[DeTomaso] Racy Seats

[michael at michaelshortt.com]

Before you cut up your car, check with the sanctioning body for your
intended race series, Gurney bubbles would never pass SCCA specs today, the
rule is 1" below the top of the roll bar to your helmet as far as I know, it
may have even grown to two inches by now.

Michael in Savannah

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 10:45 AM, michael frazier <red3644 at hotmail.com>wrote:

>
> Hi Scott,
>  I've used stock seats and those older Scheel seats with the tall side
> bolsters.  They were popular a long time ago.
> The stock seats gave me plenty of headroom (6' tall) and worked with all
> the belts, 4 & 5 point harnesses.  You should be
> strapped in so tight you wouldn't move around anyway.  The Scheel seats
> make a submarine belt mount difficult as the
> lower cushion is long.  If you're going to switch seats around anyway, I
> would probably go for one of the Kirkey seats
> as suggested or someting like that.  You may still have to put them right
> on the floor.  With both seats I find myself
> slouching a little more and then ratcheting myself down tight into the seat
> to get that extra bit of headroom.
> Michael...thinking about a Gurney bubble.  Flat black of course.
> Gruppo Rompiculi Corsa Y'all
> BBORR  April 2009
>
>
>
>
>
> Mike, I need a 'racy seat' too for use in open road racing. I'm curious if
> you've locatedsomething that works for you? I'm 6' and my headroom is
> marginal when I'm wearing myhelmet even with removing the seat tracks and
> bolting the seat directly to the floor. I need aseat that accommodates 5
> point harness. I plan to switch back and forth from stock seats torace seats
> along with switching from stock wheels/tires to dedicated open road wheels
> andtires. Thanks Scott
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