Quote:
Originally Posted by toddlwitte
i have a 1988 930 cab and 3.5 yr old twin boys.
we made a lot of trips back n forth to Target, wal mart, etc. we settled on Graco comfort sport seats. I un bolted the porsche rear seat belts and bought generic seat belts from Mcmaster carr. cut the straps off, as all i wanted was the metal anchor plates. used teh fact porsche bolt and bolted the metal plate from mcmaster carr back into the rear of teh prosche. then i used the quik latch system that came with the car seats. I decided to snake the tether behind the rear upright porsche seat and then fastened it to teh bottom of the car seat. it was very secure.
At present i am working on a 4 pt racing harness that kids use in the go cart racing sport, with teh seats as confining as tehy are in teh back and with a 4 pt harness, i don't think the little twinkies will be going anywhere. Obviously we will be using the belts less the quik release center button..LOL
|
your post about running the latch belt behind the seat gave me an idea about what to do about the top tether. does anyone know what the seat backs are made out of (under the carpet)? I am thinking it is wood. If so, I could use wood screws and fasten an anchor (something like a latch anchor) to the seat back. Then I could fasten the top tether to it. Most likely it would be at the very top of the seat (in back) and the tether would be only a few inches from the seat to the anchor point -- but better than nothing..? This would be a pretty quick and dirty mod that seems like it might work.
Edit: Just got done installing it (see pics). I already had previously replaced the stock belts with the racing eyebolts. Now I am running all LATCH straps at 3 attachments points. The anchor for the top tether seemed more secure farther down on the seat than at the top. Because the seat is not "fixed", it isn't the most secure thing in the world, but it is a little better than nothing. If you have a cordless drill it takes all of 10 seconds and the part is like $2.50 each (utility pull). It would be much more solid affixed to the car frame at the base of the backrest, but I didn't want to take a chance drilling into the metal and not knowing what was behind the metal... In any case it probably does close to the same thing as running it through the back and attaching it to the base of the seat.
