greggers
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| posted on 18/2/08 at 02:05 PM |
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Seating Advice
Hi,
I've been reading through posts on this site for some time and found it to be a great source of information.
We recently bought a more or less finished MK Indy that we are in the process of modifying and rebuilding to meet our requirements in readiness for
this year's track days.
One of our modifications was to fit a full roll cage sourced from MK which we have now welded in. The only problem is with the current seats in
(Cobras) there isn't enough room for me with a helmet on!
A friend has an Indy with the bare MK seats fitted with a full cage and I have no problems in that, therefore by fitting something similar I should be
OK. I've found Triton seats mentioned on here several times and am keen to get a set, but I have a couple of questions....
Can they be fitted to runners and if so which ones have people used?
I assume the seats come without any mounting holes so I am free to decide the angle at which they are mounted?
Thanks in advance for your help!
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coozer
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| posted on 18/2/08 at 02:23 PM |
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Welcome to the fold.
Tritons seats have 4 M8 threaded bosses bonded into the base and plenty of folk on here have used OEM runners out of Metros, Escort etc.
You can simply space the runners to get the desired angle.
Steve
1972 V8 Jago
1980 Z750
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greggers
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| posted on 18/2/08 at 02:46 PM |
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Thanks very much for your prompt reply... I'll be sending a U2U to Mr Triton Very shortly!
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iscmatt
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| posted on 18/2/08 at 04:58 PM |
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i changed from cobra to fibreglass for sva reasons, i simply modified the runners i had - the bolts were slightly closer together. Just drilled two
holes and all is well and good
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greggers
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| posted on 18/2/08 at 05:47 PM |
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Sounds like I won't even have to go scavenging round scrap yards then! Excelent!
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ned
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| posted on 18/2/08 at 06:21 PM |
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you save height with grp shell seats but bear in mind that often adding runners will lose you a lot of what you have gained.
Ned.
beware, I've got yellow skin
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Triton
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| posted on 18/2/08 at 08:29 PM |
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If you use landrover runners you won't add too much height as bum perching section is 20mm proud of the feet where the fixings are..
Still no damn sparky today!!! doing my head a power of good....not!
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Valtra
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| posted on 18/2/08 at 11:21 PM |
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try these they are very good quality.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300197518556&ssPageName=ADME:B:FSEL:GB:1123
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Fozzie
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| posted on 19/2/08 at 12:38 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Valtra
try these they are very good quality.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300197518556&ssPageName=ADME:B:FSEL:GB:1123
Valtra...that ^^^^ IS our Triton..... 
Fozzie
'Racing is Life!...anything before or after is just waiting'....Steve McQueen
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Valtra
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| posted on 2/3/08 at 12:57 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Fozzie
quote:
Originally posted by Valtra
try these they are very good quality.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300197518556&ssPageName=ADME:B:FSEL:GB:1123
Valtra...that ^^^^ IS our Triton.....
Fozzie
At the time I bought them I tried to contact him but couldn't through these pages so found these on Ebay. Assumed this was a different company
(person), non the less they are good seats .Butwader-eye-no
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Triton
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| posted on 10/3/08 at 09:46 PM |
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A local Mini owner has used Suzuki Swift seat runners on the wide seats and as canny as a canny thing will fit my other seats as they share same
design base.......
When available I will post a picture of them fitted to the seats and the seats fitted in his convertible clubman.
Mark
My Daughter has taken over production of the damn fine Triton race seats and her contact email is emmatrs@live.co.uk.
www.tritonraceseats.com
www.hairyhedgehog.com
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