It was great to see so many HANS devices
being used at the Birkett last weekend.
However, I noticed that many drivers
have not changed the harness anchorage
points, rendering the HANS pretty useless
if the worst were to happen.
Luckily it's not a massive job to do if
you know a welder.
Having just bought a Hans after seeing Vicky's crash at Donington, this post interests me.
We only had to make one small change to my car to comply with the Stand21 fitting instructions. I bought the Club Hans device from Merlin.
Instructions etc are here: http://www.stand21.co.uk/hans.r-49/hans-fitting.f-170.html
I havent been running a HANS this year but with 2 cars out next year and hopefully a fair bit more racing, Also seeing Steve's RGB crash i think i will be purchasing one soon before they become compulsory and the price goes up even more.
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Originally posted by steveiow
Having just bought a Hans after seeing Vicky's crash at Donington, this post interests me.
We only had to make one small change to my car to comply with the Stand21 fitting instructions. I bought the Club Hans device from Merlin.
Instructions etc are here: http://www.stand21.co.uk/hans.r-49/hans-fitting.f-170.html
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Originally posted by eddie99 Also seeing Steve's RGB crash i think i will be purchasing one soon before they become compulsory and the price goes up even more.
A HANS device has no more than £30 worth of carbon in it, about £50 worth of labour(maybe), and the tooling costs are near to £500 for the moulds,
plus the patterns at twice that. The moulds should be good for 100 items, so the cost per item is near £95. Factory sells for £190, retailer £380, so
£350 is 'cheap' as the retailer would have you believe. What the factory has to pay to the patent holder I don't know, but I bet
he's not a poor man today.
Profits in motorsport are one of my soapbox issues. And yes, the safety stuff is the most expensive, because the retailers know you must have it;
captive market. Gears and 'boxes are way over priced(straight cut gears with dogs are the cheapest gear of any to make!), as is everything
else.
Cheers,
Nev.
Hi Nev, at least someone agrees with me I was on about the cheap 'Sport' version of the HANS at £350+, and I think the carbon one i.e.
FIA spec is £700+
Cheers, Nick
P.S. Sorry to get you on your soapbox!!
[Edited on 4/11/11 by Nick DV]
quote:
Originally posted by simes43
It was great to see so many HANS devices
being used at the Birkett last weekend.
However, I noticed that many drivers
have not changed the harness anchorage
points, rendering the HANS pretty useless
if the worst were to happen.
Some of the drivers installs were way out of tolerance and in
a couple of cases close to dangerous.
I spent nearly three weekends fitting a wrap seat and
adding the correct location points for the HANS belts in my
FIA MGB over the winter. It took 5 minutes to get right
on my Locost.
.