I’m 6’5’', my car is fine, JSR tweaked it a bit and i fit no worries… though i have realised i could rip out the probax foam and sit closer to the deck, it looks like its basically a leather layer sitting on maybe an inch of foam the leather then wraps a bit under the foam and is glued to the plastic seat. i think i could lift it up, chop off the foam that sits under my ass, glue the leather back down and end up with a better driving position. replacing said foam in future would be the same deal.
has anyone ever done this, or does anyone have any idea whether it’s as simple as i think?
I can’t see that compressed foam would be more than a couple of millimetres. Does removing the adjustability mechanism of the drivers seat allow it to mount lower straight onto the floor??
the seat is on custom drilled tallrails to sit right on the floor, the foam is at a push an inch thick uncompressed, i imagine removing it saves a bit over a cm, might not sound like much but i have about 1mm of clearance wearing a helmt on a trackday lol
a more hardcore alternative is to chop off the bottom of the seat, some guy on lotus talk did that
I’m 6’-2" and my son’s are 6’-4" each… I’ve made custom seat rails and now it is quite comfortable and roomy inside. I had installed Sector 111 tall rails in there at first and was very disappointed with them.
That’s OK…you don’t know me or my expertise…
I used to design crash-worthy seats for aircraft. The only thing I didn’t do is test these dynamically my seat rails… I’d much rather crash in my seat rails that the OEM one…
surely in a crash the most important thing is the belts/harnesses keeping you in the car, the seat doesn’t help with this. The seat’s not really subjected to any force other than it’;s own momentum and it doesn’t really have anywhere to go even if it were to come loose. Why are you guys so worried about his seat rails?
I have the tallrails but they’re custom drilled to get the seat further back, i’d have to check but the most i could get with a new fabrication may only be half an inch
A “harness” has multiple attachment point. The lap belt ends are the only ones that attach to the seat rails. Mine are designed so that the lap belt load is destributed to the front and the aft attachment screws. The shoulder harnesses attach to the rollbar… the 5th and 6th points are different.
