinz]

This is off my old truck.
I've built a few now and I now always make sure there is a flat plate to act as a skid plan / ramp rather than horizontal bars. The second one I made was all tube and it use to dig in really bad even though the approach angle was really good.
The one in the photo works really well as if you hit a bump or a bog it actually lifts the truck over it rather than digging in.
It is also really light as it was made out of 3mm core 10 plate and triangulated to get the strength. the only 6mm are the end plates that attach to the chassis.
If it was on a DD rather than comp truck then you'd put more strength into the wings and add corner protection but as it was race truck, who cares!

[wjw]

I've been doing the same thing, ideally it helps you slid up objects

[T-Boon]

This is kool ?????

Images

Or not ???

Yeah, not exactly what I asked for, but oh well, its kinda grown on me in a functional way, I`d def do it better next time.

Always draw a picture of what you want first ....

I cant find a pic of my mates ones that are waaaay better!

[Lynx]

[Fakey]

[petefj40]

I thought these bars are pretty OUT there.


I guess it's a Jeep thing huh

[DMcCready]

I think I would take the roll rather than mount a stinger

Theres some sweet ideas on pirate4x4 at the moment for bumpers especially on some of the Ultra4 cars

[SP450andLE]

That's waaaay too clean

[aLUX]

Well thats definately not jewish...

[turoa]

Well thats definately not jewish...

yes it is??

[coops]

Christmas came early for the fawdy, got the new bars on yesterday!

[lincooln]

They some nice big strong looking bars there.

[Fakey]

Stingers are one of those things ya either love or hate, personally I think they look pretty cool. Thats not to say that I dont like the clean an simple approach either tho. This for example


Quite like this small simple bumer/light bar on this 75 as well


Token huge 40 with rockwells and of course a stinger

[Andrew1706]

I like mine, handles running anything over with ease:



But naturally if you hit it at the right angle it'll bend. On the left wing (right side of pic) the top plate of the wing popped up and hit the lights etc and the bottom plate popped downwards then the whole thing bent in and hit the guard

[mercutio]

Stingers are one of those things ya either love or hate, personally I think they look pretty cool. Thats not to say that I dont like the clean an simple approach either tho. This for example

did you notice if you look carefully there is a 4wd in this pic

[rokhound]

That intermediate bar looks like exhaust tube
A bar is not much good if it bends up and damages the very thing it is supposed to be protecting.
Looks like a fairly good design though, just not strong enough.


Oh and that one above, certainly looks like it would bar u up very goodly

[Pedro]

Stingers are one of those things ya either love or hate, personally I think they look pretty cool. Thats not to say that I dont like the clean an simple approach either tho. This for example

did you notice if you look carefully there is a 4wd in this pic

complete with airbags too

[Andrew1706]

That intermediate bar looks like exhaust tube
A bar is not much good if it bends up and damages the very thing it is supposed to be protecting.
Looks like a fairly good design though, just not strong enough.

Yeah, from memory the main tube is 2" OD and the middle one is 1.5" before I got made redunant I was planning on cutting out the middle bar and making it the same as the main bar. All pretty think walled stuff but you gotta realise its an 80 Series (tare 2.7t) and I wasn't casually falling on stuff, most of the damage was done with some pace. It's handled everything I've thrown at it so I'm happy.

Put it this way, much rather have the bully have a hard life then have to deal with replacing body parts and straightening chassis rails every couple of months. The one time it bends on me wasn't even off road Just the wrong angle at the right speed