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24th October 2010, 06:37 PM
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been busy today
After hours of cuting, grinding, welding... and so on i got bored and decided to have some fun and start making a pair of seats. Iv made up my seats from plywood to which im going to place a thin metal plate to the upper side of the seat bottom to carry the captive bolts. Im then going to raid the wifes knicker drawer for some tights and staple the material under tension over the seat frame to form nice comfy curves. Then i intend on aplying a couple of layes of fiberglass, then skim and paint. The finished result will be heavier than a set of proper bucket seats but at the moment, the seats only weigh 2kg each, i hoping that they will be no more than 5kg each once finished. Its also going to save a few quid as well.
Big thanks to andy from saturn for inspiring me to get cracking on my build, I was grinning all the way home after he took me for a blast in his roadster, in the wet!  nathan 
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24th October 2010, 07:21 PM
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Looks very nice, Years ago i found a website that sold seat spares and they sold the plastic inserts for the holes for the harness in the seats but i cant find it, ive searched the manufacturers websites but no such luck, anyone had any luck?.....
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24th October 2010, 07:39 PM
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I'm impressed at the seats, I hadn't thought of making them of plywood.
However, are you sure you need to fibreglass them, I understand wanting a good coating but I think that something like flowcoat on its own would be easier to do and quite adequate.
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24th October 2010, 07:55 PM
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Might I suggest instead of using very thin nylon ie tights that you use cotton based fleece, find it on ebay for £4-5 a square mtr. It's thicker and the resign will soak in to it and hold it better, if you use the nylon it will fall through. Just some thing I picked up from watching far too much 'pimp my ride' 'chop shop' 'custom my ride' ect.
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#6
24th October 2010, 08:31 PM
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Did the same thing in cardboard a while ago.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/30468413@N03/5111147179/ Be aware of the seat belt holes and roll bar mount for the belts as I believe it can fail the IVA for the wrong height.
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