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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Miata seats in Healey at 2015 Conclave…<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><img width=2111 height=1188 style='width:21.9916in;height:12.375in' id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image003.jpg@01D5642A.CB4A8400" alt="A red car parked on the side of a road
Description automatically generated"><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><u>Al Fuller<o:p></o:p></u></b></p><p class=MsoNormal>Fuller Compliance, Inc.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Quality Systems, Software Quality, Validation + 21 CFR Part 11<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> Bruce Steele <healeybruce@roadrunner.com> <br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, September 05, 2019 6:39 PM<br><b>To:</b> 'Perry' <healeyguy@aol.com>; 'skip saunders' <tfsbj7@gmail.com>; Healeys@autox.team.net; 'Al Fuller' <alfuller194@gmail.com><br><b>Subject:</b> RE: [Healeys] headrest<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif'>I agree with Perry. Unless your wife is VERY short, a headrest mounted to the seat back will have to be (rough guess) a foot above the top of the seat to be at head level. There’s a reason you never see that in a modern car; the physics of mounting it that high, assuming the legs are even long enough, are not in your favor to provide any sort of protection—it’s simply too long a lever. And, as Perry notes, the seat back structure is insubstantial; it’s just a concave piece of sheet metal. There is no top bar you can drill through as in the video. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif'>Your idea of captive nuts welded onto the seat backs suggests that the whole mounting apparatus would be external to the upholstery. Again, given the lever effect, and the metal substructure, I would be very concerned that the whole assembly would be, again to use Perry’s term, flimsy. The only option I can see that would have some structural integrity is to weld tubes onto the back of the seat backs, which would require a completely reupholstering the backs. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif'>If you want headrests, and a more comfortable seat to boot, I’d think it would be a whole lot easier to just replace the seats with ones from a Mazda Miata. If I recall correctly, Al Fuller did this in one of his Healeys.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Bruce Steele<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Brea, CA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>1960 BN7<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> Healeys [<a href="mailto:healeys-bounces@autox.team.net">mailto:healeys-bounces@autox.team.net</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Perry via Healeys<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, September 05, 2019 2:53 PM<br><b>To:</b> healeylist <<a href="mailto:Healeys@autox.team.net">Healeys@autox.team.net</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Healeys] headrest<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Skip<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>There is next to no substantial structure to support the headrest, especially in a collision situation. The seat backs are, well you know how strong they are. Lets just say, flimsy. Maybe a properly constructed and mounted roll bar with a head rest pad would be more appropriate. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>This has its own issues, good and bad, in an accident. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Perry<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sent from <a href="https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986">Mail</a> for Windows 10<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:tfsbj7@gmail.com">skip saunders</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Thursday, September 5, 2019 5:35 PM<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:Healeys@autox.team.net">healeylist</a><br><b>Subject: </b>[Healeys] headrest<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks to everyone for the suggestions on buying parts at a discount. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I’ve another question: Has anyone installed headrests in the Healey 3000?. I’ve a BJ8, my wife would like headrests. Is there a kit suitable for adding headrests to Healey seats?.... I’m tempted by this arrangement:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://www.extremeterrain.com/corbeau-baja-bench-seat-headrest-black-vinyl-8717-yj-tj-jk.html?utm_content=XT%20Interior%20-%20Seats%7CCorbeau&T5_Var4=J109565&intl=0&utm_campaign=XTW+Wrangler+No+Vehicle+High&dialogtech=ppc&utm_source=google-pla&utm_medium=shopping&T5_Var2=shopping&gclid=Cj0KCQjw5MLrBRClARIsAPG0WGwlfZ3zqANKdQb6Xo6n_5IXMBi_Z_NlIHm-bgnpKF8qYkvh2f1ghDsaAoozEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds">https://www.extremeterrain.com/corbeau-baja-bench-seat-headrest-black-vinyl-8717-yj-tj-jk.html?utm_content=XT%20Interior%20-%20Seats%7CCorbeau&T5_Var4=J109565&intl=0&utm_campaign=XTW+Wrangler+No+Vehicle+High&dialogtech=ppc&utm_source=google-pla&utm_medium=shopping&T5_Var2=shopping&gclid=Cj0KCQjw5MLrBRClARIsAPG0WGwlfZ3zqANKdQb6Xo6n_5IXMBi_Z_NlIHm-bgnpKF8qYkvh2f1ghDsaAoozEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>using guide tubes such as used in this video:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq91ZpOVvEY">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq91ZpOVvEY</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>and perhaps using this bracket (or similar home-brew) to establish strength for the bottom of the headrests:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://www.npdlink.com/product/bracket-accessory-sport-seat-headrest-to-fit-on/105113/200167">https://www.npdlink.com/product/bracket-accessory-sport-seat-headrest-to-fit-on/105113/200167</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>My thoughts involve welding captured nuts into the existing metal seat back frame. Then fabricating a bracket assembly that can be mounted to the seat back into the captured nuts….and have the whole headrest attachment something that can be added/removed as the mood fits the situation…<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Anyone else have other ideas?....better ideas?.... actual experience?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>-skip-<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>