Lex

Slightly off topic, but does anyone regret going with leather pole positions vs. fabric?

Chris_Lum

nice work! I didn't realize my design was so close to yours. Looks like the main differences are that I used aluminum sides (so I went thicker) and for the belt attachment I purchased the "S" bracket made by Bride since I needed an "S" shaped bracket and I didn't trust myself to bend a bracket and have it strong enough to withstand an accident.

B serious

Yours looks great. I wish I could have done mine out of aluminum. But I needed to weld the seat adjustment cable anchors. My friend didn't have an aluminum weld apparatus. So...I went with 1/8" thick steel.

I see a lot of pencil marks. Did you hand-mill it? And did you just bolt your cable anchors on?

Chris_Lum

ah, you welded your cable anchors on, interesting. would you mind posting a picture of the insides of your setup?
The marks are from the fabricator that I hired. I had drawing with dimensions that I was going to draw in AutoCAD but my free trial expired and my friend with a CAD machine also backed out so I ended up hiring a fabricator to cut them and he ended up doing them by hand, unfortunately. They are not nearly as clean as i'd hoped. If I end up keeping these seats, I will likely get another set custom machined eventually.

For the cable anchors, yes I just bolted them on. everything is bolted together actually. The part I dislike the most about my setup is that the slider handle sticks out really far since I had to mount the entire assembly more forward due to the bottom of the seat interfering with the original position I had planned for it.

B serious

Welded and then seam sealed because I had gotten a tube of industial chassis sealer as a freebie from a chassis company haha. I wanted to use it for *something*. So I decided to seal the weld (???).