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BoostIt's project DD - 1982 244tic

I dig it. I considered a roll bar, so I could run 5 point belt. Regular seat belts are not all that safe really.

But I changed my mind due to roll bar weight and wanted to keep backseat...for now. I might remove the back seat if I can figure a way to close it in/rear seat delete it, and not pick up all the noise. The rear seat is quite the sound dampener I have the rear seat delete I made & had in the 80 242. I might could try it. But it'd be noisy. IMO Dynamat would have to be used & that' just more weight
 
i DEFINITELY know what you mean. my car is a ton louder inside without the back seat in there. but i can't carry any kind of weight or people in the back anyways or i scrape my exhaust on every little bump in the road. i had me driving, my buddy riding shotgun, and 2 girls in the back who both weighed less than 120 pounds each and i was scraping pretty bad. so i figured if i can't even carry a girl back there what's the point so i took the seats out lol. i'm going to paint it all black eventually to make it look a little nicer. white metal jumps out at you
 
Maybe you need to re-make your exhaust system? Mine doesn't scrape at all & my 240 is lowered 1 3/4"
 
smokeyfan1000 said:
Maybe you need to re-make your exhaust system? Mine doesn't scrape at all & my 240 is lowered 1 3/4"
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i also have a 3" system with a huge muffler right in the middle that my dad and i did in our driveway. the side exit doesn't help. and the fact that the shocks are pretty much worn out doesn't help. mine is lowered quite a bit more than 1 3/4". a low-profile floor jack barely gets under the crossmember
 
How low is it? 3"? Properly routed exhaust should not scrape even when lower than mine. Ought to fix that problem. Or give up having GFs:lol:
 
DNAsEqUeNcE said:
Youll have to show me how you made your seat brackets and installed your 5 points Matt.
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the seat came on some honda civic rails when i bought it and it had some 90* steel brackets that look homemade, we heated them up and hammered them flat and they bolted right up to the stock 240 slider after we removed all the junk with the levers and springs and contracting locking pins, and then my dad welded a piece of re-bar between the front and rear brackets to keep the seat from sliding forward or backward. it's rock solid man. i'll take pics of these brackets tomorrow in the car and try to give you approximate dimensions and such.

as for the belts, i unbolted the seat so it was easily put in/out and pulled the carpeting up, placed the lap belts where they needed to go, drew dots with a sharpie and drilled some holes. then i bolted the lap belts to the floor with high strength bolts and a thick washer on both sides of the metal.

as for the shoulder belts, i removed my back seats, removed the cardboard barrier between the seats and trunk, cut a piece of 1/4" thick angle iron to fit between the trunk shocks, clamped it in place against the "X" as high up as it would go, drilled through the sheet metal with a 1/8" drill bit so it put holes in the sheet metal where we later drilled out with a bigger bit and punching through the sheet metal made marks on the angle iron. then we drilled out the angle iron holes and the body holes, installed 4 heavy duty bolts, the 2 on the driver half of the car we also used to bolt the shoulder belts.

i'll take some pics and upload tomorrow for ya

Mike - granted an exhaust done perfectly *should* not scrape but you can't always control the road conditions and awkward angles of pull-ins for places or businesses and my dad and I are no experts at making exhausts although i'm extremely pleased with this one. And as for girlfriends, it's the single life for me :cool: i would say "4 doors more whores" but i don't have a back seat sooo...yeah hahaha. come on man, rip yours out, only takes 5 minutes and it saves weight :lol:
 
I took rear seat outta my 80 242. I "panned it in" with 1/8 marine plywood,used metal screws to attach the upper seat back to X bracing metal, and bolted the bottom of RSD down and covered all that with in/outdoor carpet, before installing it all. I also applied that grey felt padding(like in my trunk in my build thread) to the floor & upper RSD kit portion to insulate the noise.

Look very neat, and well done too. The buyer of the car wanted the rear seat back in, so I removed the "rear seat delete kit", and I still have it.

I never got to drive the 80 242 with the "rear seat delete kit" in it. So I do not know how noisy or how quiet it was while driving. Probably not too bad IMO, but do not know for sure.

No more than the OEM rear seat weighs, I'd venture to say I did not save any weight, & might have added a few lbs.
But it look nice and "racy".

Yep, I have thought about putting my "RSD Kit" in the 244, but since I have no where to SAFELY store the nice OEM seat right now( garage still a mess) I am hesitant to remove it.

It would make for a neat & easy place to carry large parts that I have to ship sometimes though.
 
Brett, here's the pics of the seat bracket and the harness installed:

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Here you can see how the one shoulder strap is using the bolt for the angle iron and the other 2 bolts to the left, you can see bolt #4 in the above pic:
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and here are the bolts for the lap belts:
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would say "4 doors more whores" but i don't have a back seat sooo...yeah hahaha. come on man, rip yours out, only takes 5 minutes and it saves weight
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But if ya pan it back in after ya take the seat, you save no weight. Actaully add more. I'll bet that piece of angle iron weighs close to or more than the seat did.:nod:
 
would say "4 doors more whores" but i don't have a back seat sooo...yeah hahaha. come on man, rip yours out, only takes 5 minutes and it saves weight
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But if ya pan it back in after ya take the seat out, you save no weight. Actaully add more. I'll bet that piece of angle iron weighs close to or more than the seat did.:nod:
 
who the **** uses angle iron for tin?

it's got the brace there, you either keep that or use aluminum to tin the rear in.
 
Matt said:
who the **** uses angle iron for tin?

it's got the brace there, you either keep that or use aluminum to tin the rear in.
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tin? the sheetmetal there isn't nearly strong enough on its own so it needs reinforcing and i don't have any aluminum laying around. this is strong and won't tear or break in an accident, it'll keep the shoulder belts where they should be. i don't know if you're trying to talk **** or not but if you are then please get out of my build thread. if not, then please be more clear.
 
BoostIt said:
tin? the sheetmetal there isn't nearly strong enough on its own so it needs reinforcing and i don't have any aluminum laying around. this is strong and won't tear or break in an accident, it'll keep the shoulder belts where they should be. i don't know if you're trying to talk **** or not but if you are then please get out of my build thread. if not, then please be more clear.
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i'm referring to using iron as a rear tin to separate the trunk from the passenger compartment.
 
who the **** uses angle iron for tin?

it's got the brace there, you either keep that or use aluminum to tin the rear in.
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I panned my 80 242 in with 1/8 marine plywood. Who said anything about using angle iron to pan it in? Can you read? Or just trolling like you did in my build thread?
 
Matt said:
i'm referring to using iron as a rear tin to separate the trunk from the passenger compartment.
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smokeyfan1000 said:
I panned my 80 242 in with 1/8 marine plywood. Who said anything about using angle iron to pan it in? Can you read? Or just trolling like you did in my build thread?
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obviously he can't read or even look at pictures. i used the angle iron as reinforcement for the sheetmetal so i could bolt in my harness dumbass. use your eyes and get out of my thread now please.
 
If I can give you an advice, change the thin washers you use to fix the end of your harness ( trunk side ), it'll never hold your weight in case of accident...

I think ( hope... ) you can find stronger one in every bolts store...
 
obviously he can't read or even look at pictures. i used the angle iron as reinforcement for the sheetmetal so i could bolt in my harness dumbass. use your eyes and get out of my thread now please.
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Matt enjoys trolling build threads BoostIt. He trolls mine too. I think he follows me around on TB. Sure seems like it.

Also, BoostIt, you should read up on how to install & what materials to use installing 5 point seat belts. There are physics involved, during an accident,, that will surprise you.In ,effect,how much your weight "increases' due to inertia during the rapid negative acceleration.

Please for your own safety, check into this , concerning the thickness of metal used for seat bracketry,the grade/size of fasteners used, the angle the belt ends rest on the retaining anchors, and the anchors themselves.

After all, the 5 point belt, is there to save your life. Just to be 100% sure you've done it right. IMO the seat's brackets are questionable in strength.
 
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