D-59: Seat Complete
After ordering the replacement main and rod bearings today, I figured I might as well press on with the non-engine related tasks. So tonight I finished up the revised driver’s seat position and got everything mounted up. The good things about the revised seat position is that it is about 1.5″ (maybe more) closer to the center console and further away from the door bars, which makes it safer. It’s also about 2″ lower — we’re almost literally sitting on the floor of the car. The difference in height is really noticeable. The car is still the same small car that it’s always been, so it’s not like our helmets are ever going to have a ton of room away from the roll cage, but at least they’re a couple inches further away now.
The seat now goes back further than it ever did before, in fact, so far that I now need to revise the lap belt attachment points. Right now, with the seat in its rearmost position, the factory lap belt attachment points are actually ahead of the point where they pass through the seat. Not the safest way to fly. So I’ve ordered some Class 8 eyebolts and snap ends for the belts and will add those to the car after they arrive.
Tomorrow night I will work on finishing the revisions to the radiator and front cooling hoses and maybe get to work on the front grille/air dam/splitter assembly. Once the engine parts get in, it will be all engine, all the time. There is some suspension work to do too — super-discount ball joints that I picked up on a wholesaler closeout at Rock Auto means new ball joints on all 4 corners, which should tighten up our suspension and take some of the wobble/slop out of things. I don’t have any illusions that we’ll ever really contend in this race (our driving just isn’t good enough, even for LeMons), but at least we could be challenging.
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