Max:
I was interested to hear that someone was using structural adhesives to glue
new floors into his MGB. Which made me think (I know, scary). Why not glue
the seat belt mounting reinforcement plate into the wheel well of the early
car.
If you get a chance, take a look at a 73- MGB rear inner wheel well. There
is a welded nut plate (about 3" diam) for the seat belt bolt (or on later
cars mounting plate bolt). That area of the shell is very strong, and even
an unglued backing plate is unlikely to be ripped through. Gluing the plate
to the sheet metal would reduce the possible tendency for the plate to cut
into the metal under load (though I think you would have been cut in half by
the belts first).
Just a thought.
Kelvin.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Max Heim [mailto:mvheim@attbi.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 12:31 PM
> To: MG List
> Subject: Re: Rubber Bumper B
>
>
> Very good points, Kelvin.
>
> On the subject of seat belts, I was wondering if anyone could
> testify to a
> successful retrofit of 3-point belts to a Mk. I roadster,
> without going to
> modern seats or adding a roll bar.
>
> When I was looking into this issue, it was strongly suggested
> to me that the
> rear deck belt mount (as used in say, 1969) was
> unsatisfactory in use and
> potentially hazardous, even with highback seats (it seems
> pretty obvious
> that it would be a bad idea with non-locking, lowback seats and no
> headrests). This had seemed like the simplest and most
> visually "correct"
> approach. I am not familiar with where the later cars anchor
> the shoulder
> belts. Suggestions or comments?
>
> The alternative, consisting of "not getting into any
> collisions", has worked
> OK for 15 years, but of course this is no guarantee of future
> results (as
> the stock prospectuses put it).
>
>
> (or is that "prospecti"...?)
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