<VV> Seats

[airvair]

Sounds like you just volunteered to engineer up a SAFE bracing system
for the LeBaron seat mounting in a Corvair.

-Mark

John Kepler wrote:
> 
> I have designed and installed safety systems in a fairly wide variety of
> racing machinery that functioned flawlessly and effectively in VERY
> high-impact/high G-Load situations without ANY "full-up" testing.  These
> results weren't the result of a WAG, but of good basic structural and
> materials engineering......good engineering is NOT a "guess" just because
> "full-up" testing wasn't done!   The guy that anchors a seat-belt in a sound
> floor panel with a heavy 3" fender washer as a reinforce has done a pretty
> good piece of "jack-leg" engineering that is no more likely to fail than
> it's heavily tested factory counterpart!  The testing is more about
> regulatory compliance and litigation defense than any engineering
> requirement.....loads and material strength are simple "cookbook"
> engineering, not rocket science!
> 
> John