Harnesses

[marc69]

Now that the track car is almost ready for a few runs, how tight should harnesses be?

Should they hold you rigid or should there be an inch of freeplay?

I ask because the position the seats are in, I need an inch of freeplay to reach all the controls. If they have to hold you pretty tight then I will have to look into getting the seat moved forward a bit as I am a bit of a shortrse.

[BRoadGhost]

Yeah baboon limbs help; I can only just reach some switches on the dash and that's being 6ft and quite flexible.

You should always be in nice and tight. Maybe you could grow long nails?

[Hobbit]

I can just about reach the heater controls on mine, luckily i'm a short **** so the seat is mounted quite far forward. I have my harness nice and tight, seems pointless having them if they aren't pinning you to the seat.

[phunkynova]

As tight as you can get it the tighter the better as if you do need to use it you'll get less injury's and bruising the tighter they are.
I know I've done extensive test on this one :roll:

[16xe_chris]

Tighter the better IMO

Saved me from 3 time end over end and 3 barrel roll all in the same whoopsie, what I found most difficult was keeping my right arm inside the car whilst being flug around lol

[marc69]

Did some tampering today, with the harness tight I can reach everything so that's good but I have to sit with my bottom right down. Only thing is I can't turn round to reverse as I found out by almost hitting a neighbours parked car I never saw, seriously...half an inch more would have been bad. I'll just have to release the lock everytime I reverse in future.

[BRoadGhost]

Ask yourself how often would you drive forwards blind?

[Iain]

I undo my harnesses for reversing, although I imagine thats a bit of a pain if you have the aircraft buckle ones.