BUddy club seat rail issue. Side bracket
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Those little L brackets provided by Buddy Club, F1 Spec, etc. are a joke. They flex a lot on track, and just aren't safe. Heck, I can see them flexing when I apply lateral force on my seat using my hands. Any race bucket seat should be secured with 1 solid mount on each side, for both driver feel and safety. I was going to retrofit some off the shelf sidemounts to fit the BC rails, but the amount of hacking turned me away. So I designed my own using the BC rails and L brackets as a template. The design is essentially the two "L" brackets supplied by BC in their kit joined together. I did the design using CAD, then laser cut and bent them from 1/8" ASTM certified steel plate.
Raw mounts, prepped and ready for paint:
Gloss Black Epoxy Paint drying
Finished mounts, in gloss black
Wrinkle black epoxied mounts, before curing. Top slot of rear section of sidemount cut on these ones, to allow Recaro PP to be mounted lower
Wrinkle Black epoxied mounts, after oven curing
Gloss Black vs. Wrinkle Black
Raw mounts, prepped and ready for paint:
Gloss Black Epoxy Paint drying
Finished mounts, in gloss black
Wrinkle black epoxied mounts, before curing. Top slot of rear section of sidemount cut on these ones, to allow Recaro PP to be mounted lower
Wrinkle Black epoxied mounts, after oven curing
Gloss Black vs. Wrinkle Black
guess that's why the facebook groups are a lot more active these days
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