My solution to having no headroom in my S14.

Yeah, not the first guy to have this problem. My sunroof makes it worlds worse. My hair touches the damn headliner when I drive my car. Wearing a helmet is a nightmare. I have tried a few times to get my drivers seat lower without much success. I finally decided to bite the bullet and deal with it once and for all..

I am obviously not finished yet but it's a good start.

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nice, how much clearance you have from the cat and exhaust down below?

Not much. Exhaust isn't bolted up yet but a quick check says around an inch. No cat BTW. That's a resonator.

you are correct, i was typing from my phone and i didnt wanna scroll back up lol, im lazy

Fair enough

lol you putting the seat back in today?
you still using your 350 seats?

Keeping the 350z seats. I stripped the drivers one down to the skeleton. I am going to use universal sliders from summit so I gotta wait for those then build mounting points. Then prime/seam seal/undercoat. It will be a good week before there is a seat in there I would guess.

oh ok, i was just wondering what you seats you were mounting in and how you were doing it

sweet...

damN! thats awesome!!!

Thanks Liz. The Summit sliders are out for sure. They only move about 5" and are super short. Not a good fit for what I need. Looks like jeep YJ rails may work perfectly. They look exactly like sparco/omp rails. I am going to look at the S13 rail I have again to see if I want to try to make em work.

I am really regretting modifying the oem z33 seat rails now. Oh well.

Nice!!

How much room does this gain for you??

Very cool, i remember you telling me you were gonna do this, Nice to see your getting out and working on it.

Yeah, it was pretty damn easy honestly. Too bad I ran out of gas on Saturday afternoon and had to wait until Monday to get another tank. D'oh.

As for actual real world gained space. I don't know until I get the seat mounted. That flat part that drops down from the top of the tunnel to the flattened floor is a few inches if memory serves. I never did measure it.

I am going to tinker with it tonight, I will see how low I think I can go. If I could live without a seat slider it would be insanely low.

Actually looks like I may pick up a few inches of room. I actually sat the seat frame in the car with the seat cushion and I was so low it was uncomfortable from a visibility standpoint. I was pissed that I hacked up the oem z33 rails because they would have put the seat even lower, but it appears you can end up too low.