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Originally Posted by blueosprey90
Thanks,
Mine look a little bigger and for some reason, both sides are distorted out. I thought maybe something to lift the body.
I want to try to fit inertia 3 point seat belts, and I need something with some meat in that area.
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I don't think they're intended as lifting points. Even with everything stripped out the weight of the body is a bit much for a non reinforced hole in 1mm thick steel sheet.
{I estimate the body weight to be under 150kg when everything has been removed but unfortunately I have no way of checking this}
As you know I have been following your thread - I am aware of your seat belt desire - but I'm not sure of the existing mounts you have in your PV. I assume my car had a factory three point fixing system fitted. I assume that when inertia reels were fitted to the lower part of the B pillar some one cut into the hollow box section under the rear seat so the rear seat passengers didn't have to trip over the reels.
You can see in the picture that I've added in little bits of bent steel to close off the box section and make it a bit more rigid.
I'm sure I've mentioned already that I'm not 100% happy with the way this has been done on my car - all I've done to the current set up is to try and tidy things up a bit.
I think I remember saying if there are no factory fixings on your car then I reckon you're better off getting advice from a classic car company that specialises in fitting seat belts. If not then you need to investigate the strength of rivnuts / nutserts and beefing up the structure to suit => As you can see from the holes in your sills thin metal can be bent easily - you have to fix things to strong things (!)