Sabelt 4 Point Seat Harness's
For track use, no car is really complete without a set of harness
belts. Since this is a daily driver I wanted to install a set of
belts that were not completely unusable on the street and easy to
remove/install when I went to the track. The Sabelt (Sparco) 4 point
belts (also referred as 4 point H belts) uses a Y type of design where the
two shoulder belts meet and are secured to the vehicle via one belt. This
design also utilizes a buckle system for the rear belt (allows you to
easily remove it) and clip mounts for the lap belt
To start this
project, I determined that I wanted to use all factory mount points (hence
why I chose the H belt design). This picture shows the transmission
tunnel mounting point for the factory belt. I removed the 10 mm bolt
and replaced it with a eye bolt that comes with the Sabelts. Of
course, the Sabelts only come with one eye bolt, I needed two for mounting
of the lap belts. These need to be purchased in kit form and cost
about $10 dollars.
This is the outer side of the lap belt mounting point, it has a larger
17 mm bolt (internal threads are the same on all three mount points and
the threads match the eye bolts Sparco sells)
The factory bolts
have some plastic washers and lock washer, in this picture you can see how
I used the plastic washers/lock washers to secure the Sparco eye bolt.
You don't need to use the spacer that is used on the stock mounting bolt.
Another picture
of the eye bolt and the lock washer in place.
This is the outer
lap belt mount utilizing the eye bolt. When finished, the factory 3
point belts are still in place and usable for day to day driving.
This is the eye
bolt on the transmission tunnel. The black plastic cover plate can
not be removed, you need to either leave it where it is shown or cut it
off.
To mount the rear
belt, I removed the back seat and mounted the rear belt to the factory 3rd
person mounting point.
You can can see
the rear belt now and notice the buckle, you can disconnect the harness
from here and tuck the remaining belt into the back seat. Takes
about 3 minutes to remove/install the belts
Here are the belts
mounted and waiting.
Here you can see how the Sabelts clip onto the eye bolts. This makes
is very easy to install/remove these belts and functionality of the
factory 3 point belts is not hindered.
This is the other
side of the lap belts showing how the Sabelt is clipped onto the eye bolt.