Hello everyone,

Just wondering if there are any tc owners who have installed non oem racing seats and racing harnesses on their car. While the stocks seats are nice, they aren't really made for after market harnesses, which are nice for track days and autox.

Would also be interested to hear how people got around the airbag sensors and seatbelt chime.

Thanks in advance! Tried searching but couldn't really find any concrete answers.

 

took all the crap out of the seats and mounted it all up underneath. custom brackets....powell harness bar with stroud wrap arounds

 

I'm working on it in my 2.2

 

u forgot to mention the sexiest recaros u cant get anymore... yes.. jealous.. i searched everywhere for those discontinued beauties lol

 

thanks dude....they were discontinued wheni got htem....they were a return for shipping damage.....bought the replacement parts from recaro. the tweed was undamaged

 

corbeau makes cobalt seat brackets?

 

Those corbeaus look nice... Well done. I was thinking about something similar with sparcos.

 

corbeau is the only guys out that make brackets but they only work with their seats.

 

How did you solve the airbag weight sensor and seat belt chime?

 

How much did that set up cost you?

 

Thanks for the response! Could you elaborate on these two points? How did you go about removing the passenger presence? Did you take apart your new seat and install it inside? How difficult was that?

Also, I am not sure if I follow you correctly on the second part. So essentially you left the front seat belts in, you just hid them behind the interior trim? Again, could you elaborate?

Thanks again!

 

Fixed back seats without a roll bar is not a good idea.

 

Same could be said for a harness.

 

what if I just wanted to get a corbeau driver seat and used the stock seat belt, is the an airbag sensor or something I need to worry about?

 

No sensor for the drivers seat just the seatbelt one....only reason there's one on the ps seat is to switch the airbag on and off when there is and isn't a passenger so if you crash with no passenger the bag wont go off

 

Very interested to hear how you would transfer that sensor to a new seat.

 

which harness bar did u use from powell?

 

Nice seats!

 

^ the one he sells for cobalts lol

 

The seatbelts I had to weld a nt to my seat brackets so I could attach them. The weight sensor for the passenger side I took apart my recaros and put them in

 

The cobalt one he sells with a detachable center

 

How difficult was that? Were your original seats damaged at all? How hard would it be to put them back?

 

I have aftermarket seats....they aren't hard to take apart but if you have never done it have a professinal install the stuff. every seat is different though and has its own thing to take it apart

I don't see how anyone could damage the original seats. Was very simple. The belt buckles come out with a torx bit and the rest you just need to undo a few things.

 

Before anyone reading this thread decides to do something as horribly reckless as installing fixed seats and/or harnesses in a car without a rollbar, google a bit and learn how many guys have been KILLED at track days from doing something like this. Harnesses without a rollbar can kill you, the factory seatbelts in the car, as well as the seats, are designed so you have less of a chance of being crushed during the event of a rollover, they give your body somewhere to go. I won't even get into the guys running 4 pts. out there with no crotch strap. Your car is safer from the factory than having some silly harness bar in it (especially when it is mounted WAY too high).

I remember when I ran a Redline TT at BR back in '06, they made guys remove the harnesses from cars with no rollbars before they would even let them on the track.

 

That's why we said it