The three cheapest FIA 8856-2018 race suits we sell, with matching boots and gloves, and the genuinely cheapest legal set at £519.60. Includes the three items near the top of our own price list that will not get you through scrutineering.
What fitting a BC Racing coilover kit actually involves, why alignment comes straight after, and what to ask a workshop if you’re paying someone to do the job.
Three different approvals sit on our glove shelves and they are not interchangeable: FIA 8856-2018 for cars, FIA 8877-2022 for karting, and Non-FIA. How to tell which you need, then how to size them.
Motorsport UK does not require a full face helmet in an open car. It requires a visor or goggles unless you are in a closed vehicle. The actual rules quoted with article numbers, what counts as closed, and where open cockpit does change things.
The kit you actually need for a first track day, what can wait, and why the brake fluid matters more than the race suit. Three budgets worked through, from the trade counter.
BC Racing covers 29 Suzuki fitments across 19 models, from the classic Swift through to the current ZCEDS generation. The Jimny JB64W is listed twice for good reason.
What FIA 8856-2018 is and what it replaced, why an SFI suit will not pass where FIA is required, what the layer count really changes, and the full price ladder from £192 to £1,245.60.
Sparco and OMP suits use the same numbered ladder, but OMP set each chest band about a centimetre higher. Boots are identical between the two. Gloves run the other way. The measurements, and how to read them.
OMP has added three hand held extinguishers this year, running from £80 to £298. They are all FIA and Motorsport UK approved, and they contain three completely different things. Cameron on which agent belongs in a cockpit and which belongs in the workshop.
A HANS relies on harness shoulder straps to hold it down, so it cannot work with a standard three point belt. What the yoke needs, what the Simpson Hybrid S changes, and the order to buy things in.
Nissan is our biggest hub range at 84 kits. B-G stop at the R33 Skyline and the 350Z is MOMO only. Here is what fits what.
OMP now lists ten plumbed-in fire extinguisher systems and the names look like a random string of letters. They are not. Cameron decodes FAL, SAL, SST and the 6 and 7 suffix, and works out what an alloy bottle actually buys you.
Not sure what fits, which approval you need, or what to choose next? Ask Garreth and Cameron. You’ll get a practical answer from people who handle the kit every day.
