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DT is Demon Tweeks. The kit I bought is a fixed one - 2 alu runners with holes along them and 2 plates either side that attach to the seat side-mount and the runner (with 2 bolts). That makes it a 5 piece kit rather than 3 piece. Don't know where my head was earlier.![[FONT=verdana,geneva"]](/forum/styles/default/pcgb/space.gif ". [FONT=verdana,geneva\"]")
Luckily my indie is roughly the same height as me and he's the only other person who drives it. In fact barring Paul (Hilux) nobody else has ever driven it to my knowledge.
Luckily my indie is roughly the same height as me and he's the only other person who drives it. In fact barring Paul (Hilux) nobody else has ever driven it to my knowledge.I can get some tomorrow as the hearse is in for disks and I'll be using the light blue 944 courtesy carto get home again. For now there are quite a few on Rick's site www.cannell.co.uk if you go to events and look at Goldtrack 08/05.
For now there are quite a few on Rick's site www.cannell.co.uk if you go to events and look at Goldtrack 08/05.
It's not every day you leave a spirits and wine company, so you have to make it good [
] I use the seatbelts on the road and the harnesses will be for track once I have a cage with harness bar. I have the original seat belt retainers mounted to the side of the tunnel (so you have to make a hole and reinforce it).
] I use the seatbelts on the road and the harnesses will be for track once I have a cage with harness bar. I have the original seat belt retainers mounted to the side of the tunnel (so you have to make a hole and reinforce it).
bennyboy
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Hey Fen, sorry to drag this one up - hope you don't mind! I've almost settled on some corbeau sprint xl's - like yours. Being 6ft 5 I need to be low, so I think a slider is out of the question. In the second pic of your seat, it looks like the seat is bolted directly to the triangular section attached to the floor rail? Is this the case or is the side mount almost invisible? Thanks, Ben.
In the second pic the screw at the top is into the captive thread in the seat, so I guess that is the side mount. It's directly attached as you describe anyway.
The bottom 2 screws then hold the triangular piece to the floor rail and it in turn is bolted to the floor using the original seat mounts and captive nuts/fasteners. It's as low as you can go at the back, but I'd like it lower still.
The bottom 2 screws then hold the triangular piece to the floor rail and it in turn is bolted to the floor using the original seat mounts and captive nuts/fasteners. It's as low as you can go at the back, but I'd like it lower still.
The original seats have sliding runners attached, and they bolt into captive nuts under the floor with 5 socket head screws each seat (one of the sides at the rear has 2 screws). I used these for my brackets which involved drilling one additional hole to line up with the floor-pan holes and then mounted them using the 5 original screws per side. Those brackets are simply an L-shaped section of aluminium maybe 7mm thick.
I'm about 5'11", so slightly taller than average but nothing like your height. I don't know how much you'll struggle at 6" taller than me, even if that 6" is evenly split between legs and body. I'd say that in my sunroof car I probably don't have 3" between my helmet and the roof panel, but it might be that much and possibly it's close. I didn't say I wanted to be lower still through hitting the roof but because I wanted to sit peeking over the steering wheel to feel I was lowering the CoG of the car. The arrangement I have has to be a fair bit lower than the OE seat as mine is lowered to sit between the runners and the base is thinner - how much more clearance do you need with a helmet on in the standard seat?
As you can see from the second pic the seat is not only as low as it will go but also as far back as it can go on the floor brackets. There is room behind the seat to be set further back, but I can't honestly remember enough about the floor brackets to know how easy it would be to set them further back and still use the original seat mounting holes in the floor. I'm guessing here when I say it will be possible, but you might need to make all new holes in the bracket rather than just the one I had to make.
I'm about 5'11", so slightly taller than average but nothing like your height. I don't know how much you'll struggle at 6" taller than me, even if that 6" is evenly split between legs and body. I'd say that in my sunroof car I probably don't have 3" between my helmet and the roof panel, but it might be that much and possibly it's close. I didn't say I wanted to be lower still through hitting the roof but because I wanted to sit peeking over the steering wheel to feel I was lowering the CoG of the car. The arrangement I have has to be a fair bit lower than the OE seat as mine is lowered to sit between the runners and the base is thinner - how much more clearance do you need with a helmet on in the standard seat?
As you can see from the second pic the seat is not only as low as it will go but also as far back as it can go on the floor brackets. There is room behind the seat to be set further back, but I can't honestly remember enough about the floor brackets to know how easy it would be to set them further back and still use the original seat mounting holes in the floor. I'm guessing here when I say it will be possible, but you might need to make all new holes in the bracket rather than just the one I had to make.
bennyboy
New member
Don't shoot don't shoot! I know I'm dragging this one up again but I finally got some seats yesterday at Autosport, and I have a question. I got Corbeau Sprint XL's, with Corbeau side mounts. By my measurements, the distance between the seat mounting holes in the floor is dead-on 16in. The distance between the mounting holes in the side mounts is a little more than that at the back of the seat, but quite a bit more than that at the front - i.e. I wont be able to drill the Corbeau side mounts to make them fit (anybody interested in these let me know - good price!). I know from this thread that Fen used universal mounts, so I'm going to try my luck with Demon Tweeks. Has anybody else mounted seats and had the same issue? Secondly, I attach the right hand (driver) harness lap belt to the original seat belt mount, but where do I attach the left hand one? Do I have to attach something to the transmission tunnel? Thanks chaps.
Peter Empson
PCGB Member
Glad to hear you got some seats Ben [
]Can't comment on the side mounts, I used a Cobra runner for the drivers side and it went in without trouble, but my garage fitted the passenger side (without runner) as they had to weld in the attachment for the 3 point belt that I was using at the time so I don't know if it needed any modifications.
The innermost mounting point for the harness should be on the transmission tunnel, I've attached a pic below of the passenger side showing what we've ended up with on mine (the black goo is a sealant around the weld).
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