Seats & Harnesses

With the dashboard and instruments back in place the car re-started first time which was very good news. i.e. We had re-connected all the wiring and not cut out anything too important!

Focus turned to re-fitting the seats.  The bolts for these are very awkward to reach now the roll cage is in place.  

 Luke 3" wide 6 point FIA spec harnesses have been installed and adjusted to fit.  Roll cage padding has been placed in a few areas to stop us baning our heads/helmets on the roll cage and provide a little bid of elbow padding.

A removable steering wheel boss has also been added to make getting in and out of the car easier. 

Interior Strip and Race Seats Installed

Next stage of the conversion is to strip the interior and fit racing seats, steering wheel and harnesses.  The driving position needs to be fixed before the roll cage is installed and is a compromise position for the two drivers.  The carpets, seats and seat-belts were first removed.

The Porsche steering wheel with air-bag mechanism was removed and replaced with a Sparco Suede Racing.  The Porsche PCM radio / sat-nav unit is still in the dashboard and will be removed soon.

 

The race seats replacing the standard Porsche ones are Corbeau Pro-Series seats which  are embroidered with the Boxster racing logo's. The Boxster seats and runners were extremely heavy with their electric motors and heating elements.  These were sold to a man restoring a VW camper van!

Additional eye-bolts are fitted through the chasiss with spreader plates underneath.  These provide fixing points for the fitting of 6-point FIA approved Luke harnesses.  

Custom adaptor plates were made up from 6mm aluminium to allow the Corbeau seat mounts to be fitted to the chassis. Aluminium tread plate has also been installed to provide a solid floor in the footwells.