Stock rails won't fit on Sparco Sprint V

Black_Penguin · Postby **Black_Penguin** » Sat Sep 15, 2012 2:49 pm

The seat belt buckle bracket is stopping the rails fitting on my seat, am I doing something wrong or is there a step I'm am missing?

Edit: Car is a NB8A

emexv · Postby **emexv** » Sat Sep 15, 2012 8:21 pm

Yep... you have to cut that little bugger off.

Suspense · Postby **Suspense** » Sat Sep 15, 2012 11:28 pm

I got it to fit by filing down the inner side of the captive nuts on the side bracket. Takes a little fiddling but you can make it work.

Black_Penguin · Postby **Black_Penguin** » Sun Sep 16, 2012 3:13 am

Ok wasn't sure and wasn't about to attack it with an angle grinder without checking I was missing something simple.

Apu · Postby **Apu** » Sun Sep 16, 2012 5:48 am

I just bent it a little bit.

Black_Penguin · Postby **Black_Penguin** » Mon Sep 17, 2012 1:09 am

It's in, only took an angle grinder, vice, two large shifters, power drill, bench grinder, a temper tantrum and more swearing than I'd like to admit to.

timk · Postby **timk** » Mon Sep 17, 2012 6:44 am

NA rails and an NA seatbelt stalk attached to your left harness mounting point works well in an NB too!

deviant · Postby **deviant** » Mon Sep 17, 2012 12:26 pm

What is the total width of a Sprint V at that point? Something like 50cms?

I am looking at a different seat for my car but I want to keep the NB rails unmodified so need to fit within that seat belt bracket.

davekmoore · Postby **davekmoore** » Mon Dec 10, 2012 10:20 pm

timk wrote:NA rails and an NA seatbelt stalk attached to your left harness mounting point works well in an NB too!

Do all NA seatbelt stalks receive an NB seatbelt? If so, who would like to sell me a stalk to make swapping the Sprint for the road seat even easier?

davekmoore · Postby **davekmoore** » Wed Dec 12, 2012 12:10 pm

davekmoore wrote:
timk wrote:NA rails and an NA seatbelt stalk attached to your left harness mounting point works well in an NB too!

Do all NA seatbelt stalks receive an NB seatbelt? If so, who would like to sell me a stalk to make swapping the Sprint for the road seat even easier?

Strike that, I reckon I can fix the NB receiver directly to the tunnel so I can use the standard belt regardless of which seat is in.