i searched through the pages and can't seem to get the right answer.

I just picked up a CRX that has the Door mounted belts. Currently i own a CRX that has pillar mounted belts and i was wondering if . .

1. The Doors can be swapped onto my car
2. Will the seat rails bolt up
3. Can i make the Door Mounted belts work with my pillar mount car.(ie: wires and w/e else)

Thanks H-T

 

Short answers:

1. No.
2. No.
3. No.

Long answers:

1. The actual body of the car is different. Pillar-belt doors can be swapped onto a door-belt chassis, but not vice versa.
2. Seat pans are different; you have to swap the entire pan.
3. Seat belts don't require wires to function. They do, however, require the ability to actually mount them onto the car.

For the life of me I couldn't imagine why anyone would want the door-mounted seat belts over the pillar-mounted belts. They were an engineering hackjob, resorted to for the purpose of cheating the pending US federal passive restraint regulations at the time. Thankfully, they're not as much of a PITA as the motorized mouse belts that ruined all '90-91 sedans and wagons and DA Integras.

 

nope you cant the 88 pillar mount belts have a differently designed door they dont fit into the groove of the 90 body because of female to male and vice versa. i wouldnt imagine swapping them out if you already have doors. just keep it as. they shouldve never made a big difference in the crxs between 2nd generation of model. the doors cant be swapped, the freakin window regulators wont freakin swap, the stupid seats are different the tail lights are as whack as everything else, the dash and cluster are just damn. why so much differences?

 

now THAT is how you reply to a post, thanks guys!

 

there was a write up of somebody actually doing a 88 door swap into a 90-91 civic. i think it was a hatch.

Really well detailed but not for the faint of heart.

It required cutting on the outside quarter panel etc.

If you just replace the 88 doors into a 91 body. There is a great deal of wind noise due to door alignment with the body.

https://honda-tech.com/forums/honda-crx-ef-civic-1988-1991-3/crx-seat-belt-conversion-write-up-door-pillar-1456104/

 

btw most of the jdm crx are pillar mounted as i have researched. so that means that youll be easily able to exchange jdm parts to your crx

 

All of the JDM CRXen have pillar mounted seat belts. Every CRX sold outside of the United States had the pillar belts, including the Canadian market. Only the USDM '89-91 CRX (sans '89 HF) had door-mounted seat belts.

 

If anyone wants to sell me all the crap required for the pillar mount belts, I'd greatly appreciate it.