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I’m shopping for a new harness (6 point seat belt) for our Lemons car. I’m looking for…
- FIA certified (expires 5 years later)
- pull-up lap belt, i.e. the driver can loosen the lap belt themselves from within the seat
After some comparison shopping, this one (current price: $375) looks good to me:
https://www.ogracing.com/products/sparc … ng-harness
Does anyone have this harness? Or, any recommendations / advice?
EDIT: I meant “pull-down” lap belt
Pull-ups generally don't work out as well as you think in anything but a formula car.
I prefer a pull-down belt with the adjusters integrated with the camlock tabs, which keeps the adjusters from interfering with the seat holes even in a narrow seat.
Like one of these:
https://www.schrothracing.com/item/endu … ia-6-point
https://safecraftracing.com/menu/safety-harness-5010/
We used to run SafeCraft 7-point harnesses, and they were great. They also used to do the first re-web free and subsequent ones for like $75. That was a while ago, though, so your mileage may vary.
Mabe I'm missing what you mean by pull up harness.
The harness listed by the op adjusts just like every other harness I've used, the buckle that "pulls up" is not the main adjuster but gets rethreaded back and cannot be easily adjusted on the fly, there is an adjustment point at the main buckle for tightening the driver in. The other buckle is really just to give you more adjustability to make it work with your car.
The harnesses linked by 2nd poster have only 1 adjustments on lap belt. 2nd poster said this stops buckle getting jammed up in seat holes.
Imo if you set the d ring on OPs harness correctly it won't get in the way.
I haven't used enough harnesses to know whats best.
We have a cam lock sparco 6pt, it works great, 5yr fia is nice to avoid replacing often. Cam lock is a must imo
I’m shopping for a new harness (6 point seat belt) for our Lemons car. I’m looking for…
- FIA certified (expires 5 years later)
- pull-up lap belt, i.e. the driver can loosen the lap belt themselves from within the seatAfter some comparison shopping, this one (current price: $375) looks good to me:
https://www.ogracing.com/products/sparc … ng-harness
Does anyone have this harness? Or, any recommendations / advice?
EDIT: I meant “pull-down” lap belt
Indeed, that is a pull-down harness. I've used both styles and the pull-down
is the preferred harness by our team. The Pull-up was difficult to tighten
with our seat.
We use this
https://www.gforce.com/collections/harnesses/products/76237-harness its very nice, and innexpensive. they are expiring in 2027.
This is good alternative we used also
https://www.jegs.com/i/RaceQuip/224/855015/10002/-1?trk_msg=SQ5AS03GVL9K148P6L2HN7U9MO&trk_contact=PJ265P0EC754OPRS2F8NDNQ2NS&trk_module=tra&trk_sid=SNTB2KFS7QPKIH8JMCFR1L3O4O&trk_link=UC5K5SIV10TK53HRIJM0NPIENO&utm_source=listrak&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Product&utm_campaign=Transactional&utm_content=Shipping+ConfirmationThanks to everyone for the replies, and for your patience with me and my very rudimentary understanding of racing harnesses.
the buckle that "pulls up" is not the main adjuster but gets rethreaded back and cannot be easily adjusted on the fly
One thing I just now realized is that some harnesses have a simple "thread it through twice" adjustment like the following image. This is a little bit slow and cumbersome to adjust, especially with gloves on.
And other harnesses have a spring-loaded adjustment that is easier to use. See the following picture.
For faster driver changers, I think getting a spring-loaded one would be nice!
Ehh... those are basically the same thing. The black one is more convenient because the adjuster is part of the buckle and it has a tag handle to help loosen it. With some seats, the blue one can get hung up on the seat belt holes in the seat. super annoying.
I think you are trying to say you want a harness with release tabs?
We run a sparco that I think isn't he exact one you linked. It works fine. No complaints
We never adjust it mid race only when changing drivers. Loosen it almost all the way, new driver buckles in, then just yard on all the straps and away you go.
It takes longer to get tight solo, so we always help tighten new driver in and make sure it's routed over hans etc. Usually we have 2 helpers to get new driver in but worst case the exiting driver helps the new driver. You always have 2.
All right, next Lemons race, I am going to be looking at everyone's seat belt to see which one is the most intuitive for our team to use. 
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