I'm planning to do the same thing to my '00 S. I read somewhere in here before that someone was able to remove and paint the roll bar but for some reason, I cannot search for that post again. If anyone knows about the post I'm referring to, please let me know. Thanks!
Richard
JT, found this in the other forum:
http://www.renntech.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=4659