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New stuff going on with the Tiger, removed stock seats, added some Vintage Cobra (Not the car but the seat company) seats. I had to make up some rails and do a little learning by mistakes, here are a few pics and the links from the project.
Pictures are out of order. Did a couple of things some might have been excessive, but here goes. All the step by step is also on my web site at -
http://gtsparkplugs.com/sunbeam-tiger-seat-install.html
The initial seats rails were very close to the Tiger seat rails, but not quite. So some bracketing had to be made up.
I used 1.5" x 3/16" thick aluminum angle for all the work.
I added 2 additional seat hold downs as the small bolts didn't instill a sense of safety. One set are fastened with rivnuts the other drill through to the bottom of the car.
The chassis seat rails are not a flat mounting surface, the fronts of all the rails have a slight angle down, look at the fabricated brackets for how much.
I made the seats fixed in location, but some adjustability can be had if you drill the mounting holes symmetrically so the seat can move fore and aft.
The one thing to watch out for is the seats in the Tiger are NOT centered on the rails. They seem to be offset towards the transmission tunnel. So after finding this out I did some work to make the brackets move the seats towards the center of the car.
Again some pics are here, step by step instructions on what I did are on the link above.
One tip is mock things up a lot before cutting and drilling.
Happy Motoring!
Pictures are out of order. Did a couple of things some might have been excessive, but here goes. All the step by step is also on my web site at -
http://gtsparkplugs.com/sunbeam-tiger-seat-install.html
The initial seats rails were very close to the Tiger seat rails, but not quite. So some bracketing had to be made up.
I used 1.5" x 3/16" thick aluminum angle for all the work.
I added 2 additional seat hold downs as the small bolts didn't instill a sense of safety. One set are fastened with rivnuts the other drill through to the bottom of the car.
The chassis seat rails are not a flat mounting surface, the fronts of all the rails have a slight angle down, look at the fabricated brackets for how much.
I made the seats fixed in location, but some adjustability can be had if you drill the mounting holes symmetrically so the seat can move fore and aft.
The one thing to watch out for is the seats in the Tiger are NOT centered on the rails. They seem to be offset towards the transmission tunnel. So after finding this out I did some work to make the brackets move the seats towards the center of the car.
Again some pics are here, step by step instructions on what I did are on the link above.
One tip is mock things up a lot before cutting and drilling.
Happy Motoring!