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    Moving on to closing up the ends of the outer seat riser... Quite a bit of stretch to get this corner to match up to the seat riser...




















    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzorB_hwLZM


    Then the corner was Tig welded in place and another test fit with the bucket seat..


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kf-X5eHc5bE
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    I'd like to place my order please.

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    What the heck Robert, I'm still not seeing any GREEN!
    56 Nomad, Ramjet 502, Viper 6-speed T56, C4 Corvette front and rear suspension


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    one day soon....ish.


    Well, let's back up and punt one more time. The owner of the 55 stopped by about a week ago and sat in the mocked up bucket seat. She said it sat too high, so our version 2 seat brackets were out. Cutting the floor pan was over-ruled (for recessing the brackets) so we opted for a 14 gauge flat seat pan directly on top of the floor, which also gave us a shape we could eliminate the "step" in the floor.







    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYklSvTtTTQ

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfWqQyOeXJo

    Next is to add the wedges to the rear ramp for attaching the rear of the track slides...
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    Robert I'm a big fella just curious is your customer a 7 footer lol.

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    SHE is about 5-8, 5-10 maybe.. We also moved rearward almost two inches, once bolted down where we could operate the seat controls and see what was needed... She sat in the car as it was up on the rotisserie, so I thought that may be giving a false sense of being too high. So we went to my B-I-L's to sit in his still original 56 and compare.



    Where the seat heights were the same, the original 56 seat has more "compression" to its springs . The buckets are both power heated seats so we opted to slam them down as far as we could without cutting the floor pan, they can always be adjusted up.
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    B-I-L has a nice pickup.

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    Quite a few NOS parts in that truck build...



    Final design on the bucket seat brackets... and owner approved today as well. One down, one to go.. This is made from 14 gauge cold rolled steel and puts the seat about as low as we can go without cutting the floor pan..

    Video of the seat bracket:

    https://youtu.be/YF7LOe7eLTQ

    Seat test fitted:



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    Don't think I showed this on the other side, but here's how we find the center of the bend for dimensioning the seat bracket..





    Bent up and a test fit...





    Relief cuts made for the next fold.....





    then rolled through the bead roller





    and then the brake is used to fold the outer flange. Here, all welded in place...





    The front hole pattern is laid out to match the drivers bracket, and then some perpendicular lines laid out for locating the rear risers...











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    Got a new apprentice that started this past Saturday.. Her mom even thought it was a good idea!





    She's getting the driver's seat bracket all prepped for SPI epoxy primer, while I worked on finishing the passenger bracket..







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