CMC Speedster 356 seat belt mounting question

Slightly close one eye - or use the one with the cataracts.

@Tom Buchanan

Tom, which of these two pans is your car or are they both of your car? 

@Tom Buchanan posted:

That's the speedster  Alan that you wired for me a few months back.  Have Connie smack ya up the side of the head to remind ya !!!!

Change your name to Alan "C. Nile" Merklin LOL!

It's the one with the solid steel floor boards.

id still put some big washers on it..

@DannyP posted:

Change your name to Alan "C. Nile" Merklin LOL!

That was funny!   I did think sometimes with the amount of cars Alan has done it must be like wanting to forget an old girlfriend

@IaM-Ray posted:

That was funny!   I did think sometimes with the amount of cars Alan has done it must be like wanting to forget an old girlfriend

...............and what a list that is sorta like a,  scroll :~)

It’s interesting that even newbie questions can expand into some great info for all of us and maybe some car updates:

I followed Lane’s comments about the height of the mount point  for the belt over your shoulder on a 3-point setup.   I set mine a bit lower on my roll bar than they should be because I installed them way back when I built the car (way before joining this group), when I had different seats, and I also wanted to keep the belt under the tonneau to look classier.  Also, I’m working with a belt set scavenged from a junked car which are not perfect for my car but what’cha gonna do?  I’m making lemonade, here.

Anyway, big mistake - My belts retract and they have always been difficult to use, so I got out there today and started moving them up higher so the shoulder mount point will be slightly above the top of the seat and will now be above the tonneau.   While doing that I made the belt route straighter to make it easier to retract, too.  This may be for naught if the tonneau crimps the belt when I get it back in place, but we’ll see.

Got one side done and figured out how NOT to do it twice until the third time was the charm, but the other side will be “Mahvelous” and should go a lot quicker, now that I’ve learned how to do it right.  In the end, I’ll have a safer set-up because of this thread and I can coach others on how NOT to break three new drill bits in the process.  

Thanks, to all of you!

I happen to be installing seatbelts in a Speedster I'm currently working on and thought the pictures might help you out.  It's really a pretty easy job and you might just give it try.  Even though you could use the seat mount bolts, I wouldn't recommend it, they are not as large as the regular seatbelts bolts.

Here’s my new upper belt mount, now just above the seatback.  One down, one to go, but I have to buy some more drills.  🤬

Thank you

Thanks,
John "Josh" Bungen
407-205-3257

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