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03-10-2010, 10:36 PM
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Can your rubber band theory explain this? The seat harness holes act as an anchor point for the harnesses (not to be confused with the mounting point) if you take that rubberband and mount it to the ground, slide in your book (acting as the seat) and pull your fingers forward, how does your theory hold up then?
03-11-2010, 03:39 AM
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I will say I got into an accident back in my first car... (riced out Escort GT) I had racing seats and sparco harnesses mounted to the floor... I got into a T-bone accident with someone making a left turn and me slamming into them. First thing I noticed... NO GIVE in the belts!!! My knees slammed off the bottom of the dash and my neck was thrown forward like it was gonna come off!! My back was so stiff and felt odd!!!! (I was young it was 2001 with no knowledge of doing it the right way). Thas my 0.2 cents. I would never do it agin, my last car had a harness bar made for it to be mounted the right way. Not to mention those seat belts are NOT DOT cert and who knows if they will hold you in at all!
03-11-2010, 08:15 AM
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my patience for this thread is running thin. op - certainly you can't be stupid enough to not understand the basic theory behind what everyone is saying. you're in denial. get over it.
03-11-2010, 09:33 AM
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The lulz are funny. I like getting a rise out of people too, makes things more interesting. So is there any way to mount them to the factory roll bars? I'm dangerously close to max height for the car and I'll take all the seat room I can get.
03-11-2010, 09:47 AM
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Originally Posted by splatter85,Mar 10 2010, 11:36 PM
Can your rubber band theory explain this? The seat harness holes act as an anchor point for the harnesses (not to be confused with the mounting point) if you take that rubberband and mount it to the ground, slide in your book (acting as the seat) and pull your fingers forward, how does your theory hold up then?
I hope you are starting to see what I'm getting at here. Maybe you're 5'7" or whatever your height needs to be to be BELOW the seat harness holes, but if you're not, then you will suffer spine compression.
Also, realize that there is a lot of force in a car crash. And if your seats harness holes are not up to the task of well, resisting that energy, then your seat will compress, or possibly break, and there is nothing stopping that seat belt from coming down onto you. Hence my rubber band example and your first picture holds true again. I don't know what supports the seat harness holes, but you'd better hope it's strong enough. If you mounted the seat belts properly, then you wouldn't need to worry about it. Also, manufacturers probably don't account for this because they expect the owner to mount the belts correctly so they may not reinforce the seat harness holes to withstand that amount of crash force.
03-11-2010, 09:50 AM
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I don't think you get it yet. Don't mount harnesses to your car off the lot. Either put in a roll bar, or take off your harnesses. Putting them anywhere on a factory car should produce the same result.
But after three pages, I guess you really don't get it. Maybe mount them to your balls, the gene pool will appreciate it
But after three pages, I guess you really don't get it. Maybe mount them to your balls, the gene pool will appreciate it