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@Bob: IM S6 posted:

Well made speedster seats are very comfortable.  We've driven to Carlisle, then to the Outer Banks in our car, and we've never had any complaint.  It's a two day drive back home, and we've never had any issue with comfort.

Those seats look nicely padded, similar to Henry's.  They will be fine, and suit the overall look of the car.

@BOB IM S6 With mid engine configuration it could be tight if your over 6 feet. The seats are so close to the firewall.

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@calmotion posted:

@BOB IM S6 With mid engine configuration it could be tight if your over 6 feet. The seats are so close to the firewall.

If you're over six feet, perhaps any seat would be a tight fit for you in that car.

It's Lane's car.  I was just commenting on the comfort of the seats, and I assume Lane has it all figured out.

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We bought a pair of the comfy seats from Greg at Vintage Motorcars. They look great and are indeed very comfortable.

Apparently, it's a thing for "plus sizes" to replace Razr seats with wider versions and my brother has been buying virtually brand new Razr seats for $100-$125/pair. I'm totally on the fence about using them in our cars, but the price can't be beat. He got a seat for each of his Chenowith's, and he just bought another pair for his X-19. Close to a Speedster seat, but with a headrest  

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I think a lot of folks are under the mistaken idea that everybody is entitled to hear their opinion, whether it was asked for or not.

Collectively, we tend to miss the entire point of a "build thread". We imagine that the poster is asking for recommendations. But in point of fact, the purpose of them is not unlike the showing of pictures of your kids or grandkids at work - to say (in a polite and non-braggy way), "This is important to me. These things are mine".

As such, casual and offhand comments from every random dude on the internet regarding choices long since weighed, agonized over, and ultimately already made are really in pretty bad form. They're a bit like saying, "your middle kid - I hope she's smart, because with that face, she's gonna' need to be".

There are exceptions to this rule, but they don't come into play unless the poster is asking for opinions. It's been a long, long time since Lane did.

You may not like the choices somebody else made. That's great - make other choices for yourself. But for the love of all that's good, leave the poor sap paying for the choices he's made his moment in the sun. Expressing concerns and commenting privately is one thing - throwing out your own opinions regarding everything from color choices to what kind of seats a guy has is not helpful to anybody. Get a filter.

Most people can look at the seating position and understand that the mid-engine super-coupe probably won't fit an NBA forward, just like oddly proportioned humans (myself included) do not fit in a Spyder. That's OK, Carey and Company can build one in a rear engine configuration if you'd like.

But since Lane is a man of normal proportions, and since this is Lane's car, and since he loves it, and since it's pretty late in the game to say, "you know, let's make this a rear-engined car", how about we just contain ourselves to positive public comments and relevant questions. "I love your steering wheel". "That rollbar really looks great".

You can do it if you actually think about the guy on the other side of the screen.

And what do you say we let that guy enjoy this process? Lane's waited for this for 6 very long years. Building a car is hard enough without every Tom, Dick, and Harry lobbing bombs from the cheap seats.

@Lane Anderson - I've never been a huge fan of the "C", and I'd never fit in a mid-engined car like that, and I'm generally not a "blue guy"... but I think your car is going to be fantasticI love what it is, I love the choices you've made, and I think you and Carey have hit one out of the park here.

I wish you could tell me if it was going to be at Carlisle, because I'd like to come out and see it. I'm that excited for you.

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@Stan Galat posted:

I think a lot of folks are under the mistaken idea that everybody is entitled to hear their opinion, whether it was asked for or not.

Collectively, we tend to miss the entire point of a "build thread". We imagine that the poster is asking for recommendations. But in point of fact, the purpose of them is not unlike the showing of pictures of your kids or grandkids at work - to say (in a polite and non-braggy way), "This is important to me. These things are mine".

As such, casual and offhand comments from every random dude on the internet regarding choices long since weighed, agonized over, and ultimately already made are really in pretty bad form. They're a bit like saying, "your middle kid - I hope she's smart, because with that face, she's gonna' need to be".

There are exceptions to this rule, but they don't come into play unless the poster is asking for opinions. It's been a long, long time since Lane did.

You may not like the choices somebody else made. That's great - make other choices for yourself. But for the love of all that's good, leave the poor sap paying for the choices he's made his moment in the sun. Expressing concerns and commenting privately is one thing - throwing out your own opinions regarding everything from color choices to what kind of seats a guy has is not helpful to anybody. Get a filter.

Most people can look at the seating position and understand that the mid-engine super-coupe probably won't fit an NBA forward, just like oddly proportioned humans (myself included) do not fit in a Spyder. That's OK, Carey and Company can build one in a rear engine configuration if you'd like.

But since Lane is a man of normal proportions, and since this is Lane's car, and since he loves it, and since it's pretty late in the game to say, "you know, let's make this a rear-engined car", how about we just contain ourselves to positive public comments and relevant questions. "I love your steering wheel". "That rollbar really looks great".

You can do it if you actually think about the guy on the other side of the screen.

And what do you say we let that guy enjoy this process? Lane's waited for this for 6 very long years. Building a car is hard enough without every Tom, Dick, and Harry lobbing bombs from the cheap seats.

@Lane Anderson - I've never been a huge fan of the "C", and I'd never fit in a mid-engined car like that, and I'm generally not a "blue guy"... but I think your car is going to be fantasticI love what it is, I love the choices you've made, and I think you and Carey have hit one out of the park here.

I wish you could tell me if it was going to be at Carlisle, because I'd like to come out and see it. I'm that excited for you.

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I never understood that either Stan. Lane’s building Lane’s car based on a whole lot of thought, input, changed minds after original choices, and so on. There’s no way in hell Lane’s going to change something now because someone else wouldn’t have made the same choice.

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Well if people are offended by sometimes gauche comments even if your right that people do not always need to feel they have to comment or have a right to comment then maybe we should establish a build forum where only the car builder can post to it.  I mean if that solves tread drift enough for the standards of the main list members.
I kind of remember some new guy leaving because he was insulted that we posted to his  topic when many of us suggested he create a site for his build as this was the way it was on this list. He castigated us then got mad and left.   Hard to know what the community standard is on any list or on a topic.

I am simply trying to clarify or as my wife says read the room

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I'm as bad as the next guy sometimes, Ray, and I wasn't aiming at anybody - just the general silliness of opining about a seat everybody can see is already done.

What was going on there was not "thread drift". Thread drift is when we start off talking about tires and end up listing all the states we've ever visited. What we were doing was second-guessing somebody else's already made decisions.

After a buyer has made his decisions, and plunked down his money, and has the car 95% of the way complete, it's probably not the most constructive time to second guess the decision ("Why did you choose that builder?" "Are you SURE about that Type 1?" "I really don't like coupes." "I would have put in a Derrington wheel." "Those tires are garbage." etc.). As a general rule, it's pretty easy to tell who's not yet finalized a build and who's already made the big decisions. Once the decisions are in motion and the build has already begun, and something is already complete, it's a bad time to second guess everything.

As far as the "for sale" posts picking people's cars apart -  I think we've been doing better of late, or maybe we've just learned that our own value calibrations are several years behind the arc of actual prices. Whatever it is, it's nice that people can list and sell their cars in peace.

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@Phisaac posted:

My speedster seats make me lean back too far. I would like them to be more upright.

any ideas.

On some of the speedster seats the cushion is secured with Velcro to the fiberglass shell  , if that is the case loosen four nuts , remove the rear two and stack some washers under the seat base . If your seat cushion has a plywood square base it has a couple of bolts securing the cushion to the seat shell that will have to be removed to access the seat bolts then stack washers as above.

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