[DeTomaso] roll bar installation

[MikeLDrew at aol.com]

In a message dated 9/24/10 18 09 3, boyd411 at gmail.com writes:


> Will the installation of a hall Style  or Percision Performance style 
> roll
> bar interefere with the AC lines running through the rocker box spaces?
> 
>>>No, although it would be more of a challenge to mount one of those bars 
on an early car that doesn't have an inertia reel opening in the inner 
rocker; you would probably have to cut into the rocker in order to get nuts on 
the back side of the bolts.   You would also want to take care to ensure the 
ends of the bolts didn't rub the A/C lines.


> >Do
> the ac compressor lines run through the rocker boxes or through the center
> console  (where the water lines run?)
> 

>>>On the early cars, without inertia reel lap belts, they run through the 
passenger-side rocker box.   Starting in 1972 the cars came with inertia 
reels, which forced the A/C lines to be re-routed through the center, alongside 
the heater pipes.

Mike