Sponsored
Schroth Quick Fit Pro 4 Point Harness
- Thread starter firestarter2
- Start date
- Watchers 14
17SHLB350
Well-Known Member
- Joined
- Feb 23, 2017
- Threads
- 4
- Messages
- 58
- Reaction score
- 17
- Location
- Norfolk, VA
- Vehicle(s)
- 2017 Shelby GT350
Im about to order mine also. Already have rear seats removed. Thinking of cutting out slits/holes on seat delete (on order) for the harness to pass through.
Tomster
Beware of idiots
The seat delete will come out easy. 3 Torx bolts and out it comes. The seat delete is a $7-800 item. I'm going to plan on just removing the seat delete for track days
17SHLB350
Well-Known Member
- Joined
- Feb 23, 2017
- Threads
- 4
- Messages
- 58
- Reaction score
- 17
- Location
- Norfolk, VA
- Vehicle(s)
- 2017 Shelby GT350
shelbyman
Well-Known Member
- Joined
- May 6, 2015
- Threads
- 9
- Messages
- 348
- Reaction score
- 92
- Location
- Huntington Beach, Ca.
- First Name
- Sandy
- Vehicle(s)
- 2016 GT 350 Track Package White w/blue stripes
Ok I have installed the Schroth Quik Fit belts in my 350 Track Pack. I had taken out the Recaros and installed some cloth buckets out of a 2015 GT that I got from a dismantler. So I had the head rests to deal with instead of the holes in the Recaros. I found the headrest to pose a problem with hitting my helmet when on the track...was a total PIA. Will get to that solution in just a bit.
Back to the installation. It was fairly straight forward until you get to the installation of the left side lap belt. To say that was fiddly in Edd China's words was a gross understatement.:lol: You have to partially pull back a plastic trim piece and undo one or two bolts and then insert the belt attachment etc. Anyway that took some time and cutting of the trip piece. Once that was all attached routing of the belts etc was pretty easy. I have used them on the track twice now and they are pretty good. Well worth the kinda high cost involved. A submarine belt would be nice to have...almost impossible to do with power bucket seats.
What I found with the headrests on the bucket seats is that I couldn't get them out of the way far enough so they kept banging my helmet which is sooo totally annoying,
that I wanted to take them out of my car and run them over a few times...:frusty: But I ended up just taking them out of the car and that was a huge improvement :hail: but I really wanted to have some kind of headrest back there. Soooo ok what to do about it. :shrug:
Well when I got home I set about trying to come up with something simple that would do the job for me. What I ended up with is in the pics I've included. Simple stainless tubing same size as the headrest tubing..a plate welded on and covered with some leather and foam. I think it came out very nice and is a clean install for track days.
Rather than remove the belts I just leave them stored on the floor in back of the drivers seat. Now one more point in using them...I believe the instruction mentions putting them on with the seat slid back a bit and thats the way to do it. Then once the belts are kinda snug slide the seat forward until the belts are tight. You just can't pull them as tight as you need them...in my opinion. Anyway this was my solution to a problem I had...but they do work well. Good luck with yours.:cheers:
Back to the installation. It was fairly straight forward until you get to the installation of the left side lap belt. To say that was fiddly in Edd China's words was a gross understatement.:lol: You have to partially pull back a plastic trim piece and undo one or two bolts and then insert the belt attachment etc. Anyway that took some time and cutting of the trip piece. Once that was all attached routing of the belts etc was pretty easy. I have used them on the track twice now and they are pretty good. Well worth the kinda high cost involved. A submarine belt would be nice to have...almost impossible to do with power bucket seats.
What I found with the headrests on the bucket seats is that I couldn't get them out of the way far enough so they kept banging my helmet which is sooo totally annoying,
that I wanted to take them out of my car and run them over a few times...:frusty: But I ended up just taking them out of the car and that was a huge improvement :hail: but I really wanted to have some kind of headrest back there. Soooo ok what to do about it. :shrug:Well when I got home I set about trying to come up with something simple that would do the job for me. What I ended up with is in the pics I've included. Simple stainless tubing same size as the headrest tubing..a plate welded on and covered with some leather and foam. I think it came out very nice and is a clean install for track days.
Rather than remove the belts I just leave them stored on the floor in back of the drivers seat. Now one more point in using them...I believe the instruction mentions putting them on with the seat slid back a bit and thats the way to do it. Then once the belts are kinda snug slide the seat forward until the belts are tight. You just can't pull them as tight as you need them...in my opinion. Anyway this was my solution to a problem I had...but they do work well. Good luck with yours.:cheers:
Sponsored
The Chairman
Well-Known Member
I have the Recaros in my GT350. So no issue there. But the seats in my GT500KR have a headrest that can get in the way when wearing a helmet. I just remove the headrest and turn in backwards.
I presume this can be done in a GT350?
Minn19
Well-Known Member
I got mine in today. Just a heads up, you need to trim some of the rear interior panel for the driver male receptacle to work correctly. Not a big a deal and took about an hour taking my time.
