| Re: How to... Racing Harness in a C4? |
Subject: Re: How to... Racing Harness in a C4? by SpectatorRacing on 2008/9/22 20:44:30 Ahhh, we're revisiting the crash safety topic...near and dear to my heart. Bottom line - don't use 5 or 6 point belts with stock seats. If I'm correctly following what Brian is suggesting for the anti-sub strap, it may work. But in any stock C4 seats I've seen you would have to wrap the shoulder belts around the seat. Quite simply, in a collision, they'll split apart and you'll go flying forward into all sorts of unpleasant objects. Harnesses are designed to work with a racing seat with holes in the back to keep the belts aligned in the proper position over your shoulders, and prevent them from sliding apart in a crash. Nothing else will do. I've heard of supplemental belts that hook across your chest and supposedly keep the shoulder belts together around a stock seat, but I have not seen crash test data on this idea so I wouldn't trust it to remain in the proper position during an impact. Until a belt supplier (like the ones mentioned by Bill above) designs this into their products and does the extensive testing necesary I'll consider it ineffective. Unless you spend the time and money and do a 5/6 point system correctly you're much better off with your 3 point stock seatbelts and airbag system. I foolishly ran 5 points over my stock seat for years, I can't believe how lucky I am that I never had a forward collision with that set-up. |
