Another year....Another Seatbelt..........

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Getting ready for race season by paying my obligatory "seat belt tax" to the SFI group.........I could probably carpet a room with all of these leftover seat belts.....such a freaking racket they have going.

Anyone have any creative things to do with old racing harnesses?
 
flyfish said:
Getting ready for race season by paying my obligatory "seat belt tax" to the SFI group.........I could probably carpet a room with all of these leftover seat belts.....such a freaking racket they have going.

Anyone have any creative things to do with old racing harnesses?
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I hear you. I have a stringer. By specific SFI rule? My trans blanket needs replacing. But so far Tech has been too lazy to look at dates. That thing is not as easy to swap than a seat belt.
 
Years ago I used to send them in for recertification....but now I just buy new ones every 2 freaking years....Oh well, Racing is < 1 month away (YAY!!)
 
It sure seems like a racket to me. I can see such things as off roading, where they might be left lying in seats, deteriorated by sun, soaked in dirty mud/ water and rot, etc.
 
My neighbor gives me his. I install them in the street cars I build.
Post them up, someone that has a street car may want them.
I like how you can run a 12 or even a 10 second street car with 50 year old factory belts but need Sfi belts every 2 years on a dedicated race car that is running the same times.
 
I have seen people make belts out of seat belts. Maybe a belt and suspenders?

Too funny if someone had them on and hoked the lever on something and dropped their pants!
 
Darter6 said:
My neighbor gives me his. I install them in the street cars I build.
Post them up, someone that has a street car may want them.
I like how you can run a 12 or even a 10 second street car with 50 year old factory belts but need Sfi belts every 2 years on a dedicated race car that is running the same times.
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I DONT like that, lol.

But i do use my old belts with my cherry picker to move engines around, and yank one, a time or two.
 
I have always bought the cheapest latch belts i could find, knowing they were only good for two years (except for a couple times when a manufacturer offered a free re-cert, which i never took advantage of, dumbass). The new car has the camlock style, so i think im gonna have them re-cert. I think the manufacturer is local, (at least, they were) so that makes it easier, no shipping to deal with.
Edit: just checked with Crow. No longer local, and wont re-cert any belt older than 2016. Looks like I'm screwed again.
 
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My belts are out, my flexplate is out and so is my helment.
 
flyfish said:
Getting ready for race season by paying my obligatory "seat belt tax" to the SFI group.........I could probably carpet a room with all of these leftover seat belts.....such a freaking racket they have going.

Anyone have any creative things to do with old racing harnesses?
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I would sell mine to the Jeep- rock crawler guys.
 
Just ordered a new set for the 71 Dart......need to check the other car to see ....my 75 Duster is good to end of 21....dont remember about he 71 Duster...will look tomorrow..

I know the 71 Demon are expired....
 
flyfish said:
Years ago I used to send them in for recertification....but now I just buy new ones every 2 freaking years....Oh well, Racing is < 1 month away (YAY!!)
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Ridiculous rule. Get your SFI belts every 2 yrs at 11.49, and at 11.50 I can run a 50 year old factory belt. I'm not suggesting no need for a rule about SFI safety belts, but I think needing a 2 year update is ridiculous.
 
My “tax” isn’t due till June. My JEGS belts gave me 6 extra months. I like cam locks so that’s what I get. Paying my chassis cert tax next weekend.
 
So let me get this straight. You have to buy new seatbelts every 2 years even if they look like new and have barely been used??? That is TOTAL BS!
 
harrisonm said:
So let me get this straight. You have to buy new seatbelts every 2 years even if they look like new and have barely been used??? That is TOTAL BS!
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Yep. Exactly right..... and it sure is! I have a couple sets that , for one reason or another, were never installed, never even taken out of the box. Now long out of date. Virtually worthless.
 
NHRA hasn't budged. We have been complaining about this for YEARS. I once asked if there has ever been a documented case of a SFI seat belt failure due to age? (5 years or less.) So far? None that I've seen or read.
 
the FIA certified belts are not much more, but are good for 5 years....that´s what i´ll buy next.

Michael
 
I once had a set where the date hole punch didnt quite go all the way thru, leaving a "hanging chad". When they were about to expire, i carefully taped the chad back in place from the back, and repunched a hole three years newer. No tech inspector ever questioned it, nor said "hey ,these belts look really old and unsafe, you better get new ones."
There is all kinds of safety equipment that suddenly changes from safe to unsafe on a certain date, but most of it is difficult for a tech inspector to inspect. So they look at a virtually new belt or helmet and Sure Enough, now you get to spend 2,3,400 bucks to replace perfectly good stuff, that was perfectly safe.....yesterday.

Makes you wonder why NHRA is dying, and street racing and no-prep is huge?
 
flyfish said:
Getting ready for race season by paying my obligatory "seat belt tax" to the SFI group.........I could probably carpet a room with all of these leftover seat belts.....such a freaking racket they have going.

Anyone have any creative things to do with old racing harnesses?
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When I take my old ones out I put them on ebay and sell them. I've even sold ones that I had stashed on the shelf for years.
 
That’s funny 33IMP... I had a set one time they didn’t punch the lap belt. For two years I just had the shoulder belt on display. After that expired I punched the lap belt and removed the tag from the shoulder belt :)
 
A body said:
That’s funny 33IMP... I had a set one time they didn’t punch the lap belt. For two years I just had the shoulder belt on display. After that expired I punched the lap belt and removed the tag from the shoulder belt :)
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I like it. Any thing to get more use out of a perfectly good set of belts is okay with me. The only "good" that rule does is make good money for belt manufacturers.
 
Ok cheap azz mopar brethren!! Who has the cheapest cam lock belts out there?? :)
 
crap...forgot to change out the belts today in the Dart
 
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