Seat and Harness upgrade

Just thought I would share what I've done to get my car upgraded for track events. I thought about this long and hard, basically I'm walking the line between 'Hot street car' and 'Race Car on the Street'.

My car handles pretty well, and I've done a couple Auto-cross days and need to add some safety, and a little lateral support with the seats is a nice to have also.:)

I built a harness bar, to properly mount the shoulder strap, and upgraded to the Corbeau seats. Interestingly Corbeau makes seat brackets for AMC's! But be aware that of the four rear mounting locations, the outer two are not in the correct place. I simply needed to slot the holes so no huge problem.

Cheers.






Edited by 343sharpstick - May/06/2016 at 7:36pm

awesome! Doing the same on my car! did you bolt the bar in?  I have a roll bar hoop from rhodes race cars and i got the kit to make it into a bolt in.  Do you have any more pictures of your car with the 70 reverse c stripe? Is that a decal or painted on?

Beau

Badjav, I set this up like many of the harness bars you can buy for newer cars where it bolts to the factory seat belt locations. If I had a bare shel I would probably set up a more elegant option.

NeedafasrweAMX, If you just jump on the Corbeau website, you can find all the info you need easily.on the seat brackets, and available seat fabrics for the GTSII seats.

Thanks!
Badjav390, the stripe is a decal. Huge pain putting it on, ugh.
This car had a dealer installed Donohue package added in 1970, so when I restored it, I put it back the way it was most of its life
It also had side-pipes back then too.

When it worked, it did well. Last year I did have a host of mechanical issues with the flywheel loosing teeth, and a vibration in the transmission. Hope both of those issues are behind me now! I've only done Auto-cross so far, not been on the road course yet.

I just looked through some pictures and I can tell you It was on par with an AAR Cuda with aftermarket suspension. Faster than a few New-ish Mustangs, and 3rd/4th Gen Camaros. NOT faster than cars with aftermarket Chassis setups, but no surprise there.

From my last outing, I’ve went with a larger anti-sway bar, so that should help it corner a bit flatter, I also need to throw some additional camber on the front.