here is the last test fit then off for paint gloss black tell me what ya think and lets not get into the no role bar thing that will be under construstion next.



before welding



my welds



profesional welds






tight fit


Modified by cstay at 5:30 AM 2/26/2005

 

Thats gonna' look nice painted. That bar is so massive, the car crusher doesn't have sh*t on your sol.

 

Are you ARC welding that?

Rich

 

MIG the professional wels are really nice but those pics dont do they justice my welds are good not the best but im not a pro

 

Looks nice. Why did you use such big material though? that stuff's bigger than your roll bar would need to be.

 

half the reason is that id rather over doo then under doo the othe half is most of the stuff i had lying around the thing is built for a big rid sounds like one of those big metal drums they hit in asian movies when u drop it

 

looks good, I made one very similar to yours over the summer.

 

i hope ming comes out as well question how did u make it look good where the bar meets the plastic molding

 

so what would i have to do to make this for my accord? is it recomended to have 4 points? where is the strongest point on the b pillar to mount to?

 

i mounted from each shoulder strap mount where the seatbelt loops around to get up to your shoulder then on the bottom when your lap strap ends this way the assembly wont rotate under force

 

That looks great and all but how about for us tall people that can't sit that close to the wheel?

 

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It was a bitch. I put the bar in, and then mocked up where the plastic molding would go and kinda traced onto it and cut it out. It didnt really come out that good.

 

I think that the height of you bar is to high, I tought it was supposed to be 90* back from your shoulders or up to 10* less. O well, there arent many optioins for us sol owners in the harness bar area but I hear sparco is putting one out for any 92-00 civic. Looks nice though, gloss black is going to look really nice.

 

im 5,11 and i have more than enough room but if u are tall or a thug you would need to put a small bend on each end i was trying to get that done but nobody locally could

 

SlammedSol:

Your harnesses are at a bad angle. They are supposed to angle down if anything, definitely not upwards.

 

Dont you have it the other way around? If they are down in back, the forward force will compress your spine? Thats what I thought anyway in my visits to the RR&AC forum...
I think both bars look very nice, and something like this may be making its way into the S2000 fairly soon, but mainly for camera mounting

 

From SCCA 2005 General Competition Rules -

"The shoulder harness shall be mounted behind the driver and supported above a line drawn downward from the shoulder point at an angle of twenty (20) degrees with the horizontal."

So the shoulder harness is supposed to be mounted twenty degrees downward from where the shoulder harness exits the rear of the seat.

 

If you were to mandrel bend the bar so it goes down and back are you sacrificing alot of structurak stuff (bad word usage). The sparco design does that and the two bars coming off the main harness bar are also bent to provide more room and meet the main bar further back with out hitting anything. What is the general thickness you want to use when constructing one of these?

 

It's fine having that bar bent to leave more room for the driver. Having the driver as far away from the steering wheel as is comfortable is optimal. Thickness depends on sanctioning body and materials used. A 1.5" x .120" DOM tube would work well though for mild steel.

 

I believe he used Schedule 80 1.5" pipe( ), as if this is the same guy, he picked my brain on a few things
On the harness mounting angle issue, perhaps I was thinking that mounting the harness down on the floor was NOT the good thing to do...

 

Nice looking bars...

 

acualy its 2 inch shedul 80 the 20 foot piec that i had to buy was 108 lbs i read somwhere that u could have upward of about 20* bit only 4* negative i did want to put a bend in the bar but this was much easier and everything worked well as is

 

opinions on this should i put this bar in to hold the harnesses in place? ps thats my GF hand not ming

 

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I was going to do that, but found it wasnt needed.

 

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You have it backwards, sorta. The optimal is 10 to 20 degrees downslope from a plane perpendicular to the shoulders/spine. Anything over 0 degrees downslope is dangerous and illegal.

Of course the illegality of it is null.