Been working on fixing the floors and installing the Acura buckets. They're mixed together since I don't want to repair the floors only to cut things out or restore complicated features that aren't used anymore.
First thing I did was get a spot weld cutter and start drilling out the spot welds on the passengers side between the under floor braces and the floor itself. Other than some large concentrations of welds near the seat mounts that went pretty smoothly as long as I didn't get too aggressive too quickly with the cutter and have it skip out of the center punch on the weld. Got both bad sections of the floor out in about 2hrs of work with other guys standing around talking about stupid stuff we've done in cars as part of a guys group that meets in my garage on Thursdays.
Over the few days after that I've been working on mounting the drivers side seat since I need it first to bleed the brakes. Y'all saw my first attempt at mounting the seat and it ended up too far forward and too high. After a major screw up where I drilled a full set of mounting holes 1.25in too over and ended up off center from the steering wheel I regrouped and came up with a new mount plan that gets me seated pretty much exactly where I want. I've got maybe 0.75in of rearward travel from comfortable for me and even at full up on the seat my head doesn't hit the headliner unless I put the seat back full upright. Quite happy. Need to get some 0.25 plate to be happy with the mount strength but the basic design is intact and even uses the original mounting points for the front. The rear I'll have to make a new version of that bent metal bracket but it should be more than strong enough.
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Central TEXAS Sleeper
Experimental Physicist
'64 Riviera T-type (4.2L Turbo6, 4L80E, L67 EFI system, Custom suspension and brake bits)
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