Miata Seat Site Up-date Completed.....

[BobbyD]

Miata Seat Site Update Completed.....

For those of you who have been asking, I finally finished all my site updates showing everything you did and/or didn't want to know about installing Miata seats in a TR6 along with leather covers and headrest speakers. Any typos, corrections, clarifications are always appreciated.

 

[Brosky]

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Great write up Bob!!!

I'll bet they are comfortable too. Thanks for sharing the details.

 

[mrv8q]

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Really well done, Bob! You used up your yearly allotment of colored arrows. It must have taken twice as long, to take all the pix. Well done!

 

[Guest]

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Bob, great write-up!! As the original owner of a 1992 Miata, I am always happy to see its growing effect on the sports car world. As anyone who has read any history on the Miata, it RESURRECTED the affordable sportscar as we know it. We owe it a debt of gratitude, just as the world owes a debt of gratitude to the MGTC (bringing the sportscar to America), then the Triumph TR-2 (first affordable performance sports car).

One word of warning on the Miata seats. That dang spring has about 4 millions pounds of pressure behind it. The first time I installed my tonneau, I leaned down to tilt the seat forward to fold the tonneau in behind it. When I lifted that lever, that seat smacked me upside the head, slammed my head into the steering wheel, and broke my glasses on the right side. Live and learn - I never made THAT mistake again.

Again, congratulations on a great conversion. (I have the cloth upholstery, and it still looks like the day I bought the car. The car has been babied, but it just turned 100,000 miles on it - the first car I have ever had that reached 100K.)

 

[DNK]

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It's people like Bob who really pi$$ me off.

Why can't he live next door to me

 

[tdskip]

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Did one of your three tools break already Don?

Great write up Bob - thanks for taking the time to document the process and all the details.

 

[HerronScott]

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The car has been babied, but it just turned 100,000 miles on it - the first car I have ever had that reached 100K.)

George,

We're the opposite in that we haven't had a car with less than 100,000 before they were "done". Our first "other" cars after the 68 Spitfire and 66 TR4A were a pair of RX-7's (79 and 80) that hit 200,000. We then went with a 87 Mazda 626 GT that hit 340,000 miles with only one injector replaced and a new turbocharger at 250,000 miles. Best buy we ever made! We currently have a 87 Ford Contour with 150,000 and an 04 Mazda 6S with 156,000 as our daily drivers.

Scott

 

[DNK]

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Them channel locks are getting hard to use

 

[Guest]

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Scott, before the Miata Club of America went belly-up, there were already members who had 500,000 miles on their Miatas. So, I am sure that there are ones out there now with a million miles on them. Mine is the "best quality" car I have ever owned.