Race Seats

[Zlishous]

Need advice on race seats for my 260 to include: brackets and seat belts. I have narrowed my choices to Corbeau Forza (220.00) and a Sparco of similar design and price (220.00) Anyone with any other suggestions or experince with these seats? Also going with five point harness, where is the best location to bolt these down?

Thanks,

Zlish

[hmsports]

I have use a Corbeau Forza seat for the last three years and find it to be pretty comfortable. The only thing I have problems with is that I'm tall and the support at the front of the seat that bumps up hits me in the wrong spot. Other than that it holds you in pretty well even on the fast banks at Gateway.

For the belts, the two heavy eye bolts fit into the original holes in the floor where the stock seat belts bolt. The sub-marine or ball-buster needs to have a hole drilled in the floor. Make sure to use the backing plates for the bolt so it doesn't pull through the thin floor metal.

The shoulder belts are best attached to a horizontal bar behind the driver's shoulders. Make sure to follow the installation instructions VERY carefully as the angles for the lap belts and shoulder harness attachments are critical to help avoid spinal injuries.

Racer Wholesale has the guaranteed lowest prices on harnesses. I have used the latch type and moved up to the twist-lock style. The latch type are difficult to get all five held in place and them latch them in. The twist lock is much easier -- you can click each belt in one at a time.

Best of luck.

Rick

[Zlishous]

Rick, thanks, how did you put your seats in? Did the brackets pose any problems i should know about?

Thanks, Paul

[hmsports]

I didn't use the optional mounting kit. Since my car was gutted and I wanted to hard mount my seat, I simply took some heavy 1x3/8 bar stock and bolted two lengths to the seat bottom (front to back). I then took two 1" square tubes and welded them across the floor from the inside rocker to the transmission tunnel. I welded bolts to these square tubes with the threaded portion facing upward to bolt the bar stock on the seats to.

Hope that made sense.

Now, this is NOT the safest way to do it. What should be done is to use 1" round tube to create a cradle for the seat. This should all be welded to the cage. What this does during a wreck is to allow the seat to shift if the cage moves. By having things hooked to the floor, the seat could in essence be pulled out from below the car in an extremely violent wreck. Or in a less violent wreck, the cage would shift and the seat would not, which could crush the driver with the cage.