Harness mounting points (again)

[Womble]

Hopefully in the correct section, after some advice, I don't want to cover the whole you can't fit harnesses etc, but I would like to know if anyone has managed to fit harness lap belts successfully. I had them in my Megane with a harness bar but there is not one available for the Clio but I have a plan for the shoulder straps it is the lap belts I'm struggling with. Here are a couple of pictures of the points in my Megane but I'm not sure if I can do the same in the Clio as the seats are really close to the tunnel.

 

[steve11]

My lower eye bolts are in the rear floor just behind the Recaro seat runners, uppers are in harness bar.
Also be sure to fit reinforcement plates underneath.

 

[Womble]

Thankyou any chance of a cheeky picture please?

 

[steve11]

Here you go...
The floor mounts have reinforcement plates on underside for i-bolts.
Harness/strut bar has crush tubes inside bar for i-bolts.
Have been racing car like this for 2 full seasons, has been scrutineered many times & has been engineer approved.
Installation has been tested with 2 x big 'offs' & performed flawlessly.

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[Womble]

Thanks for those, where does the Strut bar bolt on? Is it bolted top and bottom? I presume with the floor mounts, the belts are a tight fit between the seat and the tunnel? I was thinking of using exactly the same rear mount as you, did you put the reinforcing inside? I was going to wrap my straps round the bar, if it is strong enough. Just struggling with the floor mounts. I was thinking of putting one in the side of the tunnel and the other in the door pillar if I can get a reinforcing plate in. Do you have a picture with the lap belts in? As that is probably the easiest solution, I just want to get as good a run as possible.

 

[steve11]

Thanks for those, where does the Strut bar bolt on? Is it bolted top and bottom? I presume with the floor mounts, the belts are a tight fit between the seat and the tunnel? I was thinking of using exactly the same rear mount as you, did you put the reinforcing inside? I was going to wrap my straps round the bar, if it is strong enough. Just struggling with the floor mounts. I was thinking of putting one in the side of the tunnel and the other in the door pillar if I can get a reinforcing plate in. Do you have a picture with the lap belts in? As that is probably the easiest solution, I just want to get as good a run as possible.

Yep strut bar has 4 good mounting points.
For the floor mount i-bolts i used 120mm x 60mm plates (racing requirement in Oz) underneath the floorpan & 50mm o-d washers inside.
Wrapping straps around the bar is a good solution as you wont need to fit crush tubes inside the bar.
Using the existing lower seatbelt mount in the b-pillar is probably ideal but i couldn't find an i-bolt with the correct thread needed.
My setup does allow the floor mount belts to sit nicely if you decide to go that way.