- Everybody ready? Everybody good? all right. (hand saw buzzes) Have you ever seen a guy
driving a convertible with his head sticking above
windshield like an idiot? What do you think happens
when he flips that thing. Exactly what think happens, happened. So today we're gonna try to
preserve my beautiful melon. We're gonna install a quality roll bar in the Money Pit miata and we've got this $65
roll bar in this miata. We're gonna talk about the
differences between the two and then good measure we're
gonna drop the $65 roll bar on its head and see how it holds up, Or probably doesn't. (machine whirs) Oh god! - I'm Zach and this is
Money Pit, see what happens. (introductory music) Big thanks to CSR2 for sponsoring this weeks episode of Money Pit. You guys know I love road trips. I've driven this American made
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one's going to work for us? - I sure don't. (metal clanks) Bummer! (background music) Dang Man I need to lose some weight. So, before we show you what happens if you find yourself upside
down with a cheap roll bar. Let's talk about what
makes a good roll bar, a good roll bar that I'm willing to install
in a car I drive everyday. We've got these two roll bars here. And this one cost about $65 I bought it on eBay and we're gonna be installing
it into the crusher miata that's in the backyard. This one I got from Zerek Fabrication and it costs about $600 and this is the one I'm
clearly gonna be installing in our beloved Money Pit miata. First off you shouldn't be able to pick up a roll bar that easily. There's just not much material here. And the material that it is made out of it says on the website,
is a 304 stainless. Which isn't really ideal for a roll bar but I guess it could be
okay if it was thick enough. So I bet you I can bend this whole thing. - [Eddie] Don't ruin it. (Laughs) So this is an example of
a poor bolt in design. So the real roll bar oh God! So much heavier that's how you know. There's a lot more material here. So this is made out of
a lot stronger material. It's a one and three quarter
inch heat treated dom. D-O-M stands for "Drawn Over Mandrel" It's a really uniform form of tubing. So it starts from a flat sheet of metal at whatever thickness you want
the wall to be on your tube and then it's drown over mandrel, forced into a tube shape and the seam is wielded up. This is the material you want
your bar to be made out of. And look at these mounting feet. These are some fat thick plates. They use big, fat, thick,
strong grade 8 hardware. We'll drill some holes and then this will sandwich the chassis in between the roll bar and you just clamp that thing down at all four pads here. So we've got the right material but it's not just about material it's also about the way
the thing's designed. You see this bar right here this is what we call triangulation. This helps strengthen
this overall structure. Without this bar this kinda rectangle area wouldn't be as strong as it is but with this, it's very strong. If you look at the thing from a profile you can see when it's mounted into the car it'll create kind of a triangle. So this gives you a lot more strength in terms of front to back. You see what I'm talking about here? This things just gonna fold over. If you're sliding on this thing I don't think it's gonna move. I think it's just gonna do it job. And that's why I trust it and that's why I'm putting
it on the Money Pit miata. Look at it, I mean think about it. Touch it. Feel it. That's gotta be stronger. Now let's go install it. See how well that goes. (soft background music) (foreign accent) I lost
the keys. I don't know. (music fades) all right so to get started on the install of the real roll bar
on the Money Pit miata first thing I'm gonna do
is take these seats out, then we'll take this bar out get this carpet and interior
bits out of the way. And then we'll be down to
what we need to be down to. We're gonna have to cut some metal today, we're gonna have to cut some plastic, which means it's gonna be a fun day. (upbeat music) If you're gonna do a roll
bar and you're gonna do seats it's probably a good idea to
always to the roll bar first. Cause the roll bar can
create some fitting issues with seats. So it would suck to buy a
set of seats and install them just to find out that they
don't work with your roll bar. Do the roll bar first and then you can kind of
figure out what seats with work before buying them, hopefully. Oh yeah! Well that was easily. So first thing we get to
cut today is the seat belts. We're gonna free them of their loops so that we can install these seat belt retainers
that came with the roll bar. Zip zip. (saw buzzes) (soft music) (drill rattles) (metal clinks) We got our plastic popper out and we're gonna pop our plastic
without breaking any of it. (stutters) we'll see. (pops interior) All right, so this thing I'm
pretty sure is gonna need cut in half kind of
somewhere right in here so it fits with the bar. So we'll do that later. Okay so right up here, in here is where we're gonna have to trim. So might need to do that
with a soft top kinda open. But before we get there, I'm gonna get all of this stuff out of the way. These need to be popped
off of this wall here So the roll bar can actually slide Between the chassis and
these wires and cables. All right now with all
these wires out of the way. We're gonna lift the soft top so I should be able to get a little bit more room under the carpet and mark out the areas
that I need to trim. We're gonna cut some stuff. (soft music) (saw whirls) (metal scratching) All right, so here's what we're gonna do I don't want spray paint in there Because I'd have to tape
a bunch of stuff off Cause I would spray paint everywhere. Cause I don't really care how it's looks I just want it to be protected. I'm just gonna spray
some black spray paint Nice and heavy on the
sponge so it's saturated and then I'll just dab
it onto to the bear metal enough to get it coated. Once, maybe twice. Then that should be good enough. All right that's the last dab. Now while that dries I'm gonna take out the
lower seat belt bolt. Cause that's part of the
mounting system to the bar. Then once we get that out and that's dry We slide the bar in and see how it fits. You want help? No I'm just kidding, just for the shot I'll do it, I'll do it
myself, I'll do it by myself. (metal clinks) - [Eddie] That sounded expensive. - If only there were someone
here that could help me. I got it, I got it, I got it. Let me suffer. All right so the bar is in. We've got these little seat belt bolts in. So it kinda held in place and it's exactly where it's
gonna be for its final position. So now all we gotta do is
drill out all these holes and in the mounting
place through the chassis and then sandwich everything
up with the hardware. But that's gonna be the tricky part. I'm gonna jack the car up, pop off the rear wheels so
we can see in there real well see what we're doing. So the holes on this upper mounting point are pretty hard to get to. So you can go in with a die grinder or with kind of a long drill bit. I'm gonna so with the drill bit method, and we'll see how it goes. I think it's gonna work out. But one of these holes
is tougher that the rest so hopefully I'll be able
to get these front two And these from those two
understand where the third one is and then do it from below. (machine drilling) Yeah it went straight through. Looks like we're gonna be just fine. That hole right there,
is ready for the bolt. (drilling intensifies) So there is a hole already
here from the grommet. And it kind of overlaps with
the third hard to get to hole. I can see it, which is sweet. (machine drills) All right we got the rear
mounting tabs all mounted up. All the holes are holed and
all the bolts are bolted. So all we gotta do is, what
seems like the easy part and finish up these front pads. Drill those holes, nut
some bolts and that's it. I meant we gotta our
everything back together, we gotta trim the interior piece. So we gotta do all kinda stuff. But the bar is almost totally installed. So let's make some more holes. (drill whirs) (mumbling) The cage is in. Damn it, it's not a cage, the bar is in. The roll bar is in and
that feels super sturdy. I mean this thing is
part of the chassis now. It might as well be rolted in. Rolted in? I don't think that's a word. Okay so with the bar in,
now it's time to head back the other way and put
things back together. So I'm gonna put the wheels back on. Get this thing back on the ground and then we're gonna work on the interior. And then we're gonna have to
trim some interior pieces, I don't think it's gonna be a big deal. (upbeat music) (machine drills) Now the fact is we have
put a metal structure closer to my head which
is a little bit concerning for driving around, not wearing a helmet. So I have to be considerate
of that when I choose my driving position
and try to keep my head as far from this as possible. That is something to consider. I mean you're putting
metal closer to your head. So if you aren't okay
with taking that risk, maybe don't, don't get a roll bar. All right that's one roll bar down. Let's go install the second one. I have a feeling this is
gonna go a lot quicker. I just looked at the hardware pile and it's like three bolts. (upbeat music) Here she is, the free-ata. It's a huge piece of trash. And that's why I got it in the backyard cause I'm trash people. So yeah we got this chassis for free and we're gonna smash it. It's already pretty smashed, we're gonna smash it a little more. All to find out whether or not this thing would do anything if you found yourself upside down on top of it. I gotta say I don't think
it's gonna do anything. And I just got the hardware pack out and well you just saw all the hardware we used to install the other one. This is all the hardware for this one. (fake crowd gasps) The good news is it looks like it's gonna he super easy to install. It used four bolts And they line up with existing holes. So way easier to install
than the other one. But through detriment. Yo but, look at what this
chassis came with like $4.27 (machine drills) (laughs) - [Eddie] Did you just break it? - Almost man. Well I guess that's what you get. I mean are you convinced yet? Is anybody still hanging
on to this argument? Listen my position on this
whole thing is just bolstered. I knew this thing was gonna be trash but it's almost worse than I expected. Look at that. Like are you kidding me? Compare that to what we
did in the real miata. I mean that's part of the chassis, you ain't gone break that. You ain't gone bend that. All right, so if me shaking
and tugging on some roll bars hasn't convinced you If talking about what
makes a good roll bar and looking at these things
hasn't convinced you, then you know there's
only one thing left to do. And it's gonna take that turd of a miata down to Forsberg and drop it on it's head. You know there's no chance that we're gonna miss
an opportunity to grab a free miata chassis, a $65 roll bar and go dump the thing off the forklift. You know we're not missing that. Let's go do it, see what happens. (indistinct yelling) (loud metal clanks) (beep) We made it down here to Chris and Dylan. Coolest dudes we know and also coincidentally
the only dudes we know with a forklift, they can help us do this. We've got the trash miata on the forklift And once we get it upside down, we're gonna drop it on that $65 roll bar. And I think it's just gonna
fold right over immediately. - Safety first. - All right boys, how the
hell are we gonna do this? - Well we're not quite sure. - Nice. - We haven't exactly figured that out yet. - I like that. I like your style. - We do have this forklift.
We got some tires. So first we're gonna get it on the roof and since we have so much
faith in that roll bar We take it off so we don't
scratch it and wreck it. Get this thing in it's roof, lift it up and then I heard you're
gonna be the brave soul to go under there and put it back in. - That's right. - That's your job. - Came up with a cool
little pulley system. all right so I'll add some
engineering effects to it. - Nice. What revision is that? How many stupid ideas did you have to-- - That's about the third revision. - Yeah. - Okay, sweet. Then I
trust the third revision. I think we're good here. (machine drilling) all right that should do it. I think we're ready to
get this thing in the air. Drop it. - All right so basically
we gotta figure out how to get this thing
as stable as possible. So we set the extended
fork on top of the roof so that we can kinda take some of the load off of the forklift. And this is gonna get attached
to the bumper of my truck, or the hitch on my truck. And
we're gonna lift that car up. So hopefully it works. - Hell yeah hopefully we don't
just pull this thing over. - Yeah that's what we're worried about. - It is a possibility. - It is a possibility. (machine whirs) - Oh boy, hang on, hang on, hang on, stop We're moving the forklift. - See it's starting to pull. - Yeah. (dramatic music) - Oh boy! - Oh God. (loud thud) - Thought that might happen. (loud thud) (indistinct yelling) - (groans disappointingly) Well we're gonna figure out how to get this thing upright but-- - With a forklift. - Yeah for real. - Well it seems like your roll
bar did a pretty good job. - Remember when I said
things might go sideways. This is the sideways I meant. - [Eddie] so what's
the recovery plan here? - Well we got the neighbor's
forklift over here, and we're gonna aim to
keep that one upright. So we're gonna use this to pick this up. We're gonna tie Dylan's
truck back to the forklift. So when we lift this one up, if we do, it doesn't just rock it
over to the other side and flip and crush whatever is over there. - [Eddie] You ever seen
a flipped forklift? - Yeah, right here. (upbeat music) - Okay, we're not doing anything anymore. (clapping) - Good work all round (upbeat music) - Securing an anchor this time, to the heaviest object that I have. (indistinct background chatter) (everybody laughs) - It hasn't even like, hasn't even budged. - Yeah this is a set up. - All right plan number two worked. The miata is suspended and the forklift is
upright, which is awesome. So time to get your final answers in. What do you think is gonna happen when we drop this $65 roll bar. I know what I think. The only left to do is find out, so. - All right wanna do the honors? (saw buzzes) - All right. Gonna see what happens. Is everybody ready? Everybody good? All right. (saw buzzes) (loud thud) (laughs) That was sweet, and guess what? I can see that roll bar is smashed in. And so is the windshield I think. (loud thud) Dang! (loud thud) (everybody laughs) - My boy, you're dead! - [Dylan] His foot is in his ear hole. - Oh my god, he's so flexible. Well the roll bar bent forward and smacked my guy right
over the head, so that sucks. It also, the windshield bent in half, which kinda surprising. (loud thud) (laughs) - That bracket bent the floor. - Oh yeah. - like this is terrible design. Look at how it just pivoted like that. - Just built to bend, baby. - Straight in the ground-- - I mean I'm honestly surprised that all four brackets are still intact. - Yeah. - Oh yeah the six bolts, it's
really holding them together. - I know I'm not surprised at all by this. But the windshield, man! This is bent right over. Yeah seriously. - Cage your miata, no matter what. - Yeah seriously now I wanna (mumbling). Yeah, hey, thank you guys for coming up with a hilariously sketchy way to do this. Really appreciate it. - It was sketchy to the max at first. - I love it. - Clearly. - You gotta find your max
sketchiness and dial it back. That's how I always operate. - We certainly did. - Good times boys. - all right so thank you guys so much for helping me with this. Thank you guys for watching. If you wanna see more of these
guys ridiculous shenanigans, check out Blackout on Gumout. We'll throw a link in
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