<html><body><div>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. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: SFNSText, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; display: inline !important; float: none;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: SFNSText, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; display: inline !important; float: none;">I'm running a 7/8" front sway bar, 205/60R15 Goodrich Tires on </span><span data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: SFNSText, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; display: inline !important; float: none;" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: SFNSText, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); float: none; display: inline !important;">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.</span></div><div><span data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: SFNSText, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; display: inline !important; float: none;" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: SFNSText, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); float: none; display: inline !important;"><br data-mce-bogus="1"></span></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><img src="cid:2cb8447f-0bcb-48a1-b51b-791ef632a332@icloud.com" class="_auto-scale " alt="ATDIweb-05.jpg" title="ATDIweb-05.jpg" style="margin: 10px 10px 10px 0px;" data-inline-image="true" data-mce-style="margin: 10px 10px 10px 0px;"></div><div class="x-apple-signature"><img src="cid:bf7527fd-cb30-43f9-a68e-34bb9a54ff08@icloud.com" class="_auto-scale " alt="ATDIweb-04.jpg" title="ATDIweb-04.jpg" style="margin: 10px 10px 10px 0px;" data-inline-image="true" data-mce-style="margin: 10px 10px 10px 0px;"></div><div class="x-apple-signature">Rye<br>PH: 530-FIND-RYE</div><div><br>On Apr 02, 2019, at 04:21 PM, David Friedlander <forzion7@gmail.com> wrote:<br><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div class="msg-quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: large; color: #000099;" data-mce-style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: large; color: #000099;">Hey all you purists out there, cover your ears!<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: large; color: #000099;" data-mce-style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: large; color: #000099;"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: large; color: #000099;" data-mce-style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: large; color: #000099;">Will a TR3A accommodate Miata seats like a TR6 does? </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: large; color: #000099;" data-mce-style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: large; color: #000099;">Looks like the components necessary to rebuild TR3A </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: large; color: #000099;" data-mce-style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: large; color: #000099;">seats from scratch add up to a fair amount of $$ but </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: large; color: #000099;" data-mce-style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: large; color: #000099;">not a great deal of comfort for the money. I seem to </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: large; color: #000099;" data-mce-style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: large; color: #000099;">recall that TR6's would take a 1997 or prior Miata model </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: large; color: #000099;" data-mce-style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: large; color: #000099;">year seat but what about the TR3? Anyone done it?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: large; color: #000099;" data-mce-style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: large; color: #000099;"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: large; color: #000099;" data-mce-style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: large; color: #000099;">Any feedback (OK, most feedback :- ) ) appreciated!<br><br>Dave Friedlander</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: large; color: #000099;" data-mce-style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: large; color: #000099;">Maine</div></div><div class="_stretch"><span class="body-text-content">** <a href="mailto:triumphs@autox.team.net" data-mce-href="mailto:triumphs@autox.team.net">triumphs@autox.team.net</a> **<br><br>Donate: <a href="http://www.team.net/donate.html" data-mce-href="http://www.team.net/donate.html">http://www.team.net/donate.html</a><br>Archive: <a href="http://www.team.net/pipermail/triumphs" data-mce-href="http://www.team.net/pipermail/triumphs">http://www.team.net/pipermail/triumphs</a> <a href="http://www.team.net/archive" data-mce-href="http://www.team.net/archive">http://www.team.net/archive</a><br><br>Unsubscribe/Manage: <a href="http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/triumphs/ryel@mac.com" data-mce-href="http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/triumphs/ryel@mac.com">http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/triumphs/ryel@mac.com</a><br></span></div></div></blockquote></div></body></html>