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08-11-2017, 02:37 PM | #1 |
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Excited to be waiting to schedule a custom roll bar installation!
Next step for track days: a harness. Oh, now a harness bar. NO, a roll bar. And race seats. Then the harness.
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Do you street drive the car? You may want to check the legalities for your state and safety implications if you do.
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It's a bad idea to have a roll bar and a roll bar imo
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YMMV, but I learned the hard way w/ my previous track car, a C5Z06. It had race buckets, a harness bar, and harnesses. It was great on track, but I hated driving it on the street. These cars already have great seats, and I'm looking forward to enjoying my new BRZ as a daily driver and street car w/ no interior changes, rock hard suspension setups, or super loud exhaust.
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My track sessions dictated a harness over the 3points. Harnesses required seats and a bar, and a half cage is recommended over just a bar. I expect to swap seats when I have many days between track events. It will be a hassle, but driving this car is worth it!! Sent from my XT1254 using Tapatalk |
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Of course one must obey the track regs, but the discussion reminds me that out of all the wrecked BRZs I've seen on this forum, I've never seen one with a crushed roof, or even a broken windshield. (uh-oh, here comes Tcoat . . .)
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If you're running a cage on the street, you should be using those race seats and harnesses full time as well - for your own safety.
The factory 3 points and seats will NOT contain you sufficiently in the event of an accident. If your head hits that roll bar without a helmet on -even if the cage is padded- you will be a vegetable for life. Go to the IIHS and watch their crash test videos if you are not familiar with how much/far/extreme bodies move in an accident. I wasn't. It's shocking, really. One of my client's had it happen to an employee of his. Bounced his head off the roll bar in what was otherwise a pretty tame collision. Guy was never the same again - could no longer do his job so he had to let him go. It caved part of his skull in, causing brain damage. As an aside, it's also not a good idea to repeatedly bolt/unbolt from the mounting points in composite seats. It can weaken them. Unbolting the brackets from the floor would probably be a better route to go, any time you need to remove them to work on the car if they're in the way. Last edited by Turbo; 06-24-2018 at 09:46 PM. |
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