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08-25-2007, 03:57 PM
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seats
iv been building this kit car for a little over a year now (i guess it most resembles a GT40) but i bought some corbeau seat for it but cant get them to fit in the car there about 2 inches too wide and after lots of trying i gave up. they have been sitting wrapped up in my garage for about 6 months now and realize i have nothing to do with them. so i decided i might as well put them in the camaro i wanted to know if anyone has seats like these in there cars and how they work with the stock seat belts. also if anyone has pictures id like to see how they would look. thanks.
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08-25-2007, 07:57 PM
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You'll prolly have to post up pics or at least a model name. Corbeau makes lots of different seats....
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08-25-2007, 11:09 PM
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Resident Camera Guy
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They will work with stock seat belts but most likely you will end up fabricating your own seat mounts. I have a set of Racing seats in my car and I had to make my own. I know Corbeau makes brackets but they are pretty costly for F-bodies.
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08-26-2007, 12:41 AM
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the seats are forza 2's and yea the brackets are like 80 bucks. kinda sucks i didn't really wanna spend much money just wanted to use the seats that have been gathering dust in my garage. but i was really just worried about how they would work with stock seat belts im already worried there gonna look ricerish there's no way I'm gonna put harnesses in.
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08-26-2007, 02:14 PM
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How would a factory seat belt look ricer-ish? Its safety and its function who gives a crap?
I have my factory seat-belt still in my car. The seats are black & my belts are black. I have a Y-Harness thats replacing the factory seat-belt shortly and it looks exactly like a factory seat-belt but with a harness coming through the seat.
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08-26-2007, 03:06 PM
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How do these harnesses attach? Many of the ones I see in 'ricers' are not safe.
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The looser the waistband, the deeper the quicksand. Or so I have read.
Feather-light suspension, Konis just couldn't hold. I'm so glad I took a look inside your showroom doors.
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08-26-2007, 03:19 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ar0ck
How would a factory seat belt look ricer-ish? Its safety and its function who gives a crap?
I have my factory seat-belt still in my car. The seats are black & my belts are black. I have a Y-Harness thats replacing the factory seat-belt shortly and it looks exactly like a factory seat-belt but with a harness coming through the seat.
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no i ment a racing harness will look ricerish i want to keep the factory seat belts i think they look alot better.
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08-26-2007, 04:09 PM
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I agree. The only problem is w/o the guide the belt may ride too high.
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The looser the waistband, the deeper the quicksand. Or so I have read.
Feather-light suspension, Konis just couldn't hold. I'm so glad I took a look inside your showroom doors.
Hey everybody, it's good to have you on the Baba-too-da-ba-too-ba-ba-buh-doo-ga-ga-bop-a-dop
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08-26-2007, 04:14 PM
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yea thats what i was worried about, i wanted to know if anyone else had used the stock belts.
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08-27-2007, 11:45 PM
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arizen makes racing seats with seatbelt guides. most of their customers are fbodys.check them out
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08-27-2007, 11:57 PM
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Resident Camera Guy
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Heres my stock seat-belt sitting loose with my racing seats. its super uncomfortable.
And my new Harness thats replacing it. They came with the seats and were cheap. They will be mounted into the stock seat-belt location for the lap belt, and the Y is attached to my roll bar.
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08-28-2007, 08:54 AM
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so it is uncomfortable, then does anyone know of harnesses that attach to the stock locations and doesn't look bad?
Last edited by Z28Justin; 08-28-2007 at 08:58 AM.
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08-28-2007, 09:53 AM
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Originally Posted by Z28Justin
so it is uncomfortable, then does anyone know of harnesses that attach to the stock locations and doesn't look bad?
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I haven't seen a set of safety harnesses that mount to stock locations aside from the lap belt section. You can't just cobble the shoulder harnesses any which way, either. In an accident improperly installed shoulder harnesses can lead to compressed discs and all kinds of serious spine injuries.
Something to remember abot Y harnesses as well- they are no longer certifiable under SFI Spec 16.1, so they won't be NHRA legal, unless they were manufactured before the new rule was in place (in which case they are grandfathered).
In your case I would use the race seats but see if I could create my own type of shoulder guide. Or, alternatively you can look into installing a roll bar and harnesses, but that is much more $.
The other option is to sell the seats, IMO.
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08-28-2007, 10:05 AM
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i was thinking i might be able to run the shoulder belt through the spot where the harness goes and it might not be uncomfortable. but if not your right selling them would be better then them getting wasted in my garage, kinda suck there really nice seats.
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08-28-2007, 01:37 PM
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Yep, there you go!
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08-28-2007, 05:20 PM
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im gonna punch myself in teh face. go here:
http://www.arizenracingsports.com/Me...2/merchant.mvc
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Except Jersey mike, great kid, but the way he looks at me makes me feel like im in danger
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08-28-2007, 05:40 PM
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nice plenty of good pics on there, i think im gonna like them. thanks.
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09-08-2007, 12:42 AM
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ok so i finally went to the junk yard a few days ago got some parts to make brackets, and here they are...
what do you think?
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09-08-2007, 01:15 PM
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Looks great!
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09-08-2007, 04:56 PM
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Looks good!
Post up a pic of the brackets too so we can see your handiwork....
- Justin
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09-08-2007, 05:02 PM
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When I really do the 77, they got my business.
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The looser the waistband, the deeper the quicksand. Or so I have read.
Feather-light suspension, Konis just couldn't hold. I'm so glad I took a look inside your showroom doors.
Hey everybody, it's good to have you on the Baba-too-da-ba-too-ba-ba-buh-doo-ga-ga-bop-a-dop
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