Project Blue Book

[KS]

My original attempt at fitting the Cobra RSR seats in my 914 using the stock subframe/runners ended with the seats in roughly the same position is yours. Felt fine sitting in the car but when I came to drive it, it was way too high, even for a short-arse like me. My final design saw the seat dropped by over half an inch, resulting in a much more comfortable driving position, but still with the full adjustability (height/rake, fore/aft etc) as stock.

[chief]

My original attempt at fitting the Cobra RSR seats in my 914 using the stock subframe/runners ended with the seats in roughly the same position is yours. Felt fine sitting in the car but when I came to drive it, it was way too high, even for a short-arse like me. My final design saw the seat dropped by over half an inch, resulting in a much more comfortable driving position, but still with the full adjustability (height/rake, fore/aft etc) as stock.

Very interesting...
I do need to fit the seat and give it a 'Sit in'.
I appreciate the heads up, thank you.

[chief]

Well a bit of an update. Lots of painting bits and bobs so won't bore anyone with that lot.

I have been finishing off the seat rails and adding an under seat fire extinguisher.

There isn't lots of room to work with so I have had to get quite inventive with it's positioning.





I decided to go with attaching to the seat frame as apposed to the seat rails. I could get the bracket closer.







A few rivnuts strategically placed.



So a quick mock-up. I decided that the extinguisher being 1kg hanging might get a bit springy. I added some triangles to help with that.





I then added the quick release to see if everything would fit.





Attaching the extinguisher bottle revealed there was still some spring. I decided to reinforce a little more which has done the trick.







I'm using 1.6mm steel and thought wrongly that I could get away without having to do this bit. Fortunately it's all hidden by the bottle.

As you can see on the last picture I have got lots of penetration with the welds through to the other side of the steel. This should fix this problem.







So just painting of these parts currently underway along with the seat rails.



Here are the seats in for checking.



And just to prove I am painting stuff....sooo boring.





A couple of shots to cheer myself up.







So there we have it. In truth not too much more to actually do now on the fabrication front. I can hopefully get all buttoned up and pack to car off to the Super Stars at Greatworth Classics. Angus and the boys can install engine, box and other lovelies.