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Today I spent most of my efforts cutting up the rest of the jig, and cleaning up all the scraps, grinder dust, paint, dirt etc.

Then I ignored the next grinding and welding tasks, to take stock, take measurements, and design some seat support frames.
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I have a couple fabrication defects I want to correct, before I continue with the main welding, and I wasn’t feeling like that today either.
 
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These are the seat rails, and they are adjustable, but there’s no lock on one side.
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This relies on the seat frame itself to absorb a lot of force, and is a prime cause of seat frame breakage. I suffered this in more than one bucket seat car.

But this is only of academic interest as I am going to toss out this unnecessary weight.

This car is so small that nobody over 5’-0” will be wanting to move the seat forward! (They will want to move the pedals back if under 5’-6” or so.)

I’m just going to mount the seats all the way back and solid to the car.

But I might mount them with slots to allow for a small amount of assembly adjustment.

Originally the car came with four of these seat risers. Unfortunately (and I don’t know how soon or if ever the original builder realized this) they sent him four right seat brackets and no left brackets.

When I got the car the driver seat was mounted all crooked in the chassis because of the mistake.

How I temporarily corrected it is like this.
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One of the brackets I cut and welded to make it opposite hand.

One of the brackets I heated up with a torch, and hammered it backwards over an anvil.

All four of them will go in the junk as I am not mounting the seats directly to the floor. There will be some sub framing similar to what I’ve showed in the photograph above.
 
Dramatic photograph of chassis sitting at 45°. You can see that for safety I’ve got 13 legs and a chain under this thing.
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The shiny new floor patch never got trimmed properly and it forced this plate out of alignment at the joint I have indicated. (In this photograph I have already trimmed the patch.)
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Fortunately I had only tack welded this leg in two places, so I cut those two welds loose and knocked the plate back into position.

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They were in a place where it was very difficult to use any kind of grinder so I used an electric drill and a hacksaw blade and then a hammer and chisel.

Anyhow I cut that all apart with the frame sitting flat, and then I rolled the frame up to 45° to eliminate the vertical welding.
 
I wish, but there is still much welding to do.

Today I got more of the floor welding done, and I got the frame rails tied in better at the rear corners.

But I ran out of argon again.

I did get more welding done, but nothing spectacular.
 
I got all of the frame rails fully seamed, top and bottom now.

I did this with dozens of skip welds, so there are lots of stops and starts.

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I also got the rest of the floor ledgers welded to the crossmember.

Before I roll it again, I need to weld on the tunnel, and partially weld the tunnel to the crossmember.

The floor still needs work in the corners.
 

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