some time ago i made the seat brackets which allow fitting of standard commodore seats and runners, they attach to the original outer floor mounts and then have plates under the floor for the inner mounts.
so this was all fine and dandy, used the required thickness or thicker for the brackets to satisfy the rta guidelines etc .... so in the below picture you can see the original bracket that i made.
i spoke to the engineer and he said all i needed was some sort of strengthing support for fowards and backwards, eg, if someone rams you up the bum and the seat has to support the impact of you going backwards then it would just twist the brackets, so i have put the 2mm tin plate on the outside of it figuring 1. it will resolve this issue and 2. it will make the outside look a bit tidier.
so i welded her all up and cut where it needed it and here it is on the seat - note this is the side you don't see
now installed in the car with the seat at its highest setting
and now right down
please note its not going to stay this colour, thats just to stop rust!
so i have to do the same thing on the passenger side outer and im all done with the seats ....
also purchased a b&m shifter which i'll be installing over the next day or so, i wanted to get the seat back in first to make sure the shifter gets located in the best spot that suits me as i will have the seat right back in the ute and i want to be able to easily reach the shifter once the car is in drive....
the shifter i got is the Megashifter and for those that haven't seen them, they have a pull up handle to move from park to reverse neutral or drive etc .... then once your in drive you simply ratchet the handle back to go down the gears or fowards to go up ... you can ratchet to neutral but have to be in drive if you want to use the lever to go back to reverse or park.
i reckon they are a great option for a street car because for anyone that wants to just get in and drive it like an auto it can, but then if you want to have more control over it you have the ratchet mechanism for that and you really can't stuff up with it, you just bang it forward then let off and it will be ready for the next gear then, no shifting past the gear you want!
anyways i'll put some pics up in the next few days of that.
i've also just recieved a heap of electrical bits and pieces for it, things like interior light door switches and some tail light globe fittings as i only had one of them out of all the wiring loom so i needed to get more, and i also wanted to get new ones just so i know they should be hassle free for ages.
Woodzy was great in pointing me in the right direction for a supplier of what i needed!
I've decided that i will have the stop/tail lights as normal then in the blinker i will also incorporate a reversing light by the use of a twin filament 21w/21w bulb so the blinker and reverse light are as bright as one another.
last on the list was some new connectors for the H4 headlights, which i really didn't need but they are brand new and i wanted to get as much of that stuff new as possible and then it will be spliced into the VR Commodore wiring loom.
