Tuesday, 16 April 2013

Seat Fitting

Set out to fit the seats, decided to mount them in a fixed position and not to use the runners provided, the main reason was that I wanted to have the seats as low as possible and also the to have the same height for both.

For fixings, I bought some rubber anti vibration mounts from eBay which seem to be ideal. I made a template from the underside of the seat to provide accurate hole spacing. In positioning the seat, what became apparent was that there is a chassis rail that fouls where I planned to mount the seat. I drilled a hole alongside and then modified one of the mounts to fit. Drilled a full set of holes at 12mm and then bolted the seat in place.









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  1. ElmrPhD11 February 2016 at 20:51

    Dunno about IVA and such, but race tech inspectors have failed such mounts for shearing in high-impact crashes. Any thoughts on that?

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    1. Eddie12 February 2016 at 16:30

      Good point. IVA was fine, however have now removed them and replaced with Tillett seats and runners bolted to the chassis rails.

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  2. ElmrPhD15 February 2016 at 18:50

    Glad to know. I set my driver's seat into the car for the first time and find that although I'm just under 6 feet tall, I have to pull the seat as far forward as possible to reach the pedals properly. With my no-name seats, that means the seat base contacts the bottom of the roll cage. Is 6 ft really that short? Granted, I am by no means lanky. I measured 20 cm from the seatback to the rear cross bar where the shoulder harness straps attach. All the pix I find are of taller people than me, I guess...

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    1. Eddie22 February 2016 at 09:16

      My chassis is slightly different, I had my driver footwell shortened by 6 inches to allow a full size pedal box to be fitted. Really didn't like the standard MNR pedals and wanted to get a OBP race setup.

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