Robotsan
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Sure is!
Thought so! How're you finding the car?
Sure is!
Full of niggly issues that mean it's not quite safe to drive a long way yet................................. It puts a smile on my face just being on the drive though. I knew it was going to be a long term project, hopefully it will be a driving project not consigned to the garage for years to come. Bought it to enjoy it and fix it along the way.
The Securon’s that I mentioned above (500/30) are almost a perfect bolt in fit. The reels are able to fit nicely on the rising bulkhead in front of the cubby holes. They have the additional pillar loop on the belt to fix up at the rear quarter window/roof pillar. I’ve bought some additional fixing point reinforcement plates to go in behind the reel mounts. Because they are gravity locked to dispense the belt in the vertical position they don’t have the adjustment knobs on the reels and end up being a lot more compact. I’ll post the fitting of them up in my thread once they’re finished.I assume you need to make up some brackets to fit them, or is there a kit available? Do the inertia reels bolt onto the rear strut towers?
YepAhh ok, thanks. So it can happen with any S30?
If one were to present itself to me within my budget then I would absolutely consider one, but I've not seen too many in the last year like that. The ones in the US always seem to be 2+2s, and the few I've seen here have either been wrecks or out of my budget.
Seatbelts - the 240 I drove had the strange vintage ones where you somehow (I didn't figure it out, and the owner doesn't use them!) clip one thing into another clip and they both go into a 3rd part?! It had barely any give in it - not sure it was even an inertia reel?). I think she would run a mile if that was the offering. So would a 280z have a more modern inertia reel seatbelt as you'd in find in 80s and onwards cars? I'm aware I could probably fit more modern seatbelts to a 240z, but its just another thing to pay for.
Good info. Thanks. I'll look out for your postThe Securon’s that I mentioned above (500/30) are almost a perfect bolt in fit. The reels are able to fit nicely on the rising bulkhead in front of the cubby holes. They have the additional pillar loop on the belt to fix up at the rear quarter window/roof pillar. I’ve bought some additional fixing point reinforcement plates to go in behind the reel mounts. Because they are gravity locked to dispense the belt in the vertical position they don’t have the adjustment knobs on the reels and end up being a lot more compact. I’ll post the fitting of them up in my thread once they’re finished.
The ones that Kieron has posted require the reel to be mounted up in the C pillar or strut tower. I couldn’t get this design to work in my head to be honest. Mounting on the strut towers would have resulted in the belt pulling down on the shoulder area. This picture shows the two differences I’m attempting to explain:
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Worth pointing out that if you get in a serious crash in a classic Zed, you're basically going to be pâté inside it regardless of what belts are fitted.