14-05-2015, 04:37 PM
I do see Mei's point and it makes perfect sense. I also don't see how you're so unconfident in standard seat belts Piggy? I have never seen an inertia reel fail. They are silly simple things so theres not really anything to fail.
A bit of movement in a seat can be a good thing but its all dependant on the use. If you have a cage, you can be strapped in solid because you know that no matter what happens to that car, you're still in your scaffold safe box. In a standard car, we've all seen what happens. Even brand new cars just don't have the strengthening that if you roll them at any great deal of speed, will stop the roof caving in. In this situation, id rather be in a standard seat belt. You're not going to come out from behind it, you're not going to end up in the passenger foot well but you do have the room to be moved if it really came to it in the accident unlike in a harnessed bucket where you effectively become part of the structure of the car. And I'm sure i don't have to paint that picture!
A bit of movement in a seat can be a good thing but its all dependant on the use. If you have a cage, you can be strapped in solid because you know that no matter what happens to that car, you're still in your scaffold safe box. In a standard car, we've all seen what happens. Even brand new cars just don't have the strengthening that if you roll them at any great deal of speed, will stop the roof caving in. In this situation, id rather be in a standard seat belt. You're not going to come out from behind it, you're not going to end up in the passenger foot well but you do have the room to be moved if it really came to it in the accident unlike in a harnessed bucket where you effectively become part of the structure of the car. And I'm sure i don't have to paint that picture!
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1999 China Blue 306 GTi6 - Eaton Supercharged - 214.5bhp 181lbft
1999 China Blue 306 GTi6 - Eaton Supercharged - 214.5bhp 181lbft