Adding new harness bar to roll cage

[billy]

I just dropped off my DasSport Weekender 4pt roll bar/cage with the welders. They are adding a new horizontal bar 3 inches above my existing one and moving the belt hoops on to that. The bar is the same as the existing ones 1.75" x 0.12 inch. This should finally get my shoulder belts at 0 degrees instead of the 20 plus ish that it is now.

I'll post photos tomorrow. Tubing was cheap, only needed 6 ft of it and shop rate was 60 per hour.

[uwaeve]

How are they attaching it? Are they making like a towel bar (3" of vertical tube on the ends with 5' of horizontal in between)?

[billy]

They are tig-welding it like a towel bar between the two verticals of the roll bar.

http://www.dassport.com/weekend_996_bar.asp

This is my 4pt bar. They are adding another harness bar 3 inches above the existing one.

What do you mean towel bar? Same as me?

[billy]

So, the first shop didn't have the right steel, (they had ERM, not DOM) and don't do race stuff anyway. So, I phoned a local PCA guy and asked who does it. I went to them today and they put a 1.5" x .125 bar in and it looks pretty good. They build cages for local PCA cars and cobra replicas. 120 bucks.

[billy]

So, a new harness bar 1.5" x 0.125" DOM added 3 inches higher.

[billy]

Here it is installed with harnesses, a lot better.

[kbrew8991]

looks alot safer now