harness bar?

[EWAustin]

I am planning on autocrossing my 325is, and I would like to correctly mount my harness. Does anyone make a harness bar for the E30? Or would this be a custom fabrication job?

[etxxz]

ebay has a sparco and a something else harness bar. but both very expensive. i looked on google and found one for $230. that's why i did my own thing. idk if its event or street legal though.

i take it you have an aftermarket seat. anyhows, i bought e30 seat sliders at a junkyard to weld a bracket on to mount my current racing seat (some shitty ractive seat i paid $31 for > my broken e30 seat). I also got the seat's harness and simply welded an extra four little brackets onto the slider and i hooked the 4pt harness to that. Two by where the reclining gear part of the seat is, and two that wrap around the curved metal bar in the rear of the e30's slider. it works beautifly....

i do have to redo the brackets 'cause i welded the seat two-three fingers too high for my taste

[EWAustin]

Still the stock sport seat for now. I may wind up going to an aftermarket later though.

$430 is a wee bit more than I was hoping to spend. Looks like I'll have to get out my welder.

[tonytony]

www.stableenergies.com makes one, i have one mayself

[EWAustin]

I think that's what I want. I'd still have to mount the belts themselves to the rear lap belt mounts though, and then just run them over the bar to give it the correct angle of attack, right?

[tonytony]

yup no spinal compression if you crash

[1985bmw325e]

i am still skeptical about these bars because the safety aspect of it all doesn't seem to be positive.

[rs4pro3]

yup no spinal compression if you crash

nope, just decapitation or a big headache.

[tonytony]

well i'm probably going to be messed up either way if i get rear ended hard enough for my seats to break, it's the same thing as a roll bar just not everything else

[1985bmw325e]

i dont think a roll bar will do as much dmg to you in a collision (side, rear, frontal, whatever) as that harness bar will do to your head.

[ZinRot325i]

well i'm probably going to be messed up either way if i get rear ended hard enough for my seats to break, it's the same thing as a roll bar just not everything else

I think you'd be suprised at how little force it takes to break the seats....

[Bokes]

harnesses without a rollbar.... genius.

[tonytony]

i dont drive with it on the streets if thats the point your'e trying to make, and i dont race it cause it's not a race car. It's there so i can autoX with it, and it works, i dont think i'll be flipping the car during an autox with my street tires

[Bokes]

i dont drive with it on the streets if thats the point your'e trying to make, and i dont race it cause it's not a race car. It's there so i can autoX with it, and it works, i dont think i'll be flipping the car during an autox with my street tires

ah okay. why not just get quickfit harnesses then instead of a harness bar? j/w

[jht3]

for auto-x, a harness bar or even harnesses bolted to the floor will be fine

hitting a cone at 30 mph is not going to cause that bar to fail or your spine to compress. going off track at 115 mph would be another story