slowdown
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- Howell, NJ
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- Doug
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- 2015 GT PP, 2021 GMC Sierra 1500 Elevation Duramax
I bought the car with the rear seat deleted and a harness bar so I wish I could tell you what delete kit I used but I cannot. Never used the harness bar and removed that.I’m about to do seats, rear seat delete and cage. Why did you go with the seat and cage you chose?
As far as the 6pt bar goes that is an ABF Fabrication 6 point bar with swingouts. This bar can be installed with the rear seats still in the car if you want. The main reason I chose this bar is the way the 4 point bar mounts - no drilling required - specifically none through the hardened steel that runs across the floor pan between the B Pilliars. This thing uses the three 15mm bolts that fasten that bar on the floor pan to the B Pillar and then uses the rear seatbelt shoulder retention assembly holes to mount the rear legs. With the Watson Bar you're drilling for the rear legs and with the CMS Bar you're drilling hardened steel for the front legs. The fabrication on the ABF Bar is top notch. It also has welded on brackets that accept the eyes for the shoulder harnesses instead of wrapping around bar which I like. Fwiw with my rear seats already deleted we pulled the front seats, panels and rug back and had the 4 point bar installed in 2 hours - not sure any other bar on the market comes close and it is solid as a rock and mounted to very strong points - that IMO stiffen the car better that the other options out there as well.
As far as the forward legs and swingouts. That system has a bit to be desired. Once you mock everything up - no matter how good you do it - even with the backing plates the floor pan flexes a bit so fitment is a bit sloppy. Also - if you go with this bar expect it to come so the swing arm fitment is too tight and will require some filing down to get dialed in. Honestly, if I did it again I wouldn't add the swingouts as I've never used them once to get in and out of the car but I'm also 6' and 165lbs so pretty thin. It's tight on the drivers side. Also - do not order an OMP WRC or similar seat with wide shoulder wings for any 6 pt bar system as they hit the side (or use my photo as a guideline and see if the forward legs are lower). The HRE halo seat fits without any rub. We had to cut and grind away (took 7 tries as we did just a little at a time) some of the fiberglass on the passenger seat to get the fitment to work - but once done it's bad ass. And as far as comfort goes if you're still daily driving it's way more comfortable than the Halo for that.
Anyway - if I was only tracking I'd have gotten the ABF 4pt bar but since I'm doing some Hillclimbs I added the extra protection in case of an off.
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