New seats fitted

I finally fitted the MX5 seats in my convertible. I made a template in 12mm mdf with captive nuts in it and bolted the runners I had removed from the seats to it. I made 4 steel plates 90mm square and 8mm thick that I positioned over the old holes and lined up the template seat. I drilled and tapped the plate for 8mm bolts for the runners and the old holes in the floor, that way I didn’t have to put any more holes in the floor. The seats I took out were Mini R5? and didn’t have runners so getting a comfortable driving position wasn’t possible. I turned up some 30mm tall steel spacers under the front runners so that the MX5 seat squab is canted up at the front for thigh support. I can now get a comfortable driving position.

This is the MDF template with the captive M8 nuts in it that I used to position the seat.