07-07-2004, 11:24 PM
GQROB Wrote:I thought that the neck collars are for safety in the event of an impact? They limit the head from over tilting in an impact, limiting the possibility of neck injury.Rob that is initially what I thought, but think about it like this: you can squeeze it and deform it with your hands. Its not going to do anything but compress to nothing in a 10g decelleration.
The same reason why the foam (non-SFI) rollbar padding is useless.
In fact it could be said that they are adding more harm since they are adding more mass attatched to your head. May not seem like much but in a 10g decelleration, that 2lb neck brace exerts and extra 20lbs of force directly on your neck, in addition to the other forces already fucking your ass up :lol: (yes that is the technical term for it)