meyers0150 wrote:We use this Corbeau. Passes inspection and the least expensive I could find. Also I've had no comfort complaints from drivers. FYI- while the seats do not expire the harness does, I believe 5 years for Lemons but 2 years in NJ.
http://www.racing-seats-usa.com/29101.html
I have two Corbeau Forzas (one for the driver and one for the passenger for track days). I bought them both for $100-120 locally via Craigslist and one came with a car specific bracket that I later sold off on the enthusiast site to further lower my acquisition costs. It doesn't matter from a Lemons budget standpoint but every bit does help from a total annual racing budget standpoint.
Comments:
* Even after selling of $1500 from my tbird, I still spent $4-5K prepping the tbird for our first race. You have to pay to play but it helped to bring a larger team (6ppl) for my first race to reduce costs.
* You do sit a little low - one of the Corbeaus came with a pad that raises the seat position a bit. Since both seats are the same dimensions (one was just slightly newer), we just use that pad with the driver's seat. Before we had the pad, we just had a pillow for our shorter drivers to sit on.
* You will probably need a back brace since a) this is a tube frame and not a fiberglass shell seat and b) if any person will be seated beyond a certain distance from the cage bracing (I think it's 6"). For safety's sake, I'd have one anyway. EGR built one for us as part of the cage price but you can buy one from IO PORT
http://www.ioportracing.com/Merchant2/m … Code=SBB15
* Our driver's side belts were getting old and we wanted a proper harness for the passenger so I went ahead and bought a camlock GFORCE setup ($150) instead of the cheapest latch&link setup ($70). CAMLOCK is SO much nicer and IMO are well worth the premium.
- It's a LOT easier to get in/out with camlock belts. If you have drivers of different widths, you will spend a lot less time messing around getting friendly with their junk while you are adjusting/buckling them in. Even if fiddling with their junk is your thing, you can always do that later when the track is cold and you won't be wasting on-track time that you (and your fellow drivers) have already paid for.
- Since GFORCE charges $60-75 to reweb & recertify belts, this procedure is only cost effective to re-web camlock belts (and not L&L sets).
- PULL UP lap belts are a LOT easier for the driver to get himself tighter than PULL DOWN belts.
* I have one vote AGAINST the double locking slider. Somehow, one side of the slider worked itself out of the track and we ended up forcing our long driver to drive in the "up close" position for his stint. I later had to remove the entire seat and remove the rails from the brace before I could get the slider in the right position so lifting up would release BOTH tracks. That was highly annoying. The single locking corbeau slider never gave me this problem. If you have OEM manual seat tracks on your stock seats, I'd see if you could mod them to fit the Corbeau seat first before giving them money for a slider that doesn't fit very well. That would be my first choice.
I'm probably going to buy a HANS setup for my team. Even if the Necksgen Rev does look lighter and more convenient,
a) these amount of forward movement allowed by the Rev scares me a bit
b) I actually emailed them TWICE for a response (even -- oh the test settings were different probably would have sufficed). They never replied with SQUAT to me so I'm voting with my dollars.
Necks Gen Rev - note: uploaded by Necksgen's president so I doubt this is a guerrilla marketing hatchet job.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFlmJHP2o90
Hans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFOprqPmgqQ
Either option would be better than being this guy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSaiZuzNMSY
or real world
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g40YatgE_CE
Myopic Motorsport's #888 Ceci n'est pas une Citron Thunderbird ("This is not a lemon" but a 1995 tbird w/ 93 V8 swap + shopping cart rear wing + engine mounted frito maker)
2017 Sears Pointless Organizer’s Choice
Frito Making Tbird from 2018 Sears Pointless Engine Heat BBQ -
http://goo.gl/csaet4