Miata seat mounts for TR6

Rick's Miata Seat Mounts for TR6
-with permission from Rick Patton-
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Miata Seats are a very common upgrade to the TR6, but one of their drawbacks is finding a way to mount them to the car so that removing and re-installing the seats
is a simple task. Many guys just drill holes in their floor and drop bolts through the Miata seat rails and bolt them down. Others make up their own "brackets" that
bolt to the Miata rails and then bolt to the floor. There's even someone making a custom bracket that bolts to the Miata rails and then bolts to the floor. All of these
approaches that try to re-use the TR6 seat mounting locations have the same thing in common...... they first bolt to the seat and then they bolt to the floor. Anyone
who has installed a TR6 seat knows what a pain it is to thread those 1/4" bolts through the seat rail, pass the carpet and underlayment and into the blind nut
mounted under the car. No wonder there's so many stripped or cross threaded mounting bolts & nuts for the stock seats. And now more and more guys have added
products like FatMat or Dyna-Mat which adds another layer to work that bolt through.

My goal was to design a completely different approach with a unique design that molded to the shape of the Miata brackets and once installed would not have to be
removed i.e. the brackets bolt to the floor and the seat bolts to the bracket. When you want to remove the seat you slide it back and remove the front two flange
bolts, then slide it forward and remove the rear two flange bolts. The seat lifts off the brackets and the brackets remain in place.

My design also takes into account the need to position the Miata seat as far toward the tranny tunnel as possible to clear the "B" pillar. The brackets are slotted in
such a way that they can move laterally as well as pivot.

I can tell you that what I thought was going to be a simple product turned out to be both a design & machining challenge............and I got real good at removing and
installing the seats in my TR6.

I'm selling the kit for $179.99 and you can email me for payment options.
rick@pattonmachine.com

Please feel free to contact me with any questions you might have.
Email is the preferred method of communications
but if you want to call my number is 207-729-5928, the best time is in the evenings.

You can visit my website at:
http://pattonmachine.com/Miata-Brackets.htm

The kit comes with eight brackets and all the necessary hardware to mount them to stock TR6 blind nuts. If you've drilled out and re-tapped to a different size you will
have to source the correct sized bolts locally.

	The kit comes with eight brackets and all the necessary hardware to mount them to stock TR6 blind nuts. If you've drilled out and re-tapped to a different size you will have to source the correct sized bolts locally.
	The eight brackets are cut from one block of 6061-T6 billet aluminum
	The stock Miata rails need to be straightened which is easily done in a vice.
	This mounting piece (red arrow) needs to stay and that pin has to be removed at the step indicated by the green arrow.

	Here's one of the front brackets and you can see the detail in the machining to match up with the bracket design. The green arrow points to the hole that the alignment pin in the photo above fits in to. The black arrow is where the hold down bolt goes and the pink arrow is the threaded hole for the flange bolt.
	Here's a rear bracket with the same amount of detail. In this case the hold down bolt goes into the slot to allow for lateral positioning of the seat.
	Here's the passenger side loosely bolted in place. Position the seat on the brackets, push it toward the tranny tunnel and all the hold down bolts (green & yellow arrows). The seat uses four flange bolts and go into the threaded holes (red arrows)
	It's the same idea for the driver's side with one exception. The right front bracket by the tranny tunnel uses the long hold down bolt provided in the kit. That bolt holds BOTH the seat and the bracket in place.

	Here's a better look at the driver's seat bolted in place...... the red arrow shows the long bolt holding both the seat and bracket in place. The other side has one bolt for the bracket and the flange bolt for the seat.
	And from the rear.