S14 seatbelt install & new speaker location in 89 hatch- lots of pics

[splintercell]

I just wanted people to know that this was a pretty easy install. i made my own bracket to mount seatbelt pulley apparatus. i dont have access to welder, but this is super strong. i used 5/16 grade 8 bolts with lock nuts to hold it to the metal. everything else just bolted up. when you make the hole in the plastic trim at the top just use a white paint marker and color the bolt head and screw it in just enough so it touches the interior part of the plastic. then use a unibit and drill proper hole size which happens to be 7/16 fine thread. i thought it would have been metric too. Where the seatbelt runs behind the panel, you need too use a dremel to notch out the plastic so the seatbelt does not get hung up. it took me 3 times, but i finally got it. Snap the panels back in and make sure the seatbelt pulls freely.

SAY GOODBYE TO 4X6"

for the speakers i used powerbass extreme, because ive installed them in hundreds of cars and they have never let me down yet. they are the top of the line model # 3XL652. they are 3ohm which allows more efficient use of the amplifier. the midbass on these are superb. anyway, i dynamatted all the interior panels and made the template out of 1/8" masonite. then i found some 4" speaker grills and covered them in some speaker grill cloth and mounted them. 4" grills are the only thing that fits within the contours of the panel too. i tried out all of them. i just tell everyone thats just a 4" producing the bass : : PLUS it also looks factory


Modified by splintercell at 4:53 PM 1/18/2008

[fayceoff]

Nice. I put a set of RF 8" subs in the spots there on my car, but I took them out later and built a box. I like your set-up. Your install looks very professional. Here's a link to a picture of mine if you care to see.http://f7.yahoofs.com/users/ke...r_sub

As for the seat belt swap, it's great, and I know it was a hell of a lot cheaper than a Silvia/180SX JDM/Canadian swap, but isn't there anything you can cover the seatbelt pivot point (I don't know what you would really call it) with to cover the bolt and the slight rust? Or maybe you could just paint it?

Again, great work.

[splintercell]

Thanks man, unfortunately your link dont work. I was thinking about doing 8" but i did no feel like making a fiberglass enclosure. those 6.5" produce some nasty mids in that enclosure. As far as the pivot bolt goes im trying to source some black bolt caps from one of my sources at the hardware store i manage. if i find something ill let you know. I only paid 45 dollars for the s14 manual seatbelts from somebody here on NICO.

get the link fixed i want to see your setup,

[fayceoff]

edit: There you go. Also, when I first got my car, I bought a set of 300Z seatbelts off ebay for $28 shipped and I was going to install them in my car, but then I found a manual swap with all the trim parts except the psgr a-pillar for a steal, so I went with that instead. The 300Z belts have that pivot piece in ABS. Try finding some of those. Just make sure they include the female part (the part that attaches to the seat), because they won't fit ours otherwise.


Modified by fayceoff at 1:07 PM 4/6/2007

[splintercell]

that template is nice, do you still have a copy? how did the 8" sound? makes me want to rethink my install. im all about a hidden system, but sounding sweet. ive installed a lot of subwoofers in customers cars and i am not for big systems anymore. i guess i grew up.

[fayceoff]

The eights were pretty good (I'm 33, and I was living in military housing, so I wasn't about the window-rattling bass). It's just that since I'm not a pro, I didn't want to cut holes in my interior panels, so they sounded a little muffled. With a speaker grill, they would've been excellent. I do have a copy of my template, but unfortunately, I'm in the Middle East and my car stuff is all at my house in the States. All I did was trace that piece of plastic that covers the hole and then add 3 screw tabs. I made it out of fiberboard first, and when I was happy with the fitment, I traced it onto a piece of Plexi I 'found' and cut it out with my jigsaw.

[splintercell]

im going to go look in the trash now and find my plastic sheet. I might decide to relocate the 6.5" back to where the 4x6" were located. It will take a litlle modifying, but nothing the air body saw cant handle

[fayceoff]

I widened my hole with a dremel. I don't even want to think about how long it took and how many cutting/grinding wheels I went through... You should be able to know it out much faster with an air saw. Good luck. Post pics.

[hai1206vn]

When I tried this the bolt seems a bit too short to reach the frame hole. Did you use the stock bolt and just tighten against the plastic trim?

[splintercell]

i got a longer bolt and used a spacer on the backside of panel.

[Artem215]

Very nice work.

[hai1206vn]

i got a longer bolt and used a spacer on the backside of panel.

i tried this and it seemed to work at first, but then i realized that the metal loop cannot rotate because my longer bolt doesn't have a collar where the loop rotates on. how did you solve this?

[fayceoff]

Bore out the hole on the loop and get a shoulder bolt...?

[musashin]

HOLY GIANT SIG, BATMAN!

[DougRoost]

I need to do this S14 seat belt conversion on our car and the pictures are no longer there -- right clicking points me to a dead photobucket link. It's killing me afer all the grea comments on the good pix. Anyone have pix, or can the originals be reposted?

[splintercell]

ill reload them, ive been away for awhile. i redid some things in photobucket and moved the pics in different folders. ill load tonite.

[DougRoost]

Thanks!

[splintercell]

they are back up, no prob