Hey Guys, big dude here 460 pounds and dropping. My S5 Rx-7 is my motivation for losing weight and I have already past 5 weeks of keeping to my diet/workout.

Anyway, I am interested in making as much room on the driver side as possible. I am planning on picking up a NRG 320mm flat bottom which should be smaller than original, but I can't find a decent Thin Hub.

While looking through the forums, I saw something about spacers that help bring the wheel up higher as well, but can't seem to find specifics on it.

Lastly, how much fabrication is it to bolt the seat onto the floor. It will only ever be me driving it as my ol' lady can't drive a stick to save her first-born. (2 clutches in the same car, so I gave up.)

Thanks guys, I am sure the information is here somewhere, I will keep digging.

 

Not sure how a spacer could raise the wheel, unless it was something like the stocker where the center is not concentric with the rim. This would raise the wheel when pointed straight but make it lower at 180° turn...so, not that great.

I'd consider mounting the seat to the floor a rather big fab job, assuming you mean removing the cross bars and sitting all the way down on the pan. Maybe consider getting a fiberglass race shell and using that as your downsizing continues, make a more permanent decision later.

BTW, I was born in Eau Claire.
Mainly because at the time Menomonie had a crap hospital (according to Mom).

 

Yeah that is what I thought about the spacer, and I hear the turboII seats are a bit smaller so I may go that route.

Problem with Fiberglass seat do they make them where they would fit me?

I was born up in Burnsville, MN - shipped down to AZ for 3 years and came back to the midwest. I miss having rustless cars.

 

Dunno, I was thinking of something like these but I have no clue how your body mass is distributed.

Swapping seats is a real PITA, I'm struggling with this same issue on my Z.
An inch here, an inch there...makes all the difference in the world.
Until you stabilize at a "final" size, there's no way to actually fit a seat that will work with all the touch points (wheel, pedals, shifter, mainly)...the pictured seats are cheap and probably simple to mount and intended as a stopgap, not a final solution.

I've tried four distinctly different FC OEM seats and much prefer the base cloth units in my '90 GTU over any of the others.

 

Cool, that gives me enough reason to shy away from changing out seats. I will just work on getting a smaller wheel and concentrate on my weight reduction.

Thank you!