Greg Fishman

Did you bother to look at any of the sites I posted links to?

Here it is again, look about half way down. They are $29.95.

http://www.safetysupplysouth.com/Mer...tegory_Code=C1

mitch236

My bad, sorry and thanks

macnewma

I don't think there is any question that CarbonX is the only way to go for any fire protective clothing. It is becoming the only choice in racing, fire-fighting, and aerospace.

Here are some facts and figures from CarbonX:

http://www.chapmaninnovations.com/products/testing.html

Here are some testimonials:

http://www.chapmaninnovations.com/pr...timonials.html

Here is an article on the Space race and its CarbonX suit:

http://www.spacenewsfeed.co.uk/2004/...er2004_20.html

Now, I don't know how much good a fire proof flight suit will do you if you are residing just outside of the Earth's atm and your ship ignites, but I am sure they use the best.

If you are in the market for a new suit, get a CarbonX one (Impact, Simpson, Hinchman, Design500). If you already have a Nomex suit, get CarbonX underwear. Oakley's new race shoes are CarbonX as well. Ringers makes CarbonX racing gloves with a gauntlet.

I can't see why anyone would touch Nomex with CarbonX now available.

I would guess that in the next year you will see every pro racer out there in a black suit with a black balaclava. Why? Because CarbonX doesn't work well with pigmentation and is always black. The only way around this that I can see is a pigmented Nomex layer on the outside with the inner layers made from CarbonX. The pros may already do this. It would be weird to see a Ferrari driver wearing black.

Max

Mark in Baltimore

I spoke to Dave Parker at the OG Racing store at Summit. He persuaded me to not get the X-Light suit, saying that it required you to remove it immediately after getting out of the car and that it would not tolerate being tied around the waist while walking around. Knowing that I was not likely to change every time I got out of the car, I opted for the Top 5 suit. This info was also corroborated by the owner of PilotRaceGear.com where I actually bought it.

If I'm not mistaken, I think Dave said the inner liner was the fragile part of the suit, not the exterior.

smithk993

WOW the CARBON X sounds amazing. I was looking at a cool suit for this year and noticed that the normal cool suit T's are $120 and the CarbonX version is $245? The CarbonX non-cool shirt is only $55. I wonder why the $70 difference? Would've thought CarbonX cool shirt to be around $175.

Keith