OK, this may sound utterly stupid (I'll explain it later), but can anyone tell me if it's possible to build a (UK) CP-series seat on a CF/CR-series seat frame?
The parts manual shows that they have very different constructions, e.g. among other differences, the CP-series has various wire frames to support the side cushions. What is not clear is whether the basic frame is different. Different part numbers, but how different are they really?
Have you, dear reader, ever seen both a CP and CR/CF series frame naked? If so, I'd love to hear from you! Incidentally, I have a pair of both types of seat, but I don't want to destroy the covering in the process of investigating (and the covers will certainly tear if I try to remove them).
You may well ask why I'd want to something so apparently pointless. Well here's why. I have a CP-series TR6, and way back in the mists of time I decided to 'upgrade' the seats by replacing them with later CF/CR seats, so that I could have a head restraint. I've always missed the more comfortable (to me) CP seats, with their deeper bucket/side supports. What I really want is a CP seat with a CF head restraint. The obvious solution is to weld a channel onto the CP seat frame to accept a CF head restraint, but that's illegal here (at least without paying a registered auto inspection engineer an exhorbitant ~USD400 to approve it), and would invalidate my insurance if ever discovered. It is legal however to fit the later seat to the earlier car (as I have done), and also to upholster the later seat with different cushions etc. So I wonder if I (or rather my local trimmer) could do this.
Any thoughts? I do know I could (in theory) install MX5/Miata seats, or presumably any number of aftermarket seats. Even so I would like to have CP seats with a head restraint (stamps little foot). Also, non-TR6 seats would *probably* be illegal...
Cheers,
John
The parts manual shows that they have very different constructions, e.g. among other differences, the CP-series has various wire frames to support the side cushions. What is not clear is whether the basic frame is different. Different part numbers, but how different are they really?
Have you, dear reader, ever seen both a CP and CR/CF series frame naked? If so, I'd love to hear from you! Incidentally, I have a pair of both types of seat, but I don't want to destroy the covering in the process of investigating (and the covers will certainly tear if I try to remove them).
You may well ask why I'd want to something so apparently pointless. Well here's why. I have a CP-series TR6, and way back in the mists of time I decided to 'upgrade' the seats by replacing them with later CF/CR seats, so that I could have a head restraint. I've always missed the more comfortable (to me) CP seats, with their deeper bucket/side supports. What I really want is a CP seat with a CF head restraint. The obvious solution is to weld a channel onto the CP seat frame to accept a CF head restraint, but that's illegal here (at least without paying a registered auto inspection engineer an exhorbitant ~USD400 to approve it), and would invalidate my insurance if ever discovered. It is legal however to fit the later seat to the earlier car (as I have done), and also to upholster the later seat with different cushions etc. So I wonder if I (or rather my local trimmer) could do this.
Any thoughts? I do know I could (in theory) install MX5/Miata seats, or presumably any number of aftermarket seats. Even so I would like to have CP seats with a head restraint (stamps little foot). Also, non-TR6 seats would *probably* be illegal...
Cheers,
John