Moving the seat

[redvettx2]

I would like to slide my seat back a little. Tracked system. When I pull the lever I see it pulls the tabs away from the track but the seat will not budge forward of back. Any tips?

[Blas]

Seat tracks are secured to car with two bolts accessible from underside of car. You will probably need to remove them and clean and lubricant them to make them move properly again if they are not releasing and sliding when locking arm is disengaged.
Blas

[Dominik]

In one of my client's cars they had never been moved. Upon further inspection they were not even mounted in parallel!

[patrickt]

RV2 -- If you are a big boy, and nobody but you ever drives your car, you might consider mounting your seat directly to the floor with new holes, all shimmed to fit your liking perfectly. A slight elevation to the front, while moving the seat down and back, will give you a surprising amount of extra room.

[redvettx2]

Originally Posted by patrickt

RV2 -- If you are a big boy, and nobody but you ever drives your car, you might consider mounting your seat directly to the floor with new holes, all shimmed to fit your liking perfectly. A slight elevation to the front, while moving the seat down and back, will give you a surprising amount of extra room.

5-11 175 so not really a big boy. Was pushing 225 at one point and that qualified, LOL. I like the front of the seat as high as possible and the rear as low as I can go normally. I like your idea. Will play with it more. Hell, I was poking around back there and found a set of mounted Tri Axel Speakers. Hidden on the floor built in behind the seat. I found spliced wires under the glove box so I figured they had a radio mounted inside at one point but must have pulled it. Can you hear anything but side pipes in a Cobra? Hidden really well. Seen the ones mounted up high which would be better but looks too modern for me.

Have ramps coming to get under her easier and safer. Missing my buddies lift already. Going to try cleaning and working the slider first if not just direct mount.

[patrickt]

Originally Posted by redvettx2

. Can you hear anything but side pipes in a Cobra? Hidden really well. Seen the ones mounted up high which would be better but looks too modern for me.

Sure you can. In 5th gear, which with my TKO is .64, and at 2200 RPM, I am travelling at almost exactly 75 MPH and that is the sweet spot for easy highway cruising and the pipes are not loud at all at that spot. You can talk with your passenger without screaming and a half hour of it will not give you a headache. That just happens to be where my mill's build, along with cam specs, and all, like to be for gentle easy cruising. That said, I would never consider a radio, nor even earbuds. Listening to, feeling and smelling the car is its own reward. That's another advantage of having the seat shimmed and bolted down. Nothing in your driving position ever changes; everything feels exactly the same from drive to drive unless something is letting you know there's a problem afoot. After 17 years with her, if I feel, hear, smell, or sense something is different I go on red alert

[redvettx2]

For highway it even a bit tall geared in my opinion. 2200 RPM's it is going 80 and it is pretty quiet. I agree about no radio. For this car I am thinking the other lower geared overdrive would be a much better choice. My motor doesn't seem to be very happy at 2000 RPM's. Seems to be lugging and just not in happy place. Shift to 4th and ****s ready to happen but thinking the racing OD is a way better choice for this car. Curious to hear from someone running those gears to hear the RPM's at 75 to 80. Thinking about 2500 to 2600 Rpm's which the motor would seem to like more better.

[jhv48]

Had the same concern with my TKO 600. That tall 5th gear was just too big of a jump from fourth to fifth. Swapped the TKO600 for road race TKO 600 and now I’m cruising comfortably at 2500 rpm and no more huge drop in rpm’s when going from fourth to fifth. And my motor is mildly cammed for street use. Happy at 2000 rpm but I’m not.

[patrickt]

Originally Posted by redvettx2

My motor doesn't seem to be very happy at 2000 RPM's. Seems to be lugging and just not in happy place.

And it might not ever be. But I will tell you that taking the time (years, maybe) to get your engine in absolutely perfect tune will not only benefit you on the high end of your revs it will also make your car run better at the low end as well. When I took the trouble to optimize my air flow down through the carb (the pretty S&H Chrome filter is a real choker), and concentrated on A/F tuning, the low end of my engine's comfort zone moved from low 2000's to the mid to high teens. Now, all that means is that my car does not buck and strain down at 1800 when I'm out on the interstate cruising or slowing down or gently speeding up. If I want to speed up in any fashion other than lightly and gently I down shift straight to 3rd or at least to 4th. But, before you even think of changing out any gear ratios, take a year or two to concentrate on getting your engine to run at its very, very best And one nice thing about having a .64 5th gear is that all the online speed calculators tell me my car will go over 230MPH.

[ERA174]

redvettx2, The following link will will take you to the SCOF gearing calculator. https://secondstrike.com/Technical/GearCalc.asp