[TR] Seats

[Carl-TR]

Does anyone have a link to the "how to / what's needed"?

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On Apr 2, 2019, 11:34 PM, at 11:34 PM, Rye Livingston <ryel at mac.com> wrote:
>Yes, I installed Miata seats in my TR3A last year and they are great.
> Yes they are more comfortable, but for me I was even more concerned
>about the flex in the stock seat. During some spirited driving,
>including the autocross at Triumphest, when going around a hard corner
>seat back would flex and roll and virtually pour me out of the seat.  I
>was trying to stabilize myself by holding on to the steering wheel, but
>it was the stock banjo style and it would flex too.  I'm running a 7/8"
>front sway bar, 205/60R15 Goodrich Tires on 6 1/2" Panasport Wheels, so
>the car is corning really well, but the stock seat just wasn't working,
>and same for the passenger seat.  In a weekend rally with my son and as
>passenger I was holding onto the outside of the door to keep myself in
>place in the turns.
>
>So I installed some Miata seats and got a Moto-lita steering wheel
>which does't flex, and it's transformed the whole car.  Just amazing.
>
>This is a photo along California Coast least year after I installed the
>seats and steering wheel, and was going up to the All Triumph Drive In,
>in Salem Oregon.  There is a sheep skin cover on the passenger seat for
>Dixie Dog who was my co-pilot. She that brown blob rolling around in
>the sand.
>
>
>Rye
>PH: 530-FIND-RYE
>
>On Apr 02, 2019, at 04:21 PM, David Friedlander <forzion7 at gmail.com>
>wrote:
>
>Hey all you purists out there, cover your ears!
>
>Will a TR3A accommodate Miata seats like a TR6 does? 
>Looks like the components necessary to rebuild TR3A 
>seats from scratch add up to a fair amount of $$ but 
>not a great deal of comfort for the money. I seem to 
>recall that TR6's would take a 1997 or prior Miata model 
>year seat but what about the TR3? Anyone done it?
>
>Any feedback (OK, most feedback  :- ) ) appreciated!
>
>Dave Friedlander
>Maine
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