Hard to answer since I have only sat in them a couple of minutes! I feel a lot more secure in them than the Mach 1 seats I took out. Not a lot of padding if your going to be in them very long.

 

NHRA rules require a brace between the race seat and roll bar. Brian fabricated this for our 1969 Mustang. I will epoxy prime black.

 

Beautiful car!

 

Hi Rusty. PLEASE change that back support!!! If you hit something(god forbid) that will become a spear and drive the post into your back. Make a bracket that wraps and holds to the sides of the seat, or at least spans the full width of the back so it doesn't have all the force in one area.

Racing stock cars I've hit a lot or walls over the years, this isn't the safest way to do that mount. please change it.

 

Looking again, it doesn't look like the horizontal bar on the cage is at the right height to support the belts through the opening in the seat. There should also be a bar to drape the belts over right behind the seat back with the top of the bar a little above the bottom of the seat belt opening. Otherwise, on impact, the tension on the belts will pull down on the seat back and bend it (Or cut the belt, even if the seat opening has that little plastic cover). It will increase chances of a compression fracture of the lower back and the belts might go slack after that and not protect as well on repeat contact.

 

I decided it was time to get it out of storage and start getting it ready for the 50th Anniversary Cobra Jet Reunion.



The wiring was done over 20 years ago and it's time to upgrade. I bought a Ron Francis race car harness and switch panel. I assembled the switch panel tonight after supper on the kitchen table.

 

That's rad!!
(my gramps has a red 68 Shelby he bought new
i always wanted a black one!!)
yours is killer

 

Ron Francis Bare Bonz race car wiring kit.



I mounted the fuse panel on the right kick panel





Switch panel right in front of the shifter on the trans tunnel within easy reach when I have belts tight.

 

I bought this Q code 428 Mach 1 body that was used as a Boss 302 test car from Hubert Platt in 1970 and July 1971 turned it into a SS/GA that set the NHRA National record twice. I quit racing it at the end of the 1974 season. I painted it in my shop in 2005 close to the way it was raced in the 70's. At this time it is being updated to race in B/SA and will be at the 50th Cobra Jet Anniversary Reunion in Norwalk Ohio. This week in my spare time I sandblasted and painted the headers.

 

I have been working on my 1969 Cobra Jet Mustang between customer cars in my spare time getting ready for the 50th Anniversary of the Cobra Jet.





I have had a few questions about my shifter. It is a reverse pattern shifter from Turbo Action for the C4. I don't have the decal on it showing the shift pattern.





I have the wiring finished and everything works





I still have to wire the alternator and my new water pump when the engine is installed.