would a seating and seatbelt arrangment like this pass sva. (pic of geoege80's car currently for sale)



as the holes in my seats are to high and dont line up hight wise see pic of my build below


graememkmay062

[Edited on 13/6/06 by graememk]

I dont think they will accept them wrapped around the seat.
Steve.

That car only recently passed SVA and i'm sure he has not changed anything on it since so you should be ok.

My tester made me take the belts out of the holes and put them around the seats in order to pass.

Cheers

Mark

Could have sworn someone had bother at SVA recently for that,
Oh well I will go and lie down for a bit.

couldn't you get some longer eye bolts and use spacers to raise the belts to the same height as the hole sin your seat??.

Ray

Mine passed SVA at Beverley with the Seat belts around the seats exactly as you have them now.

In fact I also asked the same question before my SVA too!

http://www.locostbuilders.co.uk/viewthread.php?tid=24672

I also used some inch high spacers on top of the MK welded seat belt mounts and got some longer unf bolts to make Mr SVA man even happier

Mark.

This is obviously different depending on the station you use. My car was rejected because the seats made the belts deviate - ever so slightly, they said this made the seat the anchorage point & it wasn't strong enough, I had to cut fresh holes thro the seats
The belt upper mounts look too low (they have to be 450mm above a reference point on the seat base cush if I remember correctly), if they are raised by the seat this becomes the anchorage point for the point of view of the test & the seat would need to be strong enough to withstand seat belt loads It sounds as tho some of you have found a user friendly tester. I wouldn't be inclined to lift the mounting point by use of spacers as you are the creating a pivoting moment around the mount.

You could always lower the floor

Seriously though, I had the opposite problem - my seats were too low (due to a lower seat pan to gain more headroom) and I had to cut new harness holes higher in the seat back to make the angles right.

As already mentioned, if the belt's angle is changed by the seat it becomes a stress bearing component and will fail sva.