Harness for track use on street car?

[Grant]

Eh, I'd say that's about .75 dope then...but to each his own. Hey, look at the events forum. LeMans carting is having a european car meet. #1, you should enter your car and #2 they have a lot of karting for only $50. I'm signing up tomorrow and a few of my drifter buddies are coming to. Get Nizam to come out too! And I'm going to Infinion with NASA again, Nov 11th or something, PM if interested.

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[Hit an Apex]

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Originally Posted by kredden OK, so I wasn't aware that there was a roll bar option that is only a 15 minute install/uninstall. If it is really that quick then that is a reasonable option. Which one are you using Monty? IO Port Racing Supplies: Autopower Street Roll Bar - Milano or IO Port Racing Supplies: Race Roll Bar - Milano The other thing I'll need is the ability to set up a second harness for instructors in the passenger seat. Kevin

[AR4me]

Kevin,
It may be cheaper to deal directly with Autopower - they do that:
Autopower Industries - Application List

Last year I just called them directly and ordered my complete roll cage from them. I also picked up directly from their shop since they are only 1h away.

For some reason they have a lot of Alfa jigs...
Jes

[kredden]

Thanks guys, I'll make a few calls on Monday :-).

Kevin

[bshorey]

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Originally Posted by Hit an Apex Exactly! A lot of clubs in our area require the same harness for driver and passenger. I have the race roll bar, however, I/O Port is very flexible. Last time I talked to them, adding the harness bar to the regular roll bar was a $50 option. I would highly suggest calling them and talking to them about doing that! Or, you just order their street car and take it to your local fabrication guy.

[kredden]

So I finally arrived at my solution to this question a year and a half later...and now that I read all the posts it is actually quite funny. Turns out Monty got rid of his Verde and ended up putting his rollbar on e-bay which I happened to see. Got an awesome deal on it and since I'm relatively local (4 hrs each way) I went down and picked it up, turns out he lives about a stones throw away from where I was born, talk about coincidences!

I also bought a G-Force 6-point harness from SafeRacer and am hoping to finish up the install of that today for my first track event of the season on Tuesday.

Now I just have to find a reasonable race seat that will let my big head fit the limited headroom better. My head is jammed up against the headliner with the Recaro's. In our LeMons Verde we took out the sunroof and I've got plenty of room in that but I can't just rivet in cover and go with no headliner in my DD :-). For now I took my spare recaro and simulated the breaking of the cushion rubber pad underneath (by removing it) which gives another 2 inches or so of headroom which is just enough. Not so comfortable but it works and I can stand it for about 40 minutes of driving at a rip.

Any suggestions on reasonable race seats?

Kevin

[75evo]

There are a few seats in the $300 range. Or look at craigslist.org in your area. Corbeau and Sparco makes a few budget seat.

[kredden]

Yeah, I've been watching CL in four states (they are smaller on this side ) for Sparco, Corbeau, and Kirkey for a few weeks now, so far nothing decent. Been watching e-bay as well, have a question out to one local guy from there but I think the seats will be too small.

Kevin

[Grant]

I love Corbeau TRS. They are like Recaro SRD's but cheaper...reclinable with large thigh and torso bolsters.

[kredden]

The main thing I need to have the new seat do is increase my head clearance. I've seen quite a few reclining race type seats but they look just as thick as the stock Recaro's and wouldn't do anything for my head clearance issue.

Kevin