Safety thread on harnesses, rollbars, and seats

[masraum]

This is a really good thread on safety on the miata board. Some of the info is miata specific, but most of it is just info about harnesses, seats, roll bars, etc...

http://forum.miata.net/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=25&t=001596#000019

[ted]

One guy mentioned this... is this common or safe?

A lot of guys mentioned that in some stretch the shoulder belts are falling off the shoulders, a VERY dangerous thing obviously (someone just got killed here in WSIR last year when the shoulder belts slipped off his shoulders in an impact ).
All you guys NEED TO GO AHEAD, release one of the shoulder belts off the harness bar and mount it again when it is X'd behind the seat.
The shoulder belts will not slip off your shoulders that way.
This is the correct way to run harnesses when you don't have a racing seat, with a racing seat, you run them straight.