new racing seats

kelly_s · #1 (**permalink**) 11-01-2005, 05:27 PM

i am goin to be putting racing seats in my car but i need to keep my stock seat belts for legal reasons. the main problem is that the seat belt is built into the stock seat. i was sondering if there were any ways to keep the seat belt by using premade brackets or am i goin to have to make my own? thanks a lot

OPTIMO · #2 (**permalink**) 11-07-2005, 05:25 PM

If it's not FIA certified to withstand a proper crash load, you're wasting your money.

Look at Cobra.

hbombfilmsstar · #3 (**permalink**) 11-17-2005, 04:46 PM

a cop pulled me over once to see my seatbelts that i have. 5-points. he loved em. he actually wanted to buy them for his cop car since the stock seatbelts in all cars suck. i am not kidding you.

328ischef · #4 (**permalink**) 11-17-2005, 10:19 PM

haha, thats awesome...but an occurance like that is rare id imagine. most cops would rather be a dick, and take notice to the brand name and maybeee worry about it later.

s_ribbens · #5 (**permalink**) 12-01-2005, 11:43 AM

If you go to europeancarweb.com and look at project 325is, he did this with some Cobra seats. I'm not really sure how he retained the stock seat belts though. I'd have to go re-read the article to see if I can figure it out.

I'll be looking into this soon when I order my Momo RS-GT seats.

NMJ-045 · #6 (**permalink**) 12-05-2005, 05:33 AM

On my e36 M3 the stock buckles just come off the seat and I bolted them back into the hole where they came from after installing a Momo race seat.

It’s not hard to do and even if your race seat’s rails used the same hole in the car, you could still put the seat belt buckle in there as well because the bracket it sits on is quite thin.

I'd say the US seats are the same as the EURO...

Sorry best pic I have….

Hope it helps.

kelly_s · #7 (**permalink**) 12-07-2005, 08:26 PM

this brings my hopes up. i didnt kno that you can take the seatbelt part off of the seat. thanks guys for the info

got the pic from europeancarweb.com, project 325is

AlaskaBlue · #8 (**permalink**) 01-13-2006, 06:14 PM

Take one of the rear seat belt clip attachment things and bolt it to the seat mounting bracket.

AlaskaBlue · #9 (**permalink**) 01-13-2006, 06:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hbombfilmsstar

a cop pulled me over once to see my seatbelts that i have. 5-points. he loved em. he actually wanted to buy them for his cop car since the stock seatbelts in all cars suck. i am not kidding you.

Race type harnesses are not reccommended for street driven cars because the limi movement too much. If the car rolls over you wont be able to get out of the way of the collapsing roof. If you want street legal harnesses get some scroth harnesses they are DOT approved.