Been there, Done that. The Rat Runner equipment is removed along with the secondary side carpet pieces. You use the rear anchor bolt holes for the rat runner to install the pull over side of the 3 point set. There are 3 point anchor threaded holes on the sides of the tunnel, not used on the 88 and neatly plugged with plastic plugs. Just remove the plugs, make a hole in the tunnel carpet, and you are ready to bolt in the latch sides of the 3 pointers. How thoughtful of Alfa to provide these plugged anchor holes. But they unthoughtfully did NOT provide holes to install the inertial reels behind the seats. That you have to do yourself. And your rear carpet shelf is not inertial reel freindly. I got around this by buying a good used rear shelf carpet out of a Spider which DID have the inertial reels. This also got rid of the section in the center of the shelf carpet which allows the rat rail shoulder belts to exit from under the shelf carpet. I removed that heavy homemade looking poorly welded anchor in the center of the chassis under the carpet shelf where the center shoulder belts were anchored. I left the electronic control boxes in place because I had no idea what odd kinds of problems might occur if I removed them, since they are hard wired into at least part of the wiring harness. I solved the problem of the 2 red seat belt warning lights in the instrument pod by just removing the bulbs.
On editing this I realized I neglected to address the belt guide on the seat back issue. You will have to switch seat backs to get the belt guides on the outside vic the inside, of the seat backs. The top will still raise and lower if you do this. I went the direction of replacing the seats entirely, but this was because of the poor covers I had, not the guide issue. I relaced the seats with a set out of an 86 and thus solved the guide issue at the same time as the cover issue.
All this on a 1988 Veloce which eventually went by the by. I replaced the 88 Veloce with an 88 Quad, which for some reason, and joyfully, came with the 3 point seat belt system. Go figure. You have to love Alfas, otherwise all this would make you hate them.
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Robert Hill in Memphjis, TN
1959 1300 Spider, long gone
1988 S3 black Veloce now being resurrected in Chattanooga Tn
1988 S3 red Quad - definately the best of the lot