Building a rear strut bar to replace the rear seats and act as place to put a camera mount and racing harness. I have been thinking about doing a RSB for awhile but recently a good friend of mine who is putting together a cycle race asked if I would be the pace car/camera car for the event which gave me the perfect excuse to actually get it done. Its not finished yet, pretty much just roughed together, but it's coming along well. Let me know what you think, sorry for the shitty pictures:





Decided to use the old headrests as backrests, works pretty well.

 

looks pretty unique. now to see if it has any performance gains!

 

I'm looking to mount a camera closer up, just behind the B-pillar. Has anyone seen any sturdy bars for the B-pillar (or a small floor mounted harness bar) for R56? I don't want to install a whole cage just to mount a camera...

 

That will not work as a harness bar. wrong material and location.

 

Mod-Mini is not looking to install racing harnesses. He's looking to to have a spot to mount a camera, so pretty mucg anything would work.

 

I bought this one a few weeks ago from Donald the Bonald on Ebay. Haven't installed it yet.

 

No, but the OP is

 

10 years ago he was...

 

wow I missed that one also LOL

 

I was still only on my second cup of coffee, now that I am halfway through the 5th I can see that clearly!

 

 

If you look at a picture of the sheet metal structure behind the latches for the rear seatbacks, you will immediately see that there isn't much structural strength there and it will not provide any lateral rigidity. Nor is it an appropriate place for attaching a harness bar. I was thinking about various bars or trusses using the rear seat latch mounting points and the rear seatbelt latch mounting point until I figured out what was actually underneath.

 

Craven has a camera mount that goes on the passenger seat headrest. I built a much less elegant solution with some aluminum square tubing and a couple of J hooks.

 

Ha.......missed the OP date too!!