That's enough of electrickery for now... Back to the metal bashing!
This week I have mostly been sorting out my seat mounting.
I won these on ebay a few weeks back for the princely sum of £27 each:
After nearly a month of excuses from the seller they finally arrived (much to my joy and surprise!).
In the meantime I'd been trying to win some cheap runners, after many failed attempts I finally bit the bullet and bought some new ones from kitparts direct.
Again, they took ages to arrive, but not nearly as long as the seats thankfully (why is it so hard to stick something in the post once you've sold it???).
The mounting holes in the runners were well off where I needed them, but a spot of drilling soon fixed that.
I had originally intended to weld 50mmx3mm flat strips into the chassis to mount the runners on and had them cut to length ready.
As it happened I couldn't mount the runners flat on the floor as the adjusters got in the way so I used 25x25mm box section instead:
I'm actually glad I didn't mount them as I had planned as after fitting the seats I popped my scuttle on top of the chassis.
I didn't realise quite how high it sat - if the seats were any lower I doubt I could see over it, and as it is it's going to be marginal. Might have to borrow one of the kids booster seats.
The seats themselves are a very tight fit in the chassis.
They only just squeeze between the rails, and I think I may have to trim a little off them once I've added the ally panels to the tranny tunnel.
One potential issue with using the MX5 for a donor is that you have to flare the back of the tranny tunnel out as the input to the diff is offset.
This means my seats won't go all the way to the seatbacks, stopping a few inches short.
Luckily for me I'm a bit, erm, vertically challenged, so not a problem.
I suspect most of my mates are going to struggle to drive it though. Nevermind!
