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Correct. It's more structurally efficient to bring tubes together at one node, but occasionally (like we're doing) they don't meet at the same point for fitment reasons. That corner of the cage is pushed very tightly up into the roof of the car, and the A-pillar bar has to be moved outward a little bit to allow for the A-pillar bar to clear the chassis. If they were to meet at one node, the roll bar would have to be about 1.5" lower, which would also bring the A-pillar bar closer to the driver's head. Given our larger tube size, we can handle the slight shear loading put into the roll bar at that location. This is one of those things we're only able to do because we have a 3D scan of the car.
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