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I'm installing 3-point seat belts in my Lotus 7 replica, and need to have any input on how high the shoulder belt anchorage should be above the floor or seat. I'm seeing around 35 inches for production vehicles, so I need recommendations for putting a 1/2" bolt through 1 1/2" roll bar tubing without kinking, crushing, or weakening the roll bar integrity.

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For reference, with the DOT 3 point belts in a Caterham , the shoulder anchorage was installed at the base of the roll bar on the chassis.  Photo below - ignore the race harness, the DOT belt is the one right next to the roll bar base and tonneau.  This may be high enough for a shoulder as that rear firewall part of the Caterham chassis frame is high enough relative to shoulder height once seated.  

 

 

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If that positioning is ruled out in your car because it is not high enough, then back to your question of drilling the tube, I have always seen the hole sleeved with a metal spacer with the bolt running through the inside of the spacer so that it takes the compression weight rather than the hollow roll bar tube.  

 

 

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