i need to weld up a mounting bracket to mount a seat to. im doint the usual "connect one side to rocker area/door sill and the other side to the exhaust tunnel." my question is what material should i use? obviously not aluminum, but anything in particular?

-spenc

 

Spence:

Simple and cheap from the hardware aisle at Home Depot. They have steel channel. I think I used 1 1/2 x 1/2 in the Prepared car. It's in a bin with all the threaded rod.

Use your factory tracks bolted to two pieces of the channel, then bolt the seat to the channels. A racing seat should be narrow enough to be inboard of the track mounting points. I used the original seat track bolts for the floor pan attachment, going into the original stock seat attachment, and grade 8 for the bolts into the seat.

This way the seat attaches to the floorpan at the stock reinforced locations, and no welding required, just a couple of hacksaw rips and drilling.

 

excelant, thanks rob. that will work for one project im working on. but for my car, i have to weld in because i need to move the seat further back. i need more leg room.

-spenc

 

Did you do a search? I thought we covered this about 4 month ago.

Check out this thread to see how we did it in a Miata-r.
https://honda-tech.com/zero...09020

 

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-spenc</TD></TR></TABLE>

you must be with me in the over 6 foot 2 in crowd? it's hard to get a proper seating position WITH A HELMET on!

 

Spence,

Depending on the mounting points of your seat, you may find it ends up further back. I know my OMP mounted this way on the stock track ia about 2" further rearward in the same range of travel. It will go back far enough that I can't reach the pedals.

 

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spencer has to be damn near 7 feet tall with a helmet...

 

yea, im 78" tall. so i need more leg room more than anything. the head room isnt a problem actually, but i could use a few more inches just to get my head away from the roof.

 

i'm in the same boat, i'm 6'3" and i want to be able to be in a good position while racing. gotta find some seats/brackets that let me do that with a helmet on.
-Scott

 

my friend imports rails from japan that let the seat move farther back. i dont think the seat sits any lower tho. they move far enough back that i can fit (almost) in his s13 240sx. but he has a bucket, so i need alittle more room. but to get lower, i cant think of anything else to do but make new mounting points to attach everything to the car.

 

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which is something you tall guys may have to do from reading the post.

 

I'm debating a re-mount of my Sparco seat, the inability to rotate my leg for proper rev-matching when the brake pedal goes pretty deep at the track is starting to suck hard.

I've got the sparco basemount and sparco siderails on my Evo. I think i'd like to go an inch or so back and lower an inch or maybe even two (i'm pretty tall)...everyone please post pix of your seat mounting so ideas can float around. Here's mine, fairly straightforward, no adjustability at all:

 

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i swear that sparco base is the biggest piece of **** made. see how tall it is in the back? ridiculous. the stock rear setup is offset, the vertical tab being taller than the horizontal tab. with the sparco they are even. way to tall. sorry, i will stop bitching...

 

there's gotta be a way to fabricate a bracket to go from the floor to the sliders. i will get it to work, what materials should i use? i need my seat low! sitting on the floor may be an option for me

 

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there is. here are a few i have done





all you need is a mig and strap steel. my brackets weigh double what the sparco does, but as you can see, they are worlds apart....

 

Rodney, wow, i am very impressed with your work. looks like i have something i can look at when i have my welder out this weekend dam good work man!
-Scary