No, your right mate, it's the Panspeed front bumper. If you look at the center section that meets up to the hood, it's adjustable. That's their front end. Their kit actually. Panspeed doesn't have a site though, it's a walk-in business only


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only if you like a compressed spine. The belts aren't supposed to down to the frame. They actually aren't supposed to go down once on th eother side of the seat. The go straight back and are supposed ot be attatched to the lower bar of roll cage. These belts keep you from going forward in a crash if you crashed like this the unibody frame plus the way your body would move would crush your spine. it's been proven before in many tests and there is an article in PAS magazine about it maybe 1 year back. The harness should not:

A) go around the seat but rather through it
B) should not be bolted to the frame and any belt angle past 110 degrees is unsafe (as in the belt passes through the seat then angles around the shoulders into the lap of the person)
C) have the bracket bolted more than 30 degrees of angle from the location of the belt going off the bracket.

These setups fail to meet B and possibly C but I cannot see the brackets.

 

That white drift FD would be sick if the headlights were'nt screwed up and if all those stickers were removed..

 

Hard to explain in english, but the seatbelts are OK. You wont have any more load on the shoulders depending on the angle of the seatbelts. The seatbelt should ALWAYS hit the seat BEFORE touching your shoulders. If not, the seat is to short for you, and will cause injury on your spin.

 

Seat belt mounting, I believe there should be a cross bar in the roll cage directly behind the drivers seat at the hight of the holes in the seat for the seat belt and the shoulder straps for the seat belts to be attached to that bar. A few years ago a race car I was pit crewing on had a large impact into the side of a bridge and the impact was enough to tear the seat mounts out of the floor and because the seat belts were mounted a distance away from the seat the seat was flicked lick a whip and the driver suffered massive head injuries when his helmet was smashed against the pasenger side of the cars main roll hoop.

The shorter and the straighter the belts the less stretch and whip can be generated.

I also believe the top of the seat should be rubber mounted to the cross over hoop so that in a rear end inpact there is at least something to take the forces on the top of the seat to prevent it getting torn out of the floor and whipping backwards. This did happen to another driver I worked with and he died from his injuries in that crash.

 

Go ahead, I bet you'll fall in love with it. I wonder if it would even be loud with a midpipe, if I close it all the way. Only one way to find out!

 

that is the proper way of monuting, could you immagine the seat lifting up with the belts on the floor? If they were directly behind him, the seat would've gone backwards and no one gets hurt. These should be illegal harness monuts but I know that's an official D1 car so I guess they let it slide (no pun intended) or maybe the Japanese are less concerned about the drivers dying.

 

this is the best photo I have on hand to show the belt mounting

 

Floor mounting is ok. Mounting the belt on the strutbar is ok as long as the angle is 10 or more degrees. OEM FD strutbar wont do.

But i can agree that those angles look a little extreme. I wouldent mount it that way. FIA recommed no more that 45 degree, but at least 10.

 

Bump....so i can find this when my internet at home works. Glad somebody started this thread!!

 

a few more photos

 

Neat. I like the duct in the front nose. Any engine bay shots?

 

This thread is awesome . Keep them coming please.

 

Floor mounting directly behind the seat is at nearly 90 degrees! Those two that were pointed out are not safe at all.

 

Those seat belts are definitely not okay. I know you know the issue already, but even relying on the seat to negate the opposite force that occurs during a collision is relying on the seat to support that. Bad idea - rely on the frame of the chassis.

 

lets make this a clean track rx7's thread, not a seatbelt arguement

 

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Details on the first gen please!

 

 

 

BUMP...anybody got more?

Looking for INGS kitted FD's as well, thought i'd try here cause my other thread nobody has posted in.

 

um... are those two FDs even circuit cars?

 

Were Lupe's drag car's that he posted circuit cars? How about the autocross pictures?

 

what kit is that? it looks awsome. and this what kit is that on the yellow panspeed car?

 

Wondering what type of hood is on this car? I think it looks awesome and I believe it's the first time I've ever seen it. Does anyone know if this is a production hood or simply a one-off custom piece? Also wondering if this hood is vented? I can't tell from the pics if the groves in the hood actually are cut-out.