{"id":555,"date":"2009-05-19T12:50:05","date_gmt":"2009-05-19T02:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/robhealey.com.au\/Corvette\/?p=555"},"modified":"2023-03-12T08:05:22","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T22:05:22","slug":"seat-lower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/robhealey.com.au\/Corvette\/projects\/seat-lower\/","title":{"rendered":"Seat Lower"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have a long back which is very stiff through injury and even with the power seat at it’s lowest position, I have some trouble sqeezing into the vette. Once in the seat, my head is very close to the roof and I have to hunch down a bit, so a few years ago I added some wire to lengthen the two inner seat springs on the drivers side seat and also removed some foam from the seat.<\/p>\n

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This was a big improvement, but I soon noticed the reclining mechanism sticking into my side. i replaced the power reclining system with a shorter manual one and that fixed that problem. I also began to notice a hard ledge towards the front of the seat. This wasn’t too uncomfortable at first but I realised it was preventing me from sitting a little bit lower.<\/p>\n

The hard ledge was the raised part of the seat that holds the front retainer to the seat springs. <\/p>\n

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So I cut it out !<\/p>\n

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The seat is made of plastic with some metal embedded at key areas around the edge. the part I cut out was all plastic, and I used the cutting wheel on a dremel<\/p>\n

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The part I cut out looks like it was contributing to the rigidity of the seat base, so I fabricated some 6mm aluminium flat bar to replace it, but mounted further forward. <\/p>\n

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One end bolts through into the seat track, the other bolts through a spare hole. looks like the seats have two sets of holes so they can be mounted as left or right seats. <\/p>\n

I used some fencing wire temporarily to hold the front of the seat wires in place. The seat feels more comfortable and I have possibly gained another 10 mm headroom. Now my head only justs hits the roof as I squeeze into the car. <\/p>\n

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When I have used the seat for a while I’ll replace the fencing wire with some stainless steel wire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have a long back which is very stiff through injury and even with the power seat at it’s lowest position, I have some trouble sqeezing into the vette. Once in the seat, my head is very close to the roof and I have to hunch down a bit, so a few years ago I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[11,43],"class_list":["post-555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projects","tag-corvette","tag-seats"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/robhealey.com.au\/Corvette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/robhealey.com.au\/Corvette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/robhealey.com.au\/Corvette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/robhealey.com.au\/Corvette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/robhealey.com.au\/Corvette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/robhealey.com.au\/Corvette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1199,"href":"http:\/\/robhealey.com.au\/Corvette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions\/1199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/robhealey.com.au\/Corvette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/robhealey.com.au\/Corvette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/robhealey.com.au\/Corvette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}