yet ANOTHER harness question..

[slammed98hatch]

Okay, so yet another harness question. now I'm not going ask if I can run them to the rear seat bolts, etc etc. I know to do it properly you need a roll cage with a harness bar. now my question is, when you have the cage with the harness bar. then what is the proper way to install them? I've seen them two ways:

1. Through the bucket seats, and over the harness bar, and down into the rear seats. like discussed before, only with a cage and built in harness bar. Sort of like OC_Civic has it.

2. Or I've seen them ran through the bucket seats, and wrapped around the harness bar. This doesn't run them back through the rear seats.

I was wondering which is better, or if they are both safe just personal perference as to how you want the harnesses run.

Thanks for your help!

 

[itsmycookie]

they should be attached directly to the harness bar.

i believe from the seat holes to the harness bar is suspose to be no more than 6 inches.

if u tie them to the rear seats the belt will stretch too far during an accident and you will not be safe.


run them to the harness bar. thats what its for.

 

[slammed98hatch]

Okay but how are they attached to the harness bar?? obviously they are wrapped around but how are they fastened??

This Autopower bar would be sufficient enough, correct?

 

[itsmycookie]

yup that bar will work.

as for fastening the belt here;s a pic of how it should be done. as u can see its securely mounted to the harness bar

 

[34_civicracer_3]

my friends got a racing seat and what he did was juss took out the back seat and went through the seat holes and bolted them straight back to the metal under the back seat or if u dont wanna take out ur back seat like me alls i did was went through the seat holes and bolt them straight to the floor under my seat so they arent in the way and thats without the roll cage or bars and i think that works just as fine

 

[itsmycookie]

my friends got a racing seat and what he did was juss took out the back seat and went through the seat holes and bolted them straight back to the metal under the back seat or if u dont wanna take out ur back seat like me alls i did was went through the seat holes and bolt them straight to the floor under my seat so they arent in the way and thats without the roll cage or bars and i think that works just as fine

bad info u be providing brudduh.

harness without a roll cage/bar = unsafe. since it doesn;t allow u to move side to side like a normal seat belt in the incident of a roll over your head will be smashed straight down, probably killing u.

ALSO u cannot have that much extra belt from the seat holes to where they are mounted.

this is why, seat belts stretch, they were designed to. in an accident your normal seat belt will catch imediatly, not allowing slack in the belt. it allows the seat belt to stretch some so it slows ur body down in the accident. if it didn;t stretch it;d probably cut into u.

the more slack, the more the belt will stretch. so having moe than the recommended 6 inchs in belt means you;re going to be moving farther and farther out of the seat, which could lead to your body hitting the steering wheel/dash or excessive whiplash from the airbag hitting u while u were too close to it.

if u get a harness u MUST have a roll bar/cage and u MUST mount it correctly to be safe.

 

[slammed98hatch]

I alrady know I"m only running a harness with the cage. no cage, no harness. just trying to figure out how you mount the harnesses with the bars now.

 

[itsmycookie]

see those little metal things? right in front of the bar, i;m not sure what they;re called but thats one way of doing it.