CowDriver wrote:I have been wondering the same thing since I am working on my first Lemons car. What brands and models are good for our kind of racing?
In addition, do race seats come with rails to permit fore & aft adjustment? Or are we expected to use the original car's mounting rails?
My car (the Super Snipe) is from the days when people sat high and vertical. If the racing seats I have seen were mounted near the floor, I doubt I could see over the dash. Is there an accepted alternative to welding up my own seat mounting frame?
When you build your cage, put in sill bars (running from near foot of hoop to near foot of the front downbars) then run a tube or two across the width of the car and mount your seat on that/those. Mount your belts to it as well.
I don't know about you, but I don't like the idea that the cage can travel one way and the seat the other way, trusting crappy car floor metal. With the seat attached to the cage, it travels with the cage and the seat belt mountings travel in the same relationship, too. I don't want the seat and mounts deforming one way, cage another way, and the belts still another way turning someone's body into a playdoh fun factory.
Pretty extreme, but when you run a 1500lb mini in a race with 3500lb cars that are capable of doubling our max speed, I'd rather have that safety buffer.