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Location:
Melbourne
Registered:
January 2005
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Re: Modifying driver's seat rails
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Fri, 21 January 2005 10:36
 
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If you are after something cheap and cheerful but very effective, make up a simple bracket to raise the front of the seat tracks. My 6'4" mate had a similar problem with his TA22 Celica and used a rectangular piece of flat steel, say 50mm * 20mm * 3mm with 2 * 10mm'ish holes drilled one above the other. He used the standard seat bolt through the bottom hole of the bracket into the chassis and a nut and bolt through the top hole to attach to the seat rail. All times 2 of course. The assumption is the bolts holding the front of the rail go in horizontal towards the reas. If they go in vertical, just use a short length of 25 square tube, drilled, with longer bolts.
This tilted the seat swab down towards the rear, raising the front edge and providing much needed thigh support. I know it doesn't sound like it increases the distance from your bum to the pedals but it does. Picture your legs going from "--" to "/\", but obviously not as exaggerated.
As a test, just undo the front seat rails and pack the front of the rails up 25mm temporarily with a block of timber. (No, don't test drive it, just test sit it). You'll be very surprised.
And yes, I suspect the modification is illegal as suggested above.
Good luck.
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