tall person seat/ EFI question

[Kramer]

At 6'3" here is what I did for my 427 ERA.

1) Put in a ken miles racing seat from..like Kirkey only more vintage looking
2) Made my own brackets for the seat and rocket it back as far as I could
3) Swapped my 15" steeting wheel for a 14" wheel
4) " I know I should not do this....however I sometimes drive with just socks b/c it gives me a better feel for the pedals (those suckers are so damn close together).

PM if you thing I can help. FYI..I run a stack EFI TWM system...see my pics.

Kramer

[Got the Bug]

Originally Posted by Kramer

At 6'3" here is what I did for my 427 ERA.

1) Put in a ken miles racing seat from..like Kirkey only more vintage looking
2) Made my own brackets for the seat and rocket it back as far as I could
3) Swapped my 15" steeting wheel for a 14" wheel
4) " I know I should not do this....however I sometimes drive with just socks b/c it gives me a better feel for the pedals (those suckers are so damn close together).

PM if you thing I can help. FYI..I run a stack EFI TWM system...see my pics.

Kramer

Kramer,

Have you tried any narrow flat shoes like Puma's? I've got big feet and there's no way I can drive my car unless I'm wearing my Puma's. I also tried the Piloti racing shoes, but didn't like the thickness of the sole.

[patrickt]

I don't know about fitting in to FIAs, but I did take the time to fly up to ERA and visit with Doug for a true butt-in-seat test on my 427 car. Peter was doubtful that Doug could fit all 6'4" of me in to the car comfortably -- and I told them that I wanted to look squarely through the windshield, as if I was 5'10". Doug said he could do it... and he did. The driver's seat is moved back, bolted directly to the floor, and has reduced padding. The pedals are moved forward with a special Tilton clutch master cylinder -- slight additional effort, but if you're 6'4" you don't really care. The pedals are spread a bit to accomodate my 12 EEE feet (pics in my gallery along with a tape measure). 15" Moto-Lita wheel and I'm good to go. With my top up (on the very, very rare occasions that I drive with the top up) I have more headroom in that car than I do in my full size GM car. It can be done. There is a small downside though, when Danny D. brought my car down to me he crawled behind the wheel to back it out of the trailer and exclaimed "My feet won't even touch the pedals -- and there's no adjustments on anything!" So I had to back it out for him. BTW, Doug told me that he had to craft a sort of "baby seat" to sit in the driver's seat itself so that he could then drive the car. Now that's funny.

[Steve Gallegos]

If you're running a 302 or 351 look at the Edelbrook Proflo EFI. I have one on my 351 and it works great. You can program it with a lap top or with the hand held device they give you. Their support is also very good. Through your computer Edelbrook can then look at the performance and help you set the parameters that you want. The cost is around $3500.

[Mdman352]

I am 6'3" 285#. the only way i could drive my car was to remove the seat. You will go down about 7"-8" and back about the same amount. I tried the fiberglass seat from Cobra Restorers but the didn't fit my frame, even after taking a cutoff saw to one of them. I still have the one and an unmolested one if you are interested. I am having my motorcycle seat guy craft various densities of foam to form a "seat." Nick Acton is performing surgery on the transmission tunnel in an attempt to get more room in the foot box as well. I have size 14 EEE and found that Simpson racing shoes are the only way to be safe when driving. They have the smallest "foot print" of all of the shoes. Before I removed the seat I was always thinking about getting too much air under my nose and performing a self ejection.