I'm nearly 6'3" and my seating position is as advocated by the likes of Bob Bondurant, the Institute of Advanced Motorists (UK) and the training given to the British Police. ie Your seatback should be set to the position where the wrist of your outstretched arm, elbow locked, should touch the 12 o'clock position of the steering wheel with your back fully in contact with the seat...

When I do this my head touches the roof, and I have to drive with the sunroof inside-door open to avoid this - but my hair still touches. I know - my hair is too long... Because I want to use this particular seating style, I can't just lean the seat back like the "oThA hOmEy'S iN tHa tIgHt HoNdAz" around here (when I have to look through the back door window to see his head, that's waaay to far back!

Anyways - I decided to look at lowering the seat and found that the front seat anchors don't need to move and the rear seat anchors could be used to help design lowered brackets.

I removed the seat and removed the riveted rear seat anchors, did some measuring, cutting of 1/8 steel stock, some grinding and some MIG welding... And after four hours I had it - Two factory-quality factory-strength rear seat anchors that made the rear of the seat track 2" lower that before.

The seat is now mounted again, and the seat is full back on the track (almost all the way to the back) so you can't even see the handiwork, but the net result is that I can sit in the 'proper' seating position for maximum car control (per all the folks listed above) and I have 1" gap between the top of my hair and the roof. 2" more headroom, basically.

If anyone is interested I can pos pics of the difference in the brackets. The attachment here is what one of the brackets looks like with the seat all the way forward. You can't see the bracket in the normal seat position.

If there's enough interest I can post detailed pics showing the difference in how the brackets looks.

No more hair gel on the headliner!!!

 

Can you give me the design of these brackets? It would be very appreciated. I hate having to keep the seat way back to keep my head off the roof and then have to reach like a mad man to get a hold of the stearing wheel!

Thanks in advance for the specs!!!