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In response to Motormasher, I drive a winged 410 in OH. My seat is a lightweight Ultrashield that I welded on the Randy Lajoie head & neck kit to. I then added 1/4" thick ribs along the shoulder wraparounds so I could fasten 1/4" U-shaped aluminum pcs to the A-frame behind the seat (similar to how a Butlerbuilt Advantage seat attaches to the frame). In addition, I hand formed 3/4" aluminum tubing to match the outline of the bottom two-thirds of the seat, then split the tubing length wise and welded it to the seat. I now have a custom, very stiff full-containment seat that I love, that I only have about $750 in.
Even though that is his opinion, as he stated-and apparantly from a fans point of view- Motormasher couldn't be more wrong. On the roughest tracks we race on, I can only remember my head hitting the side supports once or twice. While I don't run any nets since I made this seat (they don't fit through the seat), not once did a net or my head supports on my seat ever obstruct my vision, even when I have went to L'burg or Moler and ran non-winged. With my helmet on, I have about an inch of play on either side of my helmet. Many people don't realize how much better the better seats are for your back in a side crash, just due to the stiffness. I slid into a tracter tire sideways a couple of years ago, busting the rearend housing and bending the car like a banana. I was fine, with the exception of my seat opening so far that my back was pretty far out of whack for quite a while. My current seat will not budge in a hit like that, if it ever happens again.
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