Re: seat belt routing 21-23 series

Posted by BigKev On 2015/5/12 12:50:37

In Calif, you are only required to have seatbelts if the car was originally equipped with them. So just like smog rules, our Packards are exempt.

For a lap belt, there are multiple ways to do it.

No matter what, you may want to consider using stronger bolts where the seat attaches to the floor and under-structure and use hardened steel washers or steel plate under the beneath the under-structure to prevent the bolts from pulling through the floor in an impact.

I'm not 100% confident that the Packard seat adjusted mech would hold in a serious impact. So the potential of the seat at least sliding forward on it's track is possible. If the belt was attached to a fixed point (floor, etc) then you become the absorber between the belt and the seat if the seat adjuster mech fail and the seat slides forward in a crash. Not sure how realistic or not this concern can be, but something to think about. But then again, that is how most modern cars are also. With the belt not fixed to the seat. But modern seats I would imagine have much stricter rules as far as design and how they perform in crash.

Just some things to think about.