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<p class="MsoNormal">It is a popular conversion for the TR6 (I have them in my TR6) and the only thing needed for proper installation is a pair of brackets to adapt the miata seat runners to the TR6 floor where there are cage nuts to take the seat runners.
For the TR6 these brackets are available from several sources ( I made my own) but I’m not aware of adapters for the TR3 floors.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If you buy a pair of otherwise good seats with ratty covers Mr Mike’s will provide a set of custom covers and everything you need to fit them to the Miata seats.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Triumphs <triumphs-bounces@autox.team.net> <b>On Behalf Of
</b>Carl-TR<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, April 3, 2019 10:40 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Triumph Mail List <triumphs@autox.team.net><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [TR] Seats<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Does anyone have a link to the "how to / what's needed"?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Sent from <a href="http://www.bluemail.me/r?b=14726">BlueMail</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Apr 2, 2019, at 11:34 PM, Rye Livingston <<a href="mailto:ryel@mac.com" target="_blank">ryel@mac.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black;background:white">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.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Rye<br>
PH: 530-FIND-RYE<o:p></o:p></p>
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On Apr 02, 2019, at 04:21 PM, David Friedlander <<a href="mailto:forzion7@gmail.com">forzion7@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#000099">Will a TR3A accommodate Miata seats like a TR6 does? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#000099">Looks like the components necessary to rebuild TR3A <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#000099">seats from scratch add up to a fair amount of $$ but <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#000099">not a great deal of comfort for the money. I seem to <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#000099">recall that TR6's would take a 1997 or prior Miata model <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#000099">year seat but what about the TR3? Anyone done it?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#000099">Any feedback (OK, most feedback :- ) ) appreciated!<br>
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