Thanks to one of Phoenix's sponsors and myself, we have yet another custom, one of a kind piece in my car.

Custom built Harness bar and 4 point Impact! Racing harnesses.

The bar is all 1-1/2" Chrome Moly tubing, bent and tig welded to fit. We made sliders and spacers to bolt in at the factory bolt locations, and I only have Grade 5 bolts in for now, I want to get grade 8. Also, made L-brackets out of 1/4 steel to mount the lap belts under the seat mounting bolts.

The factory seat-belts have been completely eliminated from the car. You have to use either the 2 or 4 points of the harnesses to stay in. Yea, its rough and different, but its my car, and I love it.

I Etch Primered it last night, Painted it, and clearcoated it last night as well, and installed it today.












Took 9 hours start to finish to do everything. I love it.

 

Looks sick! Love it color matched too

 

wiked nice!

 

paint match ftw!!! i love the orange cobalts, where did you get that shifter and shift boot?

 

i like the paint

 

Its a custom made short throw. The Handle is a Hurst T bar I got at NAPA. The boot is an old shift style. Its about to be replaced with one made by the company that redid my interior, Asylum Custom Interiors.

Thanks for all the props guys!

 

I like it very much. But I question if it is track qualified and will pass inspectionwith the stock seats. Still

 

haha it wont pass inspection at a track if he even tracks it and it looks weird without headrests and dont think its too safe without them either btw powell racing makes a harness bar for cobalts now just an fyi and im guessing the harnesess are impact?

 

why wont it pass track or SCCA inspection, it bolts in just like a powell bar.

 

powell bar wont pass inspection EITHER guys, my understanding is the seat AND harness have to meet the SFI specification. So without a seat (which wont pass on the stock adjuster) it's just a cool looking add on.

If it does, it'd be because it's made of chromoly, tigged and bolted into reinforced plates.

 

yup this is true you can run a harness bar and harness on stock seats but you need the headrest to run the harnesses on the inside to keep them from moving around on you i had dot sfi aproved scrothes in my old cavalier with fake recaros lol

 

Yes, its has new impact 44 point latch and link harnesses. Always been on good terms with Impact since my days in NASCAR, always worn there gear, so it was only fitting to use their belts. And Yes, I know Powell makes a bolt in bar. But why buy what everyone else can buy when I have the assistance right here to build a one of a kind piece? Built not bought is where its at in my book.

Yea, every time I post pics I get the headrest thing. It passed inspection without them. I chose to remove them. They didn't do crap in my last accident, and I like my custom sport buckets. Its my car, I like it, that's what matters, haha. I expect most people to hate my car from teh start just because "its not an SS" lol.

And yes. The car, now that Im done redoing the suspension is headed for all the Pittsburgh Area autoX events this year, as well as some track days at Beaverun hopefully.

I like it, its different and unique. I have alot of custom built parts on the car: Front grills, skidplates, harness bar, short throw shifter. its fun making parts rather than buying them.


EDIT: The harnesses cant move left or right. They are in retaining rings on the bar, I just didnt snap any photos of them.

 

oh ok gotcha and hey hey i like your car! just think it looked weird without the headrest and they did a good job on harness bar btw and you have skidplates? lol you gonna start rally racing the cobalt?

 

LOL. Too low for rally >.>

I got tired of hearing my front lip slap the ground going in and out of parking lots. So I made some 0.040 Stainless Steel skidplates for the nose of my car.

 

I am really liking your seats. Do you have any more details on the seats/seat covers?

 

haha oh ok gotcha btw still envious of your sparco gloves lol how much do gloves actually help at the track? i went for my first time in november and boy were my hands sweating lol

 

don't get me wrong the car looks nice as hell, thought I should say that.

 

where can i get that lycanthropy sticker, it's hilarious

 

im diggin the fox racing on the seats nice touch....

 

he said it ties in with his company or some **** lol

 

The seats were rebuilt from the frames up by Asylum Custom Interiors, one of my sponsors. Here is their facebook page: Welcome to Facebook They have done alot of cobalt parts for people.

Yes. So slick hands, and they have pads in the fingers that help with grip. I had those from one of the race teams I used to work with, but they are like $70. I think its worth it. Warm too for driving in the winter >.>

Umgotts Studios: The New Media or Whatever | Just another WordPress.com site They dont have a store up, but email them. I have the decals on my toolboxes as well, haha.

Yea. Everything in my life is orange and black, and I got the nickname Foximus years ago when i was doing NASCAR pit crew work. With my company being called Foximus Motorsports, we thought it fitting to put the Fox logo in the seats.

 

Very nice, I dig the stitching for the quality alone.

 

I can smell cookies, when there near.

 

Why you bored putting a cage...you are not making that much power. Idk, I think its a waste of time.

 

It's not a roll cage.