Roll Cage Padding

[littletimmy]

I'm planning to wrap my cage in the BSCI padding, but I have a question. Since it's sold in halves that only wrap 180* of the bar, do I need to buy enough to wrap the whole bar or should I be ok just wrapping the half of the bar that my head might contact? It seems a bit of a waste to me to wrap the half of the bar that's facing the roof of the car if it's not necessary. Is there some safety issue that might make wrapping only half of the cage a bad idea?

Thanks in advance for the replies.

[crackler]

I wrapped the portion that my head could contact. The shop I bought it from said no need to wrap the whole bar.

YMMV

If you look close to the pic in my sig, you can see the padding around the roll hoop. (Brown stuff, that **** is NOT UV rated.)

[onosqv]

You only cover the half your head contacts (that is also all that is required by NASA/SCCA/etc). I've hardly ever seen anyone wrap the entire bar front & back.

I personally will be putting roll bar padding cover wrap around the padding since mine is starting to show brown parts like cracker's.

[Joe]

why would you wrap the cage where your head/body wont make contact?

thats a waste of perfectly good padding.

[Flicktitty]

why would you wrap the cage where your head/body wont make contact?

thats a waste of perfectly good padding.

Truth.