Harness question

[Beaniemoo]

Just a bit of a question for anyone who knows about harnesses and the safe ways to mount them. As some of you know we're building a track clio and have recently mounted the seats. Because of the original seats in the clio being mounted to the top of the tunnel we've had to mount the seats very close to the tunnel to keep it in line with the steering wheel. This now means when we come to mount the lap eblt of the hanesses they're going to be pulled very tightly around the seat to go back to the tunnel.

Does anyone know (very crude diagram i admit) if it would be safe to mount the harnesses to the opposite side of the tunnel to give them a better angle of strain?

 

[Charlieboy]

Either where the original mounts were for the rear seat belts or on the roll cage

 

[Renault_Boy01]

opposite side of the tunnel would be fine IMO (dont quote me on that). I dont see the problem if its bolted down safely

 

[Beaniemoo]

I've had my thinking hat on all day trying to think of problems but i can't see any reason not to it makes the angle much less sharp and less stress on the seat

 

[Renault_Boy01]

does it not get in the way of the handbrake

 

[Beaniemoo]

Doesn't seem to no.

 

[Renault_Boy01]

go for it then !

 

[edde]

Theres only one right way

Where harnesses should be located.
http://www.cliosport.net/forum/showthread.php?t=224554

 

[Beaniemoo]

Theres only one right way

Where harnesses should be located.
http://www.cliosport.net/forum/showthread.php?t=224554

As you can see we have a harness bar which is the correct height for the shoulder straps which we're gonna use. What i was asking was about the lap straps on the tunnel sides of the seat (see red lines on picture).

What do you reckon??

 

[edde]

Theres only one right way

Where harnesses should be located.
http://www.cliosport.net/forum/showthread.php?t=224554

As you can see we have a harness bar which is the correct height for the shoulder straps which we're gonna use. What i was asking was about the lap straps on the tunnel sides of the seat (see red lines on picture).

What do you reckon??

Nope mount them near the seat and other strong parts the shorter the blts the better since they stretch when in a crash etc which isn't what you want them for.

 

[Beaniemoo]

As you can see we have a harness bar which is the correct height for the shoulder straps which we're gonna use. What i was asking was about the lap straps on the tunnel sides of the seat (see red lines on picture).

What do you reckon??

Nope mount them near the seat and other strong parts the shorter the blts the better since they stretch when in a crash etc which isn't what you want them for.

Problem with that is the lenghts of the buckle to the outer mount will be much longer than to the inner mount unless we mount them as we say. Surely we'd want to keep the distances more even so the belt will pull square because as you said they will stretch in the event of an accident