Hello,
I redid my seats a couple of years ago with new foams and covers from Rimmer
Bros.
The covers were nice, but the foam pieces were not so good. The problem was
that
the foam along the sides of the seat base was not dense enough, and you did not
end up with enough lateral support. The original seat base foams were made of
molded
latex sponge rubber, which is a high-quality and expensive material. As far as
I know,
none of the repro suppliers use this material because of the high cost of the
material
itself and the required tooling.
Doug Braun
'72 Spit
At 12:14 AM 4/1/2005 +0000, you wrote:
>Spit-Listers:
>
>I have been lurking about for a long time and not posting much. Read
>diligently though, keep learning a lot.
>
>I live in the northwest suburbs of Chicago. I just realized that the annual
>VTR meeting is in Rockford, IL at the end of July, the weathers been
>unseasonably warm here, and I need to not only fire up the beast, I need to
>get to that spring to do list like now.
>
>Great recent advice on carpet sets, I'm buying one. Here's my question:
>
>I have the original seats in my '70 MK III. As you might imagine, the foam in
>the seats is just a memory that has mostly ended up in the vacuum. I need new
>foam, and would really like to replace the seat covers because they are not
>looking real good these days either (I attribute this to my lifestyle during
>college in the mid to late 70's). If I get all of the above can I do this job
>my self, or should I get a professional upholstery type person to do the
>seats? The 1970 seats are fairly unique in style, am I going to get good
>quality foam and seat covers that fit properly? Anyone out there that has
>done 1970 seats that can make a recommendation of supplier for the new
>materials?
>
>PS. I tried to post this last summer when the list went down briefly and never
>saw it. Some of the conversation has turned to the same again and I thought
>I'd just add my .02. I have one of Joe Curry's camber compensator's on my car
>and I could not believe the difference after installation. I know the
>compensator is specifically designed for the rear wheel tuck which I never
>probably came close to doing in the 27 years of driving the car before
>installation, but it made the whole feel of the car much more solid and
>tighter. The back end is a little more bouncy now but its a good bouncy. I
>highly recommend one for any MK I, II of III owners out there. Cheap and easy
>to install too.
>
>Thanks for any help,
>
>Ron St. John
>1970 Spitfire Mk III
>FDU 89708 L
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