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
24th October 2010, 06:37 PM
been busy today
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