Fitting harnesses

[23e Heure]

...I have vgc backpad in my car, will be removing it, it will be for sale...

[23e Heure]

Oh, and same goes for my seats. Black vinyl with basketweave centres. Will be for sale...

[gridgway]

What seats are you going to fit James?

[gridgway]

Just had a firkle about behind the seats. Something has been going on there in the past with some holes in the bulkhead. It's just not obvious what.

However, I did find wires going to the seat bases...heated seats?

Graham

[23e Heure]

"Fasten your seatbelt" sensor wires

[Mr Pharmacist]

Let me know when your back pad and seats are available James. Mine is a 1970 so has the fixed passenger seat originally but I'd be interested in your interior bits

[Mr Pharmacist]

Oh and on the subject of seats Graham, I have bucket seats in mine at the moment - I have discovered there a good reason the original seats don't have any sides

[23e Heure]

The secret might be not to stop too often to get out and back in

[Mr Pharmacist]

That would be best option but when I'm hill climbing I feel like I'm in and out like a fiddlers elbow.

As my MOT man says every year 'That'll be £40 for the MOT and £50 for the cyropracter'

[rhd racer]

The racers do not use harness bar.
They all do the bolt thru firewall option, typically with a plates on the engine side, to spread the load

That's how I did mine Graham, just make sure you have decided on your seat final position so you get the angle of the harnesses correct (5 degree or so relative to the seat opening if I remember correctly)

Cheers
Wayne

[gridgway]

Doh!

"Fasten your seatbelt" sensor wires

[gridgway]

Did you use a strengthening plate Wayne? What thickness and size?
Graham

[rhd racer]

Hi Graham

I just used the standard FIA plates - I think they are 50mm square or so, and about 3mm thick. They have a thread for a standard seat belt, so screwed eyelets into them from inside the car to attach the harness shackles to.

I think the panel is up to it without any more than that, and they never got so much as a comment in c100 scrutineering sessions!

Having said that, my roll cage is a 5 point jobbie, so the whole bulkhead is braced to the cage with an enormous spreader plate only inches from the inner of the two mounts, so adds a lot of strength to the panel overall.

Cheers
Wayne

[gridgway]

Thanks Wayne, will go for the FIA spec plates then - assuming when I get the seat test fitted it looks like a goer. It won't be scrutineered as it's just going to be road going.
Graham

[rhd racer]

Amazed you could understand my reply Graham - auto type had turned it into complete tosh so have edited!!!