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Old 06-06-2006, 03:50 AM
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G'day FF
I have a 1998 DRB with the same type seats (not registered yet) and the Engineer has said because more than one person may drive it, the seats have to be adjustable. I am currently looking for some sliders to bolt to the bottom of the seats. Take a wander through some wrecking yards and look at the slide rails, there must be something amongst all the little cars that will suit. If I find something suitable soon I will let you know. My son has a set he took off some seats that he bought for his 4x4 that look like they will fit, but he has to remember to drop them off, which could take a while.
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Old 06-06-2006, 04:48 AM
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Dave,
I had my seats made by Auto Concepts (SAAS) in Mulgrave VIC and I got runners for them so they are adjustable. They are easy to fit to the base of your seats and only cost about $70 set.

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Old 06-06-2006, 04:59 AM
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Dave, runners are pretty easy to fit. Had the same seats as yours in our DRB and we used Van seat sliders. They are generally very slim mounting. A Search of the wreckers will find them for a good price. Make sure though that they are double locking, ie, the lever engages lock on both left & right sliders. Some sliders only lock one side and are not as strong.

That's not going to be the problem.

Being 1998 vintage, I'm guessing you don't have a dropped floor DRB. Does your floor kick up where the seat mounts, or is the floor completely flat from front where your feet are, right to the back where the seat is?

If you have standard floor(not dropped), I expect any sliders will make the seating position too high. If you have a dropped floor, then ignore my ramblings as you will have plenty of room for sliders.

With our DRB will cut and welded recesses where the sliders were. The seat height was only a couple of mm above the remaining floor so that it would slide back and forth. Only raising the seat a mm didn't impact seating height. And we could still fit catalytic converters under the seats as we didn't have the floor completely dropped.

I've always been bemused that in the old days, most Cobra's never had sliding seats and they were engineered fine.
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