I really like my seats - in particular the fact that they're power adjust and heated. However, I would love a 3, 4, or 5pt harness.

Is it possible to have my stock seats modified to have a seatbelt harness installed? If so - what kind of cost am I looking at, and how long do you think it would take?

Thanks

 

I personally would not know. Racing seats I believe are a fiberglass molded shell shaped to ergonomically fit your back and ***, and the hard shell has slots in them to accept multi-point belts.

To retrofit the stock seats with multi-point harnesses, you would have to cut it open, rip out the cushions, create a hard shell with the appropriate cuts to accept the belts, cut new foam pieces to form cushions to go over the shell, and then slip that back into the seat and sew that back together again.

How much all this will cost? I unfortunately do not even have a clue.

 

You can just run a harness bar with harnesses that come over the top of them...

 

Whats a harness bar?

 

http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&q...w=1024&bih=563

 

And if you get either of the Sparcos that are shown, or any other harness bar that features little loops that the belts run through . . . do not under any circumstances use the loops as something to attach the belts to.

People have been known to do exactly that, and I know of at least one respected cage fabricator who has and will cut those things off if he sees them on a car that comes into his shop.


Make sure that the belt angle as it goes back from your shoulders is not too far "down". The risk is spinal compression if it is. Most sanctioning bodies will have a spec for this, and even if you aren't running in wheel to wheel road racing it would be a really good idea to set your belt arrangement up like you were going to.


Norm