Seems this weekend was spent going back over things after discovering an issue with my fuel tank height. The trunk tub would not sit right for me at the rear end of the car. Turned out the tub was hitting the top back edge of the tank. Ended up taking the tank down and adding spacers to my studs to lower the tank and all is good now after reinstalling it.
While I worked on that, I noticed another issue that I didn't see before. My rear brake line going over the rear differential did not have the clearance it once did to the trunk tub, went unnoticed till today. Realized I lost clearance when setting the ride height close to where it should be a while back when I installed my driveshaft, this lowered the frame to axle reducing my clearance. Where it was 3-4" is now 1" and will need to modify or re-do this brake line.
As some of you know, I will be using aluminum cobra style seats from Ultra-Shield race products. My plan is to side mount these seats on sliders and to fabricate the base plates to accomplish this. I actually found a base plate that is perfect for what I had in mind. Most race seat brackets have legs or something to match stock mounting points. The base plate I found is for a Porsche 911 by Planted that has no legs and adapts to three different width sliders. One of the slider patterns fits our seat tab dimensions exactly. This will allow me to use a 16" wide slider and side mounts for the 17" wide aluminum seat. Pics of base plates and side brackets below. My seats should be showing up after the first of the year. This setup is going to make it very simple and clears the hand brake handle. Base plates will be raised on 1/2" spacers.
