Hi CCrunner , Well I am 6'2" also and and in hind sight , may be a 1-2 in stretch would have been nice , I think the best way would be to add in the doors , cut in the middle and add the length there . now its too late , i would have to redo the frame, torque tube and a host of other item . I have tried many things to get ever mm of room . when i tried the original car with original seat with fixed steering , it was so hard to get in . but i removed the seat and tried to sit strait oi the ground and it was not bad . I have encountered that with my esprit S1 , could no fit in , so i had the seat bottom cut out and redone so it looked like a seat but i was sitting on the ground.
here i have gone a similar way , i decided to go as load as you can go , up to a point where i also did like in some lotus 7 where they notch the floor to add 2 inch depth .
as mentioned before i decided to go with a home made aluminum bomber seat, which would allow me to make it low , i plan to use kindergarten floor mat as the padding for the seat .
here is the way i designed it .
I had an old water heater tank due to go to the dump and i took the wrapping off , very light sheet metal , works good and easier to find than the think cardboard .
used the same idea as for the bomber and started to make a shape
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a bit of trimming later
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once i got a good shape , i transferred to aluminium 1 mm thick, make a mirror image et voila
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I am using little piece of ash wood to make reinforcement while keeping weight down
once i have the rear 100% , i will finalise the bends, glue the kid mat , cover in vinyl ..
next step , master cylinder and may be test drive