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The seat saga continues....

SO, I decide that I'm going to tap the two little flanges on the parking brake tower down from a horizontal position to a vertical position, back into the tin from whence they were cut.... These are the pieces that are interfering with installing the passenger side seat "easily"...HAH! This will require a new surround piece as T.Solo pointed out above, AND a new boot retainer, unless I want to bend my original up...which I don't for some odd reason.....the boot is plenty flexible enuf to fit the new 90 degree bend.... I'll just add about 1/8" to the width of the retainer to compensate for rolling it over, to cover the thickness of the boot while doing so. This dimension would never have been in the original plans!

I found a big piece of .050" aluminum sheet that I've had so long I no longer recall from whence it came.... that will serve as perfect material to make both pieces from.

I cut out paper patterns for the surround, until I got comfortable with minor adjustments etc...fitting to the carpet.....

AND tonite I cut out the basic shape for the surround, nibbled the edges such that I could put about an 1/8" "fold over" on all but the top edge, to give the piece some rigidity and also dull the edges that could potentially contact other bits, like radio antenna cables, carpet.....

Have never done any work like this, but have watched body guys, tons of work on TV with fab'ing stuff up, so got out my hammers and my hunk-o-steel plate that has nice crisp edges on it, and started folding away.....the straight sections were easy, and the curved sections required some finessing with the ball section of a ball peen hammer, but it all went SUPER.....right up to the point where I figured out that I had folded the edges the wrong way....DOH!!!!

Have I created a prototype piece for a RH drive car?????

Oh well, I can still use this piece as stock to make the boot surround from.......

Take 2 coming up!!! OR is that RevB.....since we're still in proto production....!?

Ciao!

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