Build Day - The seat is here

Saturday was a 'major' build day and we managed to get the almost the entire team together to see how everybody fit in the car with the new Corbeau Forza 2 seat. Despite a range of heights and weights, everybody fit fairly well. It looks like Ben will need to add some padding, but a lot less than we were imagining. The Supra bracket fit well, although the slider is a little tight. Hopefully it will loosen up with use. We'll also check all of the seat bolts to make sure it's not binding.

It does look like a Gurney bump may be required to make sure nobody's helmet rubs the ceiling. This should be pretty easy since we need to fill in the hole vacated by the sunroof. How many horsepower will this racing feature add? 20? 30?



We also put some tape up to simulate a cross style door bar. That will make getting into and out of the car a little more challenging, but a cross type door bar looks a lot better than the traditional parallel style. We also need to look at a removable steering wheel although the car has, seriously, electric tilt wheel, so when we remove the motor perhaps we can modify it to tilt up out of the way a little?



We also got the hydraulic pump for the fan taken apart so that we could reinstall the housing and put the belts back together. We need to fit a smaller accessory belt on the car, bypassing the AC and hydraulic pump that we removed, but the belt routing will work really well. The cooler for the hydraulic system will be reused, probably as an oil cooler or a bigger power steering pump. Yeah for free parts!

We also pulled another 10 lbs out the car as well with a few hopefully unneeded computers: Air bag controller, cooling fan controller, keyless entry receiver, etc. The airbag controller was about 4 lbs by itself! We're up to about 450 lbs pulled from the car.

Overall a good day. The next major project is the cage. Tubing it on order and we should be building it in about a month.