JBaby, in an accident your body goes wherever it can. In a four-point, that ends up begin down. Think about it: You go forward, the belts pull and slide up, and you start sliding down. In an unrestricted accident, you go straight forward. You hit the steering wheel and bounce up, or your feet hit the floorboard and you bounce up. The windshield just happens to be the softest point in the car, so you through it instead of backwards again.
BMX, the answer is probably not. The brackets are thick gauge steel and welded on very well. You need to brace the floor pan where the brackets are going, and then find a way to cut off the old brackets and mount them to the floor. That will be the hardest part. If you can get that far, putting the seats in shouldn't be a problem. The other thing is that you have to get the new seats to end up being about as tall as the old seats, otherwise the seatbelts will not protect as they were designed to (possibly causing more harm than good). A friend who can weld isn't enough. You need someone who knows exactly what they are doing to redesign your floor and figure out how to mount seats that aren't designed to fit there. Again this is not something to screw around with. And again, if you get this done and someone is hurt in your seats, you become liable. It may look cool, but not worth the hassle in my opinion.
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