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Posted by: tadink Mar 12 2013, 03:46 PM

HI guys -

anyone have any pix of how you have run your shoulder straps over the harness bar?

straight loop over the top or once around?

any style points available for creative solutions here?

show me please -

thanks

td

Posted by: Dave_Darling Mar 12 2013, 09:06 PM

Two schools of thought on this. One says to just wrap the straps around the bar. The other says to put them over the bar and hook them to eye-bolts on the firewall, with BIG washers.

I chose the former, but I think the latter may be the preferred method when practicable. Ah, found the pics.

http://members.rennlist.org/damp_dave/belts.html

--DD

Posted by: plays with cars Mar 12 2013, 10:42 PM

I agree with wrapping around the harness bar. Running them down to eye bolts in the firewall doubles the load on the harness bar and doesn't add any factor of safety.

Dave - you should replace the hairpin clips in your anchor latches w/ cotter pins.

Posted by: carr914 Mar 13 2013, 05:45 AM

The Belts should be secured to the firewall (via Eye Bolts) and ideally be a couple feet below the Harness Bar.

I don't know of any 914 Harness Bar that is strong enough by itself to just wrap the Belts.

The only Harness Bar I would put Straps to is the Brey-Krause Bar for a 911. It's DOT Approved and looks like a Rocket Scientist came up with it

Posted by: toadman Mar 13 2013, 05:50 PM

There is a lot of good info here:
http://www.schrothracing.com/sdocs/2009_Competition_Instructions.pdf

Posted by: Dasnowman Mar 13 2013, 06:26 PM

QUOTE(toadman @ Mar 13 2013, 04:50 PM)

Posted by: tadink Mar 14 2013, 12:14 AM

thanks guys -

I've got the belts running over the harness bar to a thru-bolt on the firewall - big washers. The geometry looks right to me - I'll post some pix when I get back to the car this week. I'd be hesitant to just rely on the bar itself as the anchor point - prefer to loop over the bar and down to the bolt in the firewall....

thanks

td