Really should not have bought GTA V
Despite that eating lots of my time I've been busy still on the car.
Having looked at a load of seats and not found any I'm happy with I've decided I'll make my own, so made the first rough shape prototype out of fibreboard and tape then made this functional prototype out of steel, already got a load of changes I plan on making to it but as its steel its very easy.
Once I'm happy with the seats I'll either fab them from aluminium or take a mould and make them from fibreglass.
So with the seat in I sat in the car and made Brumm noises while 'steering'
Surprisingly comfortable actually!
Currently its sitting on a spacer to make it equivalent to being on rails but I'm not sure if I'm going to bother, I'm 5'8" and with it touching the rear bulkhead the pedals are perfect and they're as far forward as they can be.
So I lined up the pedals and after trying a few positions got them somewhere I was comfortable, axis of the steering passes just left of the middle of the brake pedal. I think between the clutch and brake is ideal but I just can't manage that.
As it stands the throttle is limited by the chassis but having measured both our daily' cars the travel is the same. I can always lop the corner off if I need more travel. I won't be panelling that section though!
The randomly shaped sheet of aluminium btw was an off cut used to fake up the 'tunnel' side so I could see how much room I had on the other (clutch) side too.
and then lined up the steering wheel
Then weld up the steering column
And make up spacers for under the pedals as without them the pedal pivot sits below the 'floor' level. They'll be welded to the chassis later hence the powder coat having been removed.
I'll need to make a bit of a chamfer out of the top of the pedal bracket for the steering column linkage but as the pedal box is out of an SPF which is a (near) copy of the original GT40 but fabricated (welded) steel rather than cast (IIRC Magnesium alloy) it's massively overkill anyway.
Also note in that last picture the plastic ring. This came from the steering column and it looks like GM basically filled the middle of the joint with plastic so that there were only two (~4mm) pins effectively preventing the column from sliding down (they break easily so it can telescope down in a crash). Obviously when taken apart these break off. Without the plastic it's a sliding fit and I'm not sure what to do, I was thinking maybe when it comes to permanently fixing it in place to inject araldite into the hole. Not sure how I could replicate the plastic GM originally used.