whats so bad about bolting the harness to the floor? what a good place to bolt it to if you can by a harness bar or a rollcage

 

the racing seat harnesses usually are mounted to the cross bar ( shock towar bar... because you want teh seat belt tension higher instaed of lower ( like being bolted to a floor...

i believe ... this is what the grape vine tells mea nyone else?

 

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Right idea, wrong location. The ideal place to locate the shoulder straps are to the crossbar of a roll cage. It's the bar that runs right behind the seats. The reason for this is that if the straps are mounted way lower, say the floor behind the seat, it will compress your spine in a front end collision.

Another good reason for having the rollcage with the harness is that in rollover accidents you can be seriously injured if you have a harness with no rollcage. A stock seatbelt system is designed to allow your body to move towards the middle of the car if the roof is ever collapsed. If you're wearing a harness and the roof collapses, the harness will hold you in place and result in a broken neck/head injuries.

So that's just something to think about. As far as the lower harness straps, I think it's ok to mount those to the floor with plates on the underside for added strength.

 

whats a good web site to get one of them bolt in cages for a 4 door

 

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