68' Valiant 4 door
finally got the new drivers seat mounted and Schroth harness installed. as much as i love the material Darter6 used on the seats, trying to go around a corner at over 10 mph without sliding out was rough :lol:.
Summit has decent reclining ones at a good price and they're pretty comfortable. in keeping with my plan of mostly a street car i can take to the track i wanted to add a harness that won't be in the way of someone using the back seat. same reason i didn't want to add a traditional harness bar. crazy maybe, but i decided to anchor the whole thing in the trunk. 2" tubing under the package shelf tied into the upper shock mounts. hopefully i'll never find out how good or bad of an idea this is :rolleyes:
the other thing i managed to finish was tying in the front upper shock mounts to the frame rails. i'd talked to @HemiDenny about using his HDK upper shock mounts from the coil over conversion kit. he didn't flat tell me i was an idiot, and since the car was painted just a couple years ago, i was looking for something that didn't need welding, so that left out J-bars and and US cartool brackets. these HDK brackets are stout and they fit perfect :thumbsup: i did remove the part where the coilover attaches to make sure there was enough clearance with the suspension at full compression, but for what i'm using them for, it shouldn't make any difference.
finally got the new drivers seat mounted and Schroth harness installed. as much as i love the material Darter6 used on the seats, trying to go around a corner at over 10 mph without sliding out was rough :lol:.
Summit has decent reclining ones at a good price and they're pretty comfortable. in keeping with my plan of mostly a street car i can take to the track i wanted to add a harness that won't be in the way of someone using the back seat. same reason i didn't want to add a traditional harness bar. crazy maybe, but i decided to anchor the whole thing in the trunk. 2" tubing under the package shelf tied into the upper shock mounts. hopefully i'll never find out how good or bad of an idea this is :rolleyes:
the other thing i managed to finish was tying in the front upper shock mounts to the frame rails. i'd talked to @HemiDenny about using his HDK upper shock mounts from the coil over conversion kit. he didn't flat tell me i was an idiot, and since the car was painted just a couple years ago, i was looking for something that didn't need welding, so that left out J-bars and and US cartool brackets. these HDK brackets are stout and they fit perfect :thumbsup: i did remove the part where the coilover attaches to make sure there was enough clearance with the suspension at full compression, but for what i'm using them for, it shouldn't make any difference.