What seats are you running?
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Vorshlag-Fair
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We've been busy lately selling and installing COBRA seats, Schroth harnesses, Corbeau harness bars, and various 4-point roll bars.
The BMW E36 above left our shop yesterday with two COBRA Imola seats ($729, Kevlar composite, 17 pounds, FIA 8855-1999 approved and HANS compatible), COBRA sliders and aluminum side mounts, plus custom Vorshlag chassis brackets. We made fixtures for both the left and right side brackets so that we can make more, ensuring a good fit with these components. We went the extra mile and made seat belt anchors + submarine harness anchors in our tubular steel brackets. We also made sure that the tall driver (6'3") could easily fit with a helmet on, in this sunroof equipped car - not an easy feat.
The Leguna Seca above already had the Recaro seats, so it got a Corbeau bolt-in harness bar and Schroth Profi II 6PT Flexi Belt System harnesses last week.
I've used a lot of racing harnesses over the years but nothing that works as smoothly, looks as good and feels this secure. Schroth is my new favorite, and I'm switching over all of my cars to this brand of harness. In the next few days we're installing seats (both COBRA Imola and Suzuka), harness bars and harnesses into two more S197s, so we're reverse engineering the chassis-to-seat brackets in my 2011 GT and making some improvements... then making production fixtures for these so we can make production runs of these exact brackets, like we did on the BMW E36 this week. Why? Because there's a lot more to installing a seat than buying the seat + slider + side brackets.
The picture above and left is the Cobra Evolution seat ($1049). This has a "halo" style upper, for side impact head restraint, but this model features an open "window" for better side visibility. I bought this set for my own race car, so if I like these I will put them in the 2015 Mustang when it arrives. Like most COBRA models these are built from composite Kevlar, so they are light and strong. The COBRA side mount brackets come in steel and aluminum, and are part of the FIA rating - if you use some random side brackets, they aren't "FIA" anymore. This is a recent change and some tech inspectors might not know that, and it doesn't matter for HPDE and the like.
The Corbeau seats are pretty good, and they have FIA legal seats starting around $319 (steel framed, like the one above - which is in our lobby now for people to try out, along with some COBRA seats we keep in stock) but we did the Corbeau dealer buy-in recently more to get access to their harnesses bar kits. They bolt-in nicely and give you a solid anchor for the shoulder harnesses to hang from. No, it is not as good as a cage or 4-point rollbar, but it can be installed in minutes without cutting, which a lot of people appreciate.
Cheers,
The BMW E36 above left our shop yesterday with two COBRA Imola seats ($729, Kevlar composite, 17 pounds, FIA 8855-1999 approved and HANS compatible), COBRA sliders and aluminum side mounts, plus custom Vorshlag chassis brackets. We made fixtures for both the left and right side brackets so that we can make more, ensuring a good fit with these components. We went the extra mile and made seat belt anchors + submarine harness anchors in our tubular steel brackets. We also made sure that the tall driver (6'3") could easily fit with a helmet on, in this sunroof equipped car - not an easy feat.
The Leguna Seca above already had the Recaro seats, so it got a Corbeau bolt-in harness bar and Schroth Profi II 6PT Flexi Belt System harnesses last week.
I've used a lot of racing harnesses over the years but nothing that works as smoothly, looks as good and feels this secure. Schroth is my new favorite, and I'm switching over all of my cars to this brand of harness. In the next few days we're installing seats (both COBRA Imola and Suzuka), harness bars and harnesses into two more S197s, so we're reverse engineering the chassis-to-seat brackets in my 2011 GT and making some improvements... then making production fixtures for these so we can make production runs of these exact brackets, like we did on the BMW E36 this week. Why? Because there's a lot more to installing a seat than buying the seat + slider + side brackets.
The picture above and left is the Cobra Evolution seat ($1049). This has a "halo" style upper, for side impact head restraint, but this model features an open "window" for better side visibility. I bought this set for my own race car, so if I like these I will put them in the 2015 Mustang when it arrives. Like most COBRA models these are built from composite Kevlar, so they are light and strong. The COBRA side mount brackets come in steel and aluminum, and are part of the FIA rating - if you use some random side brackets, they aren't "FIA" anymore. This is a recent change and some tech inspectors might not know that, and it doesn't matter for HPDE and the like.
The Corbeau seats are pretty good, and they have FIA legal seats starting around $319 (steel framed, like the one above - which is in our lobby now for people to try out, along with some COBRA seats we keep in stock) but we did the Corbeau dealer buy-in recently more to get access to their harnesses bar kits. They bolt-in nicely and give you a solid anchor for the shoulder harnesses to hang from. No, it is not as good as a cage or 4-point rollbar, but it can be installed in minutes without cutting, which a lot of people appreciate.
Cheers,
2013MustangGT
Budget Boss
Wow, can't wait to get my car there on Wednesday of next week. Those seats look great.
Marc s
NASA AIX
This just arrived today for my car.
jayel579
Member
+1 for the halo seat but damn do those Kirkey seats look horribly uncomfortable.
Marc s
NASA AIX
I was actually surprised how comfortable it is. However, as you know, sitting in it for 30 seconds doesn't tell me how comfortable it will be after 30 minutes of racing.
Mike K
WANNA BE FAST
Are those out of an Evo? How much did they run?
2013MustangGT
Budget Boss
Got a Cobra Suzuka GT put in my car yesterday
Suffice it to say that it was worth the time and money. I discovered today that I've been doing things the hard way until now.
Did the guys at Vorshlag put that in for you?
Yes sir.
They've got your seats sitting in boxes ready to go. Ryan did a nice bracket for it, the mount is extremely solid. I can actually grab the seat and rock the car.
2013MustangGT
Budget Boss
^Sweet. Looking forward to getting them installed a long with some other goodies.
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Got a Cobra Suzuka GT put in my car yesterday
Suffice it to say that it was worth the time and money. I discovered today that I've been doing things the hard way until now.
Can people get in and out of the back seat, or is that a no mans land now? I've got 2 kids that go for rides from time to time, and I want to make sure they can still get in.
You could get back there...but I don't about the harness bar and safety and all that.
Mach2burnout
05 Redfire GT
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2013MustangGT
Budget Boss
I would call Terry and find out. I know they are busy @ Vorshlag, so you will get your quickest response if you call.
Mach2burnout
05 Redfire GT
Factory Porsche 996 GT3 recaro Pole postion halo seats (love where i work and my clients) on both sides. Schroth Hans Harness's on both sides from GT3 cup cars. wont do another event with out a halo seat after watching my clients race this weekend.
Mach2burnout
05 Redfire GT
Ordered a new set of Cobra Imola Pro-Fit GTs today.
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