I just purchased a 1st gen rx7 race car and had to remove the racing seat because it's too big and doesn't go far enough forward for me (I guess I'm to short). The old seat was mounted on rx7 seat rails and we're quite rusty and only locked on one side.

I purchased an ultra shield racing seat that fit me, sparco seat rails and sparco seat brackets to mount it to. The bracket bolted to the side of the aluminum seat then the rails bolted to the brackets.

The old seat mounts in the car are to far apart width wise to bolt the racing seat to so what we did was run a piece of flat iron across the two rear seat mounts and then bolted the rear of the seat rails to that. So now the seat rails bolt to this strip of metal, then go forward and over a cross member.

Problem is that using this mounting the seat is to high and top portion of the seat is coming in contact with the roll bar. My height (5'5") also puts the seat far enough forward for my head to come in contact with other parts of the cage.

What can I do? I've come up with these ideas:

1. I can raise the bolting points of the brackets to the seat another 1/2" but I don't think that's going to cure the problem totally.

2. Can I remove the original rear seat mounts and just bolt my rails to the floor? I would then bolt the front portion of the seat rails to that forward cross member.


Has anyone had this kind of a problem or know of a better way to mount a racing seat?

Thanks for the help.