Hi George...

I'm under the impression that your running some light weight racing seats... I remember your thread when you were installing the roll cage.

My question: Do the seats your running fold forward? I'd like to drop some weight, and the seats sound like an easy way to do it. (Besides a diet... )

Thanks for your time

 

TTT

 

12 pounds and 8 oz Sparco "Ultra" fiberglass seat.

For safety racing seats are non folding. that's why I sent one back and still have the stock 79 passenger seat for rear access.

Really nice seat. I'm able to do 1500 mile day drives. I also originally bought the adjustable mounting kit. It makes the seat way to high. A smart person would have just cut the raised portion of the floor out. Then reglass it in so the floor is flat. You would gain a good two inches.

So anyway I took 1 1/2 X .250 flat bar stock and drilled and mounted it to the seat bottom. Then i drilled 3 sets of holes to use the stock threaded mounting positions. So I have an adjustable seat by unbolting it.

Even though I have the seat all the way back against the battery box and as low as I can go because it's only a 1/4 inch of flat bar smashing down on tha carpet. The seating position is probably and inch higher than stock. So it helps with the view on my long nose because my seat is farther back than stock. My feet are straight forward. My 5'6" wife can't even reach the petals and I've only moved the seat forward for her at the race track once. She said that it was too scary driving at the track. So she never drove the Vette again.

Look up Sparco seats. Vettes are very limited as to what size you can install. Fiber seats are the best in an impact because they flex. Metal racing seats are ridged.

My racing buddy who is one of the few people to ever drive my Vette is 6 feet and 215 and he likes the snug side fit. I'm 5'10 170 and really feel like part of the car when your sinched in the 5 point harness system. Your sitting so close to the rear wheels that you can tell when the rear end is trying to come around.

 

Thanks for the input!

I'm pondering the one piece seat, with a track that looks like a scissor. Have a solid mounted 90 degree bent bracket on the floor, with a bushed pin at the front... then mount the seat on a bracket similar to the one on the floor, using lynch or hitch pins to lock the rear in place. Pop the clip off the pin, fold the seat forward!

I figure if its good enough to hold a trailer hitch in place, or keep a 3 point attached to the implement on a tractor, it'll be good enough for a seat!

 

The only problem I can see with that plan is: Just look at a stock vette seat. You have ZERO room on either side to be pulling a pin in and out.

The stock seat folded down you can move it forward and get in behind it or from the front. I can have my passenger seat out in two minutes with a butterfly air wrench and 8 inch 3/8 extension.

I considered welding and modifying the stock adjustable bracket. but the Sparco seat would be to high. That brings you back to cutting the raised floor out an reglassing it in lower. It's what i would do if I was over 6'1" anyway.

 

I'd just be cutting out the floor and glassing in a flat floor all the way to the kick ups.

I'm thinking that the pins would be best situated behind the seats, even with the bottom half of the seats, back near the battery tray.

Wonder if a hinge at the front, and some tabs on the back of the seats would work... I wonder about the strength... and the sharp pointy bars that would be rather close to ones hiney!