Howdy all, apparently the previous owner of the Rotus was a size 34 pants kinda guy, I'm a size 38, before the holidays. The car has Kirkey 55150 seats, 15" hip width and 16.5" overall width.
I need at least another inch or so to fit my hip bones. Rather than buying or making new seats, do you see any problem with trimming away the red area, and applying some sort of edge trim over the fresh cuts? This might give me enough room, and still fit the seat covers.
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As for the seat mounting, I'll just say I'm not too impressed with how the PO did it. Maybe it's OK, seems like a lot of room for improvement though.
The rear seat bottom has 2x 1/4" bolts running down thru the frame and extending ~5/8" below the bottom of the car with standard size washers.
The front end of the seat attaches to the original mounts, but they used a ~1" long, 1/2" OD roll pin for the spacer, and 2x M6 screws.
The seat back mounting is still a mystery, there's one point in the upper middle somehow attached to the bulkhead, I haven't found where or how it attaches yet.
I'm thinking I should address both the bolts thru the bottom of the car and the roll-pin front spacers. Originally I thought about using a piece of wood spanning the width of the seat to replace the roll-pins, but maybe I should do 2x wedge shaped spacers running from front to back holes, especially after cutting the sides of the seat. As for the rear mount bolts, not sure what to do there except for using button head screws with just enough length to get the nut on underneath, with jumbo washers.
Maybe I'm overthinking it, seems to be a hobby of mine