Parachute handle mounting...

Can you guys post some pics of where and how you got your chute handles mounted?

not much help cuz i already had it off in this pic. my new setup has a stud welded to the roof bar.

I don't have a roof bar...

mines on the side....... but I have a dragster.

no roof bar but you have a chute i've saw them mounted on/by the shifter before. search on YB

I would assume I don't need a roof bar since it cert'd to 8.50 just fine

Where would the roof bar have to go if I were to add one?

i'd thought you had one....

Nope. No roof bar.

jbozzelle wrote:Nope. No roof bar.

So add a small one..........

What's the rules for tube diameter?

in the floor..... http://www.yellowbullet.com/forum/showthread.php?t=482631&highlight=chute+handle

jbozzelle wrote:I don't have a roof bar...

On some smaller bodied stock suspension, mini-tub, or back half cars that don't have a diagonal roof bar or FC cage (8.50 & slower cert) to mount the 'chute lever too, if you happen to sit close enough to the top windshield bar you can sometimes use that to mount the release lever too.

But that's usually not an option on a lot of full chassis cars since you usually sit farther back in them.

no rule for that as far as I know, its for mounting a lever, not part of the structure or SFI requirement.

jbozzelle wrote:What's the rules for tube diameter?

On a 8.50 & slower cert you can use whatever OD tube you want for a diagonal roof bar since it's not required to have one untill you get into the faster SFI certs.

a few more pic's and ideas. http://www.yellowbullet.com/forum/showthread.php?t=237627&highlight=chute+handle

In my stock body Fox I use the factory parking brake handle.

I used a scrap chunk of 1/2" aluminum plate, made it into a billet angle clamp cable mount. I mounted the pivot to an old fan mount tube on the cage windshield bar. The drill bit was Pre bolt...
Works nice...
Keith

Rich Osmond wrote:In my stock body Fox I use the factory parking brake handle.