Bucket seat advice (subframes too!) please

tigerstyle

tigerstyle

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Here is my chariot for LeMans this year, I'll mostly be navigating (expertly) but also doing the odd stint in the other side of the car, anyhoo, my question (from the titles obviously) is about the bucket seats, I'm 6foot2ish, the owner of the car is shorter 5foot8

He finds the angle of his seat back fine, I find it kills me. The short trip is fine, the longer one's LeMans+Europe after (Ring baby!) won't be, I think it's all down to the angle of the dangle, it's way to far forwards for my liking feels like I'm getting tipped out of it all the time so my weight is never in the right part of the seat, like my bum where it should be, it's all over the top of my shoulders and thighs.


We looked at the subframes this weekend and the problem here is, that they are already fully adjusted, the front and back bolts are in the highest possible positions with no way to lower the seat as the bolts holding the subframes to the welded sideways runners already meet, literally the seat is resting on the tops of the bolts on the bottom and held in my the screws on the side too, How can we rectify this arrangement so that we can angle my seat back a bit, AND will this even help the situation?

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A whole new subframe? Costs on that? Rework the existing subframe?
Ideas please!

Long thread too, thanks for getting this far :D
 
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Phil W said:
Are the subframes bolted in?

Put a couple of bolts on the threads at the front, so it raises them up?
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That makes me think that then the subframe is then not supported properly, kinda being clamped down on half a bolt sorta thing?

Is it possible there are actually another set of holes in the seats further down so we can lift the whole seat up a bit?
 
Just create a spacer out of some steel flat bar, drill holes for the bolts to go through, have it running across the front of the seat under the subframe, the extra strength of the bar and the fact it will spread the load accross the whole floor will make the seat mounted stronger than ever.

I have to say i wouldnt sit in those seats, they are stupidly vertical, good for a quick sprint but not a road trip.
 
Mattius said:
I have to say i wouldnt sit in those seats, they are stupidly vertical, good for a quick sprint but not a road trip.
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It was built as a hill climber, but yeah there is no 'bucket' action on those seats!

encephalopathy: that is genius! thanks for that, will see how it goes when I next get a chance to fiddle with the car!
 
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