Figured I'd post up a few shots of my new safety setup.
My old setup was a schroth 4 point quickfit. Good enough for autocross and occasional trackday. As I got a lot more serious and a lot faster on the track I wanted a legitimate setup that was still streetable.
I spent around 2k or more on my motorcycle gear, so some money on safety is a good spend. I'm currently using a Snell Motorcycle helmet for the car, but I'm grabbing a racequip helmet and zamp hans device.
I got the cage painted from Pete (tshirt driving) during his car part out. The harness is a 6 point Gforce latch and link. Seat is Corbeau FX1-pro. The seat is not FIA approved, but I don't plan on running in any SCCA or Nasa events in the near future. I'll probably grab a seat back brace as they are only $100 and then I will be able to run this seat for road racing with pretty much any org. 4 point autopower street/race rollbar. The install was very involved but it wasn't too bad. With the mounting plates on the bottom to support the sheet metal, I have faith that this will perform well enough in a roll over. If I crash hard enough to really use the roll bar for more then a harness bar, I think I'll be in a lot more trouble.
The want out of this setup is something I can use for the track, and still have the awesome carrying capacity of the car. I can carry a separate set of wheels/tires, all my tools, gear, food drinks, and 10 gallons of E30.
I had the seat on sliders, but I had to hard mount it to the floor to get the should harness angles within acceptable spec as the FIA suggest +10 degrees to -20 degrees (0 to -10 being the best). It was at around -30 degrees with the seat height I had it at, hard mounting took it to almost level, probably only -10 degrees but I haven't broken out the protractor. Still some small buttoning up to do, but its pretty much squared away.
My old setup was a schroth 4 point quickfit. Good enough for autocross and occasional trackday. As I got a lot more serious and a lot faster on the track I wanted a legitimate setup that was still streetable.
I spent around 2k or more on my motorcycle gear, so some money on safety is a good spend. I'm currently using a Snell Motorcycle helmet for the car, but I'm grabbing a racequip helmet and zamp hans device.
I got the cage painted from Pete (tshirt driving) during his car part out. The harness is a 6 point Gforce latch and link. Seat is Corbeau FX1-pro. The seat is not FIA approved, but I don't plan on running in any SCCA or Nasa events in the near future. I'll probably grab a seat back brace as they are only $100 and then I will be able to run this seat for road racing with pretty much any org. 4 point autopower street/race rollbar. The install was very involved but it wasn't too bad. With the mounting plates on the bottom to support the sheet metal, I have faith that this will perform well enough in a roll over. If I crash hard enough to really use the roll bar for more then a harness bar, I think I'll be in a lot more trouble.
The want out of this setup is something I can use for the track, and still have the awesome carrying capacity of the car. I can carry a separate set of wheels/tires, all my tools, gear, food drinks, and 10 gallons of E30.
I had the seat on sliders, but I had to hard mount it to the floor to get the should harness angles within acceptable spec as the FIA suggest +10 degrees to -20 degrees (0 to -10 being the best). It was at around -30 degrees with the seat height I had it at, hard mounting took it to almost level, probably only -10 degrees but I haven't broken out the protractor. Still some small buttoning up to do, but its pretty much squared away.
I'm going to have a local shop make me a harness bar instead. Kinda jealous, that cage woulda looked killer in my car.
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