[Blainefab]

G-Force offers a 6pt camloc harness that is FIA certified, so good for 5yrs of use with NASA, at least. This is the harness (part# 7001) : http://www.gforce.com/products/harnesses/c...ouldersets.html

Is there any interest in a GP on the G-Force FIA 6pt harnesses? Price is real good as is, I don't know how much lower I could get but I could bundle a package with the harnesses, eyebolts and clip-in ends, and proper anchor bolts with sleeves for the antisubs.

Let me know who's interested and I'll make a call to their distributor.

edit: Price is still Harness $135, clip-in ends $7/pr, eyebolts and swivel hardware for the antisub another $8, plus shipping.
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Alan Blaine
Blaine Fabrication
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This post has been edited by Blainefab: May 16 2007, 09:19 PM

[Blainefab]

I understand now why some have a problem with pulldowns, and others don't - I dug around the shop last night and found these harnesses, and measured the length from outside of buckle on one side to the same spot on the other side. There is a large variation between different harness mfrs on that dimension, ie:

Old M&R latch/link: 6.5"
Old Pyrotect: 12.5"
Old Simpson: 12.5" (these are from my car, with 16" Kirkey)
Schroth: 15.5"
RCI: 18" (These are 5pt New In Box, Dec 06 tags, for sale, make offer)
G-Force SFI: 16" (big driver, big seat)

TJ, Glenn - would one of you please measure your G-Force FIA belts? If they are up around 16" it makes sense that they would contact the sides of the seat, while my old Simpsons, at 12.5" would not.

I'll CC G-Force on this.

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This post has been edited by Blainefab: Apr 1 2011, 08:25 AM

[marka]

Howdy,

I understand now why some have a problem with pulldowns, and others don't - I dug around the shop last night and found these harnesses, and measured the length from outside of buckle on one side to the same spot on the other side. There is a large variation between different harness mfrs on that dimension, ie:

Old M&R latch/link: 6.5"
Old Pyrotect: 12.5"
Old Simpson: 12.5" (these are from my car, with 16" Kirkey)
Schroth: 15.5"
RCI: 18" (These are 5pt New In Box, Dec 06 tags, for sale, make offer)
G-Force SFI: 16" (big driver, big seat)

TJ, Glenn - would one of you please measure your G-Force FIA belts? If they are up around 16" it makes sense that they would contact the sides of the seat, while my old Simpsons, at 12.5" would not.

I'll CC G-Force on this.

This is probably the primary reason, outside of cost, that I like latch & link style belts as compared to camlocks. The latch/link belts (usually) have a very short distance between the left & right adjusters and I never have issues with the sides of the seat. I had a set of G-Force camlocks before and have used other camlocks (all pull down) and it seems like I was always running into the side of the seat with the adjuster. Totally annoying. The latch/link style also tends to have a bigger area under the latch, so it presses into my flabby-ass gut in a nicer manner than the camlocks usually do (though Keith's camlock has a big pad, which looks nice).

I've still not found a reason to not use latch/link belts as they're substantially cheaper and also more comfortable to me, but then again I primarily autox. Perhaps there's some safety reason I don't know about.

Mark