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Race Seat

Posted by Tom Hampton , in External Blog 12-20-2010 · 2,996 views

Well, its been a while since I had a chance to work on the car. Iâ€™ve been doing drywall in the house, disassembling a broken lawnmower, several work related tasks, and various holiday season activities. But, last Friday I took the day off (actually the rest of the year) and Maria and I drove down to Flint, Tx to the UltraShield factory and showroom. I tried on several different seats of various sizes and finally settled on a 16â€ / 20^o VS RoadRace Halo seat. I eventually intent to make a custom foam insert using two part foam from pegasus auto racing. Particularly, after I get rid of some of the ballast around my midsection Posted Image

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Anyway, hereâ€™s the seat:

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Tom Hampton

12-20-2010 10:52 AM

Sweet! Okay, I know it's lame to be the first to comment on my own blog...but, all I had to do was cut&paste from my external blog to this blog editor. All the formatting and links came across untouched...even the stupid smiley.

At the moment, I can't find a Wordpress plugin that will cross-post between wordpress and ip.blog...I can do this manually without much effort.

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Andrew Warren

12-20-2010 11:08 AM

do they make foam for fat people? otherwise i need a new seat lol

I have a 16" and it's way too tight of a squeeze. Then again, I'm pretty 'big boned.'

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RacerX

12-20-2010 08:10 PM

Tom - Been reading your personal Blog for a while now and glad to see you on this site now too.

Rich

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Tom Hampton

01-02-2011 10:02 PM

Thanks, Rich.

Andrew, Lol....I don't think the foam knows. Even still, I'm sure there are gaps that could be filled. Look at it this way, you won't need as much foam! Posted Image