Drag Talon Buidlup

The next step after the windsield bars were in was to complete the halo and also help tie in where we had pulled out the metal beam across the front of the car. This was another straight forward thing to do, just had to fit up a couple of pipes and call it a day. Things were starting to take shape finally!

     

To help further stiffen the 2G DSM chassis we thought we should tie in the chassis to the roll cage in as many locations as possible. In the front, just below the A-Pillars was the first place that we tackled. They look as follows:

     

In order to continue on with the roll cage we now needed to mount the drivers seat so we could locate the position of the harness and door bars as they rely on the height of the driver. The door bars on a roll cage must pass the driver inbetwen their shoulder and elbow, while the harness bar must be no more than 4" below the shoulder, nor above it. The seat we are using is a Kirkey Pro Drag Aluminum racing seat. While most seats mount on rails for adjustablilty, we will be leaving this one stationary which also helped allow us to have a few different options as far as mounting. We played around with positioning and came to the conclusion that we ended up having enough room under the seat that we could mount it on a piece of tubbing running across the flooring. To bolt the seat down completely we welded a flat piece of steel to the tube large enough to host the required 4 bolts need to mount the seat, while not being too large to add useless weight.



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