[Healeys] Tall guy in a BJ8

tomfelts at windstream.net tomfelts at windstream.net
Wed Jan 2 06:54:30 MST 2008


Bet you don't drive with the top up!!:)  

Tom 
> 
> From: Bob Haskell <rchaskell at earthlink.net>
> Date: 2008/01/02 Wed AM 06:33:54 EST
> CC: Healeys Newsgroup <healeys at autox.team.net>
> Subject: Re: [Healeys] Tall guy in a BJ8
> 
> Carl,
> 
> I'm 6' 9" and don't fit in the BJ8 or the 100 (darn).  I have a BT7 so this 
> may not help too much.  I welded another piece of flat steel to the gearbox 
> side of the seat bottom.  This allowed me to move the seat closer to the 
> gearbox, about an inch.  That moved the seat back away from the wheel well 
> enough so I could then move the seat back. I welded some additional flat 
> stock onto the tabs the seat back mounts to tilt the seat back a bit. I 
> then drilled a new set of holes in the seat frame for mounting to the slides.
> 
> For the "shorter" cushion, I used a new cushion (foam) from Heritage and 
> drilled some blind holes on the bottom of the foam using a hole saw to 
> soften the cushion - per Norm Nock's Tech book.  Question - anyone know how 
> to seal the foam so little bits of foam stop falling on to the carpet?
> 
> I have a dished Moto-Lita wheel that came with the car.  Yes, it's a bad 
> design in that it blocks the two small gauges, but the dish gives me more 
> leg room. Does Mike Lempert make dished wheels? Mike?
> 
> Bob
> '62 BT7
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