Re: Improved Seat Belt/Racing Harness

[Jim Griffin <JGriff@pobox.com>]

At 05:35 PM 9/15/98 -0400, John C. wrote:
>As previously posted, I am going to my first Quattro event later this
month at Elkhart Lake.

Have a great time. I know you'll enjoy it. I thoroughly enjoyed my
first.... and was *bitten* (no, not by a T*rsen Spider, but by the thrill
of being on the track etc...). I had such a great time that I just HAD to
go the next year!! And that's why I'm also going to the QCUSA event in
Germany at the Nurburgring next month!! :-)

>Is there a harness I can get which will use my standard mounting points and
>which is an improvement over the standard belts, or am I wasting time and
>money?  I saw some reference on the Jetta GLX list to a Scroth 4 which
>apparently uses the standard mounting points.

Schroth makes several variations... many of which mount with the standard
mounting points/bolts. I installed a set of the Rallye 3s... which mount in
three stock bolt positions. The Rallye 4s use four. There is also a
retractable Rallye 3.... which is nice... but much more expensive.

Installation is not too bad. It is certainly a DIY job (well.. at least it
was on the QSW of mine). There are several listmembers that have installed
harnesses, so you'll probably get additional feedback/BTDT info from them.

Good luck. Have fun.

FWIW, I have a picture on a web site of the harnesses in my QSW. If you're
curious, click to my main page (below), and link over to the site/page
concerning my QSW (sorry.. I don't have the URL for the QSW page handy... I
believe it is /myQSW.html... but I'm not sure...).


http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/4475

       
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      Jim Griffin
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