[DeTomaso] harness bar.
Mad Dog Antenucci
teampantera at yahoo.com
Tue Sep 14 03:58:15 EDT 2010
Give the job to GW or one of the other fabricators you know to do the job right. I used to have one of those Hall bars. It fit perfectly but no substitute for a roll bar....
Art would probably not be alive today if he had a harness buckled in as he cart wheeled across the Utah desert driving the car with his rear view mirror.
Mad Dawg Antenucci
Team Pantera Racing
The 1st & still the only vintage race team in open road racing
www.teampanteraracing.com
--- On Mon, 9/13/10, JDeRyke at aol.com <JDeRyke at aol.com> wrote:
From: JDeRyke at aol.com <JDeRyke at aol.com>
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] harness bar.
To: dt at ieee.org
Cc: detomaso at realbig.com
Date: Monday, September 13, 2010, 11:45 PM
In a message dated 9/13/10 10:21:31 PM, dt at ieee.org writes:
> 5/8" Thick ? (0.625")
>
> Really ?
>
Yup. And it weighs at least 10 lbs. Since its only supported on the extreme
ends and the shoulder harnesses slide on and pull from 12-18" toward the
unsupported center, it has to be massive to keep from bending too much when
you smack something hard and use the harnesses. But adding a third bolt in the
center to better support the bar would require pulling the rear glass,
drilling & reinforcing the window frame area after finding a good welder to
assemble all the extras. A better plan might be adding a bracket to the floor
and using extended harness straps like are used in sedans. But to my knowlege,
no one's ever been killed or injured using a Hall bar, so.... FWIW- J
DeRyke
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