Slight diversion

Only had single day off over holidays to work on car, so decided to take a slight diversion away from the chassis focus and devoted some time to the interior. Given the limited amount of interior space inside a Mini, picked up a Kirkey aluminum race seat (will be adding a second for passenger side) that should work quite nicely given the narrow seat width.

The seats are quite comfortable to sit in, but would prefer to have some creature comforts for longer street drives, so the plan is to add some additional foam inserts for the lower and upper seat backs and then have them upholstered in some distressed black leather that I picked up.

Decided the seat foam will need to have some additional strength, so got started on fabricating some fiberglass pans for lower and upper seat portions.

Applied some simple aluminum foil to the seat to protect seat and aid in releasing resin, cut the fiberglass mat material (few layers), and got started with applying the resin. When the resin hardened, cut the fiberglass to the required size using an air powered hacksaw. More to follow.