Replacing the front seats?

[DionM]

Rather than getting the old 2dr seats fixed and recovered (they're a bit tired), I'm thinking about fitting some proper bucket seats. Anyone gone down this road before? As the belt is built into the front seats of the Rangie I'm thinking that may be the one sticking point - what to do about belts for the front passengers?

[Strange Rover]

Ive seen seat belts being bolted through the B pillar so I guess it can be done. But you should really talk to an engineer cause this is something that you want to work really well.

Sam

[Rainbow Warrior]

I used Sigma bucket seats, I just had to use some 25mm angle roughly 350mm long with a square tag on one end and bolted the Sigma runners to the angle after bolting it to the Range Rover base.
I also then drilled a 32mm holesaw holes in the pillar and made up roughly 150x25x5mm plates with a hole and seatbelt nut welded to them, it was then welded to a piece of wire and poked up/down the hole till it reached the bolt holes I had drilled, I then put a bolt and some washers in them tightened them up and waited a day for the Sicaflex I had coated the face with to dry. I wriggled crap out of the coathanger then till it broke off, weeken the coathanger near the top with a few bends before sending it up there.
Apparently you just need a certain surface area of plate a certain thickness and you can put a seat belt mount nearly wherever you like as long as your engineer trusts you. I also used Sigma seatbelts cause I had them too, the inside belts mounted on the back of the transmission hump.

[DionM]

Ive seen seat belts being bolted through the B pillar so I guess it can be done. But you should really talk to an engineer cause this is something that you want to work really well.

Sam

Agreed. Not something I want to stuff with and get wrong, so will look into it before even going down that track.

[DionM]

I used Sigma bucket seats, I just had to use some 25mm angle roughly 350mm long with a square tag on one end and bolted the Sigma runners to the angle after bolting it to the Range Rover base.
I also then drilled a 32mm holesaw holes in the pillar and made up roughly 150x25x5mm plates with a hole and seatbelt nut welded to them, it was then welded to a piece of wire and poked up/down the hole till it reached the bolt holes I had drilled, I then put a bolt and some washers in them tightened them up and waited a day for the Sicaflex I had coated the face with to dry. I wriggled crap out of the coathanger then till it broke off, weeken the coathanger near the top with a few bends before sending it up there.
Apparently you just need a certain surface area of plate a certain thickness and you can put a seat belt mount nearly wherever you like as long as your engineer trusts you. I also used Sigma seatbelts cause I had them too, the inside belts mounted on the back of the transmission hump.

Thanks for that - I'll look into it but it is starting to sound like a problem in terms of getting it certified etc.

BTW, is this the same Rainbow Warrior from aus.cars many years ago?

[Rainbow Warrior]

I used Sigma bucket seats, I just had to use some 25mm angle roughly 350mm long with a square tag on one end and bolted the Sigma runners to the angle after bolting it to the Range Rover base.
I also then drilled a 32mm holesaw holes in the pillar and made up roughly 150x25x5mm plates with a hole and seatbelt nut welded to them, it was then welded to a piece of wire and poked up/down the hole till it reached the bolt holes I had drilled, I then put a bolt and some washers in them tightened them up and waited a day for the Sicaflex I had coated the face with to dry. I wriggled crap out of the coathanger then till it broke off, weeken the coathanger near the top with a few bends before sending it up there.
Apparently you just need a certain surface area of plate a certain thickness and you can put a seat belt mount nearly wherever you like as long as your engineer trusts you. I also used Sigma seatbelts cause I had them too, the inside belts mounted on the back of the transmission hump.

Thanks for that - I'll look into it but it is starting to sound like a problem in terms of getting it certified etc.

BTW, is this the same Rainbow Warrior from aus.cars many years ago?

Pretty much so, though a pshyco test could prove otherwise