CLUB DE MIATA

ROLLBAR Install.
1. Move seats forward out of the way.
2. Slide seatbelt from guide on the top of each seat so it will drop out of your way.


3. Remove the plastic cap at the seatbelt tower (to do this pull the plastic rivet with your finger nails and then pull cap off). Pull off the plastic cover.
4. Pull the plastic sill (it pulls straight up and simply, unsnaps)


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Pull plastic that extends from seat belt tower down to sills (again, it is just clipped on and snaps out )




The front half of the plastic cover over the factory roll hoops simply snaps off by pulling forward but the back half is screwed on with two screws

that must be pulled as shown.



Once the covers are removed as shown below, you need to pull the windblocker. It is attached in the same manner as the sills and pulls straight up to remove.


Pull the small panel at the back of the center console below the compartment with the gas lid pull. Pull cover for release that releases top from stowed position. Now you are ready to pull the main panel behind the seat if you have pulled all the pop rivets that hold it in place. Separate it from the tabs that hold it to the small plastic panel behind the factory hoops and remove. Note that it has a notch that fits under the rear corner of the center console just below the smaller panel you pulled in the first picture below and you want to remember that when you reinstall it later. You also want to pull the plastic panel that fits across the back behind the factory hoops and which is connected by white plastic tabs to the factory cross hoop cross brace (look close at the sides and you can see that you can simply unhook the white tabs at the ends of this panel before poping the panel off the remaining tabs that hold it to the cross brace). Finally, remove the latch assembly by removing the two 10mm bolts that hold it to the cross member of the factory hoop assembly.



In the picture above you can see ALL the bolts that are involved in this install. As you can see in this shot, the factory bar has 6 connection points, 3 per side, with four bolts at the top on each side, three at the pan, and two more on a side brace just above the pan connection. That's actually 8 bolts per side for the factory bar and one nut. First, remove two 10mm bolts for seat belt guides and then remove the eight bolts and one nut that holds factory hoops in and remove factory hoops.



Once you have removed factory hoops you need to pull the white tabs on the back of the cross member which held the rear plastic panel in place, you will reinstall these on the rear plastic panel so that it will plug onto the new rollbar cross member once that new bar is installed. Before you reinstall that panel you will need to trim the alignment finger that juts out from the center of it and into a hole on the factory hoops (this will make sense when you line it up alternatively with the old hoops and then the connection new Rollbar Lower NEW

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Rollbar into the car and hand thread all the bolts as shown. Hand thread the two nuts at the pan Reinstall the seatbelt guides as shown here

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12. Reinstall factory mechanism for holding the top in place when down. Note that your new bar has indents to line this up perfectly for you and holes are all predrilled and threaded nuts are welded in from below so that all you need to do is line it up and thread the bolts. Torque bolts to 25 foot pounds, but just 15 foot pounds for the two nuts that hold to the pan.




Lay main rear panel back in car against the bar and mark portions that must be trimmed to clear the new beefier bar and trim. Do the same with panel that fits across behind the bar.






Now reinstall factory rear main panel. As shown in second picture below you want to guide the latch release through the panel after first tucking bottom section under the rear of the center console

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I am pointing here at one of the tabs connecting the main rear panel and the panel that fits across behind the rear cross member. Preserve as many of these as you can during your trim work and be careful to line them up to snap the front and rear sections back together again.


Tape up bar to ready it for install of the provided fiberglass cap. The tape is to protect the paint while you get the cap installed. Attach double stick tape to back of cap and install cap and remove tap....and you are done!






Brian GoodwinGood-Win Racing