[DeTomaso] Seat Belts
Steve Hawkins
shawkins6 at houston.rr.com
Fri Feb 23 18:22:13 EST 2007
I replaced mine with a 3 point from one of the vendors. It uses the stock
attachment points.
Steve
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From: detomaso-bounces at realbig.com [mailto:detomaso-bounces at realbig.com] On
Behalf Of JDeRyke at aol.com
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 1:56 AM
To: jmontero at fcmat.org; detomaso at realbig.com
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Seat Belts
In a message dated 2/21/07 12:13:21 PM, jmontero at fcmat.org writes:
<<... My question is, can I convert my car to the more modern single belt
setup with the retractors? Has anyone done this conversion and, if so, what
is
involved? >>
Major problem unless you're good at interior work; my daughter-in-law did
this one. What's involved is to find a set of stock late-'73-up belts in
good
condition. The lap belts swap right into your car. The integral shoulder
harnesses are the problem since they are attached to their own retractors
sunk into
the firewall on later cars. Your early firewall likely has no depressions
built
into the steel, and the upholstered surrounding is not made to accept the
shoulder harness retractors, either.
Your choices: spend a ton of money to mod your car, sell your car & buy a
late '73-up Pantera, or stay satisfied with the arguably handier detachable
shoulder harness of the early setup. Or go to a bolt-in aftermarket system
which is
probably safer anyway and certainly will be much less effort. And you can
always unbolt racing harnesses & reinstall the stock ones for shows. Good
luck- J
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