FYI - if you do some shopping, you can find good deals without going used NASCAR @ raceimage or paying full retail (~$500/ea).
I bought two suits (both for good prices) for the Mexican 1000.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0041 … 8&th=1
This one I picked up for $50. I thought it was a price mistake but seeing as how Medium is selling for $177, it might just be a surplus inventory thing. It came in full retail packaging with tags.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/G-FORCE-Racing … 1137109698
This is supposed to be a tradeshow sample but considering it came in full retail packaging with tags, I again think its a surplus inventory reduction thing.
I honed in on these two suits because they were NOMEX/Aramid vs treated cotton. FWIW, I like the K1 suit slightly better (mostly because of the interior stitching and cuff design).
On a lark, I did buy some CarbonX shirts/shorts w/o SFI certification sold for firefighters. I think a set cost me $100-120 and were half the cost of what the SFI certified stuff would run (about $85-100 each piece). Honestly, it probably wasn't worth it and I'm not sure i'd do it again. They were super thick. If conditions were cold and I wanted extra safety, I'd probably just wear my nomex long underwear I already own (originally bought to use with my first single layer suit) under my 3.2A/5 suit. Otherwise, I'd just rock a tshirt and boxers. Not the safest choice of course.
In buying some additional socks, I also found out that some companies like RacerDirect get their SFI tags because they are private label brands mfg'd by another SFI certified company. If you search, you'll find RacerDirect is a closeout focused company located in the same building as RJS Racing equipment. I picked up a few pairs of SFI rated socks from them for <$20 via eBay.
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 -
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