Love seeing all the update pics. Keep em comin!:icon18:

Seat + Harness + Bracing back in the car tonight... Should be able to take it for a spin with the new bars tomorrow.

Pics tomorrow, was too dark.

http://www.the370z.com/attachment.ph...1&d=1376482984

http://www.the370z.com/attachment.ph...1&d=1376482984

Nice!

I know your seat is close to the bar but have you considered a seat back brace at all? Those aluminum seats have more flex than you might want without it.

It's actually touching the bar quite firmly...

I actually have a brace, but there's simply not enough room between the seat and the bar to use it.

If, in the future, I move the seat forward an inch or two, I may have room to use it. Until then, I don't see how I can. :-/

I'll continue to investigate it though, since it costs me nothing to use the materials I already have.

Ah ok. Given that you are touching you should be okay. By the time you get strapped in it will pull you into the bar even more firmly. With straps that short you will have very little stretch under braking.

I'd be interested to see what the car weighs when you're all done with it.

Yeah, it's really wedged against it pretty firmly. That's why I have the rubber between the bar and the seat (it's black and zip-tied onto the bar in the photo if you look close).

The strap lengths are super short, so stretch should be almost non-existent, hopefully.

Yeah, me too, haha.

I see you left in the stock horizontal bar back there. I was planning to pull mine after the rear cage was in, figuring its contribution to stiffness has to be a rounding error with real bars in place. Was there some thinking that maybe it really helps?

Just the butt chassis strain gauge.. haha

The cage doesn't actually brace the two sides of the chassis together in that respect. It contributes, for sure, but the stock horizontal weighs next to nothing and seemed to stiffen the chassis noticeably.

I just painted it so it didn't look so blah.

link to the interior handle strap!

everything looks great man!

I made all of those..

I could make you some, if you wanted. ;)

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