Bucket seats

[chubbybeats]

This may be a stupid qustion but can you use the orginal seatbelts with bucket seats installed? If so how? i take it if you have a harness you have to start putting holes through your floor to fit them?

[BenH]

A harness would need to attach via eye-bolts usually, which replace the rear seat belt mounts under the rear seat, and in the case of the BRM would need plating and drilling for the front mounts seperately, unless you wanted to chop up / remove the interior trim to get to the existing front bolts and replace them with eye bolts too.

An eye bolt is a bolt with a metal loop on its head, through which the harness clips.

If a 5 point harness is being fitted, then a hole and spreader plate would be needed for the crotch strap mounting. The rear seat needs removing for the rear straps to work effectively, although you could possibly thread the straps between the seat base and seat back, but the seat base will probably get very scratched. And you'll get complaints from any rear seat passengers! :):)

I've trackdayed mine with a 4 point harness, where I've removed the rear seat and replaced the two rear belt mounts on the drivers side with eye bolts, and clipped the harness to these. I've then clipped the harness lapstrap to itself under the drivers seat, and worn the normal seatbelt over the top of the harness.

In this instance, the harness was purely to keep me secure in the drivers seat and stop any sliding around, and the standard seatbelt was for actual restraint purposes. Not ideal I know, but without butchering the trim / drilling holes etc it was a bit tricky!

Oh, just remembered, the left hand lap belt mounting is integral with the seat unit on the BRM, so if replacement seats are being fitted holes will need drilling anyway. Good luck, I'd love to put bucket seats in mine. :):)

[Adam]

I'm sure there is a typre of bucket that you can utilise the original belts with, can't remember the exact spec of the top of my head.

However with buckets you have to remember you'll need frames to sit them on and that can restrict your choices if your utilising the original mounting points.