[Spridgets] Fitting harnesses (of the seatbelt variety)

Wed May 19 14:50:52 MDT 2010

Well. I've been upside down in cars with a full harness and without though  
both cars were NOT convertibles (they had a steel roof).  I also have the  
experience of many miles of driving a Sprite with a full race harness, 4  
point and 6 point.

Ok, so without time for ducking and diving it's a fact that with a 3 point  
retractable belt the sideward motion of the rollover will move you to the 
side  and as your head contacts the ground the force will move you to the 
side if the  rolling motion hasn't already done so.  It's still possible your 
head will  impact the ground if the accident speed is high/violent enough 
though while a  100mph crash in a Lancia Beta would do this an 80mph crash in a 
Spridget might  not?

With a 4/5/6 point full harness you are absolutely not going to move very  
much sideways at all.

I guess Chris can consider the advice he has been given and make up his own 
 mind.  I would however, ask that he very clearly understands the  issues.  
Better still maybe the list can get a car set up on one of those  body 
repair rotisseries and do a back to back comparasion with each type of belt  set?

Regards

Weslake-Monza 1330

In a message dated 19/05/2010 21:20:23 GMT Daylight Time,  
cbking at alum.rpi.edu writes:

In my  experience, there's not a whole lot of time for ducking, diving,
whatever,  during a rollover. BTDT, and survived. The 3 point retractable
belts I  installed worked fine during the rollover, and probably helped
promote  survival. IMO, a properly secured harness would only  improve
this.

BTW, I did install a roll over bar after this, but I  still have my 3
point belts.

-=Chris

Chris  King
http://home.comcast.net/~kvcbk/

<-----Original  Message-----> 
>From: WeslakeMonza1330 at aol.com  [WeslakeMonza1330 at aol.com]
>Sent: 5/19/2010 1:52:47 PM
>To:  Chris.Rae at microsoft.com;spridgets at autox.team.net
>Subject: Re:  [Spridgets] Fitting harnesses (of the seatbelt variety)
>
>Well  there are books with this stuff in......... 
> 
>I personally  don't recommend racing harnesses in a Spridget unless you
have 
> a  roll over bar (rollbar) because if you flip the car without a
rollover  
>bar you can't duck, dive, lean or whatever.
>  
>Weslake-Monza 1330
> 
>In a message dated 19/05/2010  02:53:18 GMT Daylight Time, 
>Chris.Rae at microsoft.com  writes:
>
>does anyone have any experience
>with fitting a  race harness to a Spridget? 
>
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