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Old 07-07-2019, 10:18 AM
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Seats move a lot more than you think. This is a newer car prep’d by a top shop...watch the top of the esses: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zLtChQBj4vg
I have an OMP halo seat and it doesn't move but mine is bolted to the floor without a slider. Maybe the sliders are the cause?

Either way, a seat which moves that much is a little scary to me.
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Originally Posted by okie981
Regarding comments on tech inspection at Chin events, for the last 2 Chin events I attended, April and June at COTA this year, tech consisted of turning in your signed tech sheet, and there was no requirement for a shop to do the inspection, it was acceptable to self inspect. With Chin at Barber last year in July, tech inspection consisted of a less than 1 minute look-over of my car and taking my signed inspection sheet.
I had the same experience at Chin. I don't want to make this all about chin ( Its team Motu 100%) but during my other PCA event inspections, I've discovered a number of things that needed to be addressed - that I might otherwise not have seen. Always good to have another set of eyes on the car. You cant argue that.
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Old 07-07-2019, 02:14 PM
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Originally Posted by 38D
Seats move a lot more than you think.
Wow. That seat moves a lot. My Cobra Sebring seat does not flex anything like that and I weigh over 220 lbs. Of course my seat is bolted on one side to a steel plate welded to the tunnel and the other side is an aluminum bracket bolted to the floor.
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After some big accidents, my old shop built the seat frame into the cage, not through the unibody floor panels. Also, NO sliders. Way too much slop.
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I have a Sabelt halo seat with Sabelt sliders after watching Video I can see my seat moves a bit, but nowhere near the movement in mustang boys video....
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Originally Posted by ProCoach
After some big accidents, my old shop built the seat frame into the cage, not through the unibody floor panels. Also, NO sliders. Way too much slop.
Agree. This is how my race car was built.
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Old 07-07-2019, 05:21 PM
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After some big accidents, my old shop built the seat frame into the cage, not through the unibody floor panels. Also, NO sliders. Way too much slop.
decade + ago we had lively discussions here on proper seat mounting and cage building. Remember John H aka "Redlineman"? He was quite the professional fabricator very willing to share ideas to keep us safe.
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My wife and I share our MX-5 Cup, so I had the seat on sliders. I found that in about 6-9 months the sliders developed enough slop that the seat moved too much. Went through two sets of sliders, and finally fix-mounted the seat and made a bead seat for my wife.
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I want to know what happened after the crash between the GT350 and GT3 owner.
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Someone needs to get this video to the GT3 driver if he doesn’t already have it.
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He lived it...

Car’s getting fixed now...
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Car’s getting fixed now...


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Originally Posted by ProCoach
After some big accidents, my old shop built the seat frame into the cage, not through the unibody floor panels. Also, NO sliders. Way too much slop.
That is the correct way to do it. What tube frame cars have done forever and what the better built cars are still doing in Porsches and the like. Porsche (and others) went to the movable pedal boxes to remove sliders from the equation.
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Originally Posted by Matt Romanowski
That is the correct way to do it. What tube frame cars have done forever and what the better built cars are still doing in Porsches and the like. Porsche (and others) went to the movable pedal boxes to remove sliders from the equation.
I just looked at a 2019 Porsche GT3 Cup Car and I think it had sliders for the seat. The 2019 Cup Car specs say the seat has fore/aft adjustment. Or is that not a real race car?
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Originally Posted by winders
I just looked at a 2019 Porsche GT3 Cup Car and I think it had sliders for the seat. The 2019 Cup Car specs say the seat has fore/aft adjustment. Or is that not a real race car?
Not really a real race car.

I thought they did that the same as the RSR? https://www.porsche.com/internationa...turesandspecs/

FIA spec if you are curious https://www.fia.com/sites/default/fi...acing_seat.pdf
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