Recommended DE Safety Equipment - Sources

[Brian Minkin]

Larry,

The enforced requirments for 2007 are that if you are using 5 or 6 point belts you must use proper seats that offer harness and sub belt openings. So that eliminates factory seats and most sport seats from being acceptable. Equal seating and restraints is required for the drivers and passenger seats.  Harness bars or roll bars are acceptable as an anchor for the belts.  It you opt for a harness bar make sure it will have the ability to anchor the belts on the harness bar (Brey Krause makes one for your car).  If the belts are attached to the rear seat belt anchor points (as a harness guide bar requires) they are subject to too much stretch in an impact.  Roll bars are encouraged but not required for the upper run groups.  Yes you are very upright when held in by 5 or 6 point belts and in a roll over, although the roof of a Porsche coupe may not totally cave in, even a few inches is enough to cause a serious concussion or neck injury.  Head and neck restraints such as the Hans Device are something each individual driver must evaluate.  However when you look at the trauma to the neck when straped in by 5 or 6 point belts during a front impact I think you will see their benefit.