Seat Harness mounting, following on from 'Race Seats!' thread.. Options

[raz128]

Anyone want to clear this up for me?
I've got a 4point harness on my driver seat and a 3point harness on my passenger seat
When I bought the 3-point harness. The instruction booklet said to mount the tail strap of the harness between 0-45 degrees paralell to the ground which i did on the passenger side.
After doing some research to see if i could confirm it, the Schroth harnesses said the same thing

However i did come across this:
http://www.gforce.com/pdf/harnessinstall.pdf
for those too lazy to read it (or cant run pdf files) it says it's best to mount the tail strap -5 to +30degrees from a horizontal line to shoulder height.

Which is best mount to use? The lower point under the original rear seats or on the C-pillar?
The mounting point on the C-pillar would be within -5 to +30degrees that the pdf file states. but does it satisfy the 0 to +45degree instructions by OMP and Scroth?





This post has been edited by raz128: Jan 30, 2007 - 10:18 AM

[Diab1o_3000]

Unless it's specifically designed for mounting a harness to it, don't do it!
The mounting points of strut bars or nowhere near strong enough in comparison to a oem seat-belt mounting point. A strut bar bolts to your top-mounts, not for attatching harnesses to.

The are actual harness bars available (not sure if any to fit the celica, though) that do mount to the oem seat belt points.

I actually saw something about that on these forums and completely forgot. Some guy actually had one fabricated for his 6th gen. You should be able to search for it. Sorry if I gave bad advice, but it was just my opinion on the matter.

Actually its 0 - 45 degrees. I've got my harness setup like the passenger side of the first pic (the three point). The danger comes when people bolt their harnessess to the floor...near the seat brackets. Raz's look fine...all the places he's bolted them up to are quite safe.


how do you feel knowing you are now in the hospital knowing you're a paraplegic.
and contributing to other peoples potentially life threatening situation?
please don't give any more advice since you are very wrong.

While I agree with your basic point, I don't think it was necessary to go that far with it. I'm sure he thought he was right, or:
1. He wouldn't say anything, and
2. He wouldn't have HIS harnesses mounted like that!
I just think that you could have gotten your idea across with a little more tact and less anger seeing as how we are all kind of part of an extended "family". That kind of attitude isn't needed on these forums and especially not towards a fellow 6th gen-er.