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wstar · 01-31-2012, 01:59 PM

Arguably, a harness bar is always a bad safety idea.

In stock configuration, the safety design with regular seatbelts is that in the event of a rollover, your body can fall to the side a bit as the roof crushes in on you. Once you strap into a 4+ point harness, you're immobilized from falling to the side, and in a rollover without a rollbar your head will take the weight of the car and your spine/neck gets compressed/crushed.

Combining that with what I said above, it seems like the only combined options that don't seriously compromise safety in some situation are:

1) Stock everything
2) 4-pt rollbar + harnesses: still streetable w/o a helmet, can choose harness-vs-seatbelt usage regardless of helmet status (or completely remove seatbelts and go full-time harness).
3) >4-pt cage: not streetable, always requires a helmet + harness.

01-31-2012, 01:59 PM	#413 (permalink)
wstar A True Z Fanatic Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 4,024 Drives: too slow Rep Power: 3594	Arguably, a harness bar is always a bad safety idea. In stock configuration, the safety design with regular seatbelts is that in the event of a rollover, your body can fall to the side a bit as the roof crushes in on you. Once you strap into a 4+ point harness, you're immobilized from falling to the side, and in a rollover without a rollbar your head will take the weight of the car and your spine/neck gets compressed/crushed. Combining that with what I said above, it seems like the only combined options that don't seriously compromise safety in some situation are: 1) Stock everything 2) 4-pt rollbar + harnesses: still streetable w/o a helmet, can choose harness-vs-seatbelt usage regardless of helmet status (or completely remove seatbelts and go full-time harness). 3) >4-pt cage: not streetable, always requires a helmet + harness. __________________ 7AT Track Car! Journal thread / Car setup details Last edited by wstar; 01-31-2012 at 02:02 PM.