If it's any help I have a rollbar in my '71 Austin Sprite (BTW built May
'71, registered December '71). This has the standard factory three point
belt on the passenger side and a four point harness on the driver's side,
picking up on the three standard mounts and one extra eyebolt on the hump
above the axle. Neither belt interferes with the roll bar (an off-the-shelf
motorsport approved bar, single full width hoop with rear stays and
diagonal).
Neil
-----Original Message-----
From: Bryan Vandiver <Bryan.Vandiver@Eng.Sun.COM>
To: spridgets@autox.team.net <spridgets@autox.team.net>;
conan@ralvm8.vnet.ibm.com <conan@ralvm8.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Bryan.Vandiver@Eng.Sun.COM <Bryan.Vandiver@Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: Friday, August 06, 1999 1:16 AM
Subject: re: bugeye seat belt mounting points
>Thanks for the tip..
>
>I think what I'm going to end up doing, is mount to the normal location on
the
>wheel arch for when the roll-bar is not in the car, and then relocate it to
a
>point on the roll-bar, when I have that installed. That way, I can use
either
>location depending on whether I have the roll bar in or not. I was hoping
to
>have just one mounting location, but it appears that is probably too much
of a
>problem to try and work out.
>
>Thanks again everyone for your input on this.
>
>BTW - I Plan to take this car for it's first test drive either tomorrow, or
>Saturday, so that's why I've been asking so many questions the last two
weeks.
>
>Regards,
>Bryan Vandiver - 59 bugeye
>San Jose CA
>CTE engineer - Sun Microsystems (JavaSoft)
>
>>To: spridgets@autox.team.net
>>cc: Bryan.Vandiver@eng.sun.com
>>Subject: re: bugeye seat belt mounting points
>>
>> Hi Bryan,
>> How 'bout shortening the belt and mounting it directly to the vertical
>>bar of the roll bar?
>> One of my favorite seatbelts was the factory rectractable 3-point that
>>had the upper loop for the shoulder harness mounted that way in my Jeep
CJ-7.
>> (I think it actually ran from the retractor at the base of the rollbar
>>vertical, up to a guide on the rollbar vertical just above shoulder
height,
>>and then to the buckle.)
>> Ed in NC
>
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