Fitting Of Seats?

[Guest osteve123]

Hi everyone,

 

I recently bought a pair of seats for my S7 off of ebay. The only problem is that there are no mounting holes/bolts etc for the runners. The base is made of what looks like glass fibre etc. Any thoughts of the best way of making them secure for the SVA? I had thought of some "deep threaded" self tappers, but not sure if these would be upto the job?

 

Cheer's,

 

Steve

[baj25]

Steve,

I too have fibreglass seats. I fixed them to the runners with M8 8.8 tensile screws, with penny washers between screw head and f/glass. Passed SVA no problem, I don’t even recall the examiner looking at them. HTH, Brian

[Graham B]

Mine are glass fibre , but with cushions inside.

I lifted the cushions and made a metal frame to supply the 4 anchor points , then refitted the cushions.

 

Graham B

[Guest osteve123]

Cheer's guy's,

 

The actual seats look just like the cobra roadster ones. The glass fibre feels about 1" thick that is just on the base, the rest is a normal padded seat.

 

I take it that the tensile screws would do the job?

 

Steve

[NeilD]

It is the harnesses that matter - not the seats !!

 

Don't remember them even looking at the seats at SVA - the harnesses were well checked!

[Snapperpaul]

I would bolt through with load spreading washers. For comfort its best to bolt through the sides with flat head allen bolts and use a side plate.

There is a section in the SVA manual about seat mounting, they checked for load spreading washers on Kwick Arfs build, i had an angle iron sub frame for each seat

[baj25]

Steve,

sorry it has taken me a while to post this. Had to get the camera manual out because first pictures it took were totally out of focus! (I needed to do a manual focus because image has low contrast and hence confuses autofocus) Hope this helps anyway. Seats are intatrim odyssey. Cheers, Brian

 

[Graham B]

Yes,

Same seats , but with B&Q flat bar, braced instead of large washers

I get in and out far from carefully and the base is still solid.

 

Graham B

[Guest osteve123]

Thanks for all you help guys,

 

Hopefully get it sorted in the next few days.

 

Cheer's

 

Steve