Will These Seatbelts Work
Will These Seatbelts Work
Sorry if it seems like a dumb question.
I installed 5 point harness' in my 86, and quite frankly they are getting annoying as hell. I decided to put in the original seats (taking out my racing seats), so I no longer have the new seat belts installed correctly and need just standard ones.
Someone stole my original seat belts from my garage so I can't just go put those back in.
I found these, http://www.seatbeltsplus.com/product/CH256P.html
Will those work fine for my car? I have to cut holes into my new carpet and just re-did the roof of the interior. I don't have any of the bolts or anything as my five point harness' came with their own.
I was looking around and other seat belts "made for my car" cost around 250 dollars, I don't want to spend that much. I was looking for under 100..... if anyone can help.
I really don't care a lot about the "quality" of the seatbelts as long as they do their job for a short while (maybe a year) and it stops cops from constantly pulling me over for not wearing one.
I installed 5 point harness' in my 86, and quite frankly they are getting annoying as hell. I decided to put in the original seats (taking out my racing seats), so I no longer have the new seat belts installed correctly and need just standard ones.
Someone stole my original seat belts from my garage so I can't just go put those back in.
I found these, http://www.seatbeltsplus.com/product/CH256P.html
Will those work fine for my car? I have to cut holes into my new carpet and just re-did the roof of the interior. I don't have any of the bolts or anything as my five point harness' came with their own.
I was looking around and other seat belts "made for my car" cost around 250 dollars, I don't want to spend that much. I was looking for under 100..... if anyone can help.
I really don't care a lot about the "quality" of the seatbelts as long as they do their job for a short while (maybe a year) and it stops cops from constantly pulling me over for not wearing one.
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Axle/Gears: 4.10 10 bolt, 2.73 10 bolts
Re: Will These Seatbelts Work
We've had plenty of the aftermarket Ford style seatbelts (like the one in your link) in older Corvettes here at work. They fit and function fine other than the fact that they look just dead wrong in a GM car. Also since they don't retract and I only weigh about 140, I find them to be wayyy too long, to the point where I'm tossing 3-4 ft of unneeded seatbelt slack off to the side when using them.
I'd recommend just getting some used ones at a JY...shouldn't cost you more than $100 for an entire set of 4, and they'll look right and fit with no modifications.
I'd recommend just getting some used ones at a JY...shouldn't cost you more than $100 for an entire set of 4, and they'll look right and fit with no modifications.
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Car: 84 Z-28
Engine: 305 HO
Transmission: r-700
Axle/Gears: 3:73
Re: Will These Seatbelts Work
I got a perfect set of the recievers and plastic sleeves out of a 76 olds cutlass.
They replaced my z-28s female recievers with the broken red release button and
broken plastic sleeves perfectly!
Even tho the buckle is the old style metal/chrome with the fisher body coach release
button on the face they work with the existing stock male shoulder/seat belt perfectly!
They were the same length as the camaros recievers also.

Cost.................FREE !!!!!!
My bud was scraping a 76 cutlass and I tried them out!
I can only assume from my experience that almost any late 70s early 80s
GM car recievers should work on our 80s camaro/birds................
They replaced my z-28s female recievers with the broken red release button and
broken plastic sleeves perfectly!
Even tho the buckle is the old style metal/chrome with the fisher body coach release
button on the face they work with the existing stock male shoulder/seat belt perfectly!
They were the same length as the camaros recievers also.

Cost.................FREE !!!!!!
My bud was scraping a 76 cutlass and I tried them out!
I can only assume from my experience that almost any late 70s early 80s
GM car recievers should work on our 80s camaro/birds................
Last edited by sonjaab; Apr 29, 2013 at 07:21 PM.
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Car: '02 T/A WS6, '91 T/A, '91 Camaro RS
Engine: LS1, LB9, L03
Transmission: T56, 700R4, 700R4
Axle/Gears: 4.10 10 bolt, 2.73 10 bolts
Re: Will These Seatbelts Work
Technically, any seatbelts out of any car would work as long as they're long enough and you've got both the seatbelts and receivers. Be careful if you're trying to match up belts to existing receivers though, all 70s GM cars are going to have the larger style, all metal buckles, and I assume they are not interchangeable with our 83-up plastic ones. Also note that all G-Bodies still used the larger style buckles until they went FWD, and all B-Bodies still used them through 1989 (1990 federal legislation required either a driver airbag or automatic seatbelts, hence the change in seatbelt style in 1990 model year B-Bodies as apparently it was cheaper than adding an airbag).
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