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I'd love to have a 4 or 5 point harness but can't live with a harness bar. might this be what I'm looking for? (well, minus the $500 price tag for a pair...)
thoughts?
4 point harness w/o bar (cross post)
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Re: 4 point harness w/o bar (cross post)
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I'd love to have a 4 or 5 point harness but can't live with a harness bar. might this be what I'm looking for? (well, minus the $500 price tag for a pair...)
thoughts?
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Harnesses make a huge difference in racing events. If you haven't used them before, you'll be amazed at how much effort you expend just keeping your torso upright during hard cornering, etc. You really exert a huge effort hanging on to the wheel, with your leg against the door, and so on. As an exercise, next time you're tearing ass around a track, bring your wife along and watch her moving around (assuming she doesn't have a harness). You'll see how much a person moves around when they don't have their hands and arms locked onto the wheel.Mr Kleen wrote:they're not for use on the road, only for track or autoX use. in the event of a serious accident you can't slide sideways out of the way of a crushing roof.
I'd love to have a set for track days but $500 is more than a NASA HPDE track weekend or 1/3 the cost of a set of coilovers.
So installing a harness can actually improve your lap times substantially if you don't have one already. Just a thought. By the by, these harnesses have been around for a while. We had them on a 95 Neon ACR back when we were doing SSD.