09-27-2005, 08:54 AM
Hunter Wrote:I dont think I really understand where 4-pt harnesses are mounted. Are the two sides of the lap belt fastened higher that where the lap belt on a stock belt is mounted? Because I've heard a lot of "submarine" warnings for the 4 pt. harnesses.
If its really that much safer to do seats at the same time I might be able to do it and just hope I dont break anything on the car for a few months. I just feel like seats are to bling for me, I'm not that high class.
The lap belt mounts in the same place as the stock lap belt would. The shoulder mounts on MOST 4pts are very long and people end up mounting them to the seat belt mounts in the back seat, or draping them straight down behind the seat and bolting them to the seat mount bolts. BOTH are very bad. Also, in a crash you continue forward, belts get tight and the lap belt is pulled up by the shoulder belt causing it to rest somewhere south of your ribcage (maybe a little higher taking a few ribs out), this also causes some of your lower innards to take quite an impact. A sub belt or 5th and 6th point prevents this from happening. I use to run a 4pt in autocross, but NEVER on a road course.