R-00123
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- Dallas
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- Feb 17, 2018
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- 2017 type r fk8
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Hello all. Ever since I've had this car I've felt like these heavily bolstered seats (especially the driver side) are missing a simple adjustment. When you raise or lower the overall height with the side lever it will always raise the front slightly more than the rear (where your butt is). Also because of the design it moves slightly forward.
What it's missing is being able to individually adjust the height of the butt region and knee region.
Me being somewhere between 5'8" and 5'10" this is annoying for a couple reasons.
1. At a comfortable height I find the seat is still raked back substantially and in my case of being "short" makes me feel like when I'm pressing in pedals (mainly the clutch) it feels like my knee is fighting to push into the seat front as my leg extends and ultimately straightens.
2. If the seat is basically at its highest setting to get a flatter seat bottom, my knees would need to be jammed into the dash/steering column to get full range on the pedals. This is due to the seat slightly moving forward as it raises.
I believe I found a simple solution. I found some old 'ebay' dress-up valve cover washers from my integra. (Which of course sealed for crap and allowed oil to seep past them so I went back to oem)
But they're aluminum and thicker than a regular washer. Drilled out the center hole and simply removed the two rear seat bolts (holding the whole assembly to the floor board) and slipped a couple of these in as spacers to raise the back of the seat over all. Reinstall bolts and now the seat sits more level at a comfortable mid height.
I dont know why I didnt try this 12,000miles ago.
Overall I think adding two spacers is about 1/2inch to 3/4 inch. I'm considering finding longer bolts so that there are a few more threads but for now they have plenty of threads to hold just fine. I may add one more spacer in the future in which I will need longer bolts.
TLDR: seating position sucks for shorter people, add some washers/spacers under the two bolts holding the back of the driver seat to the floor board and bam.
What it's missing is being able to individually adjust the height of the butt region and knee region.
Me being somewhere between 5'8" and 5'10" this is annoying for a couple reasons.
1. At a comfortable height I find the seat is still raked back substantially and in my case of being "short" makes me feel like when I'm pressing in pedals (mainly the clutch) it feels like my knee is fighting to push into the seat front as my leg extends and ultimately straightens.
2. If the seat is basically at its highest setting to get a flatter seat bottom, my knees would need to be jammed into the dash/steering column to get full range on the pedals. This is due to the seat slightly moving forward as it raises.
I believe I found a simple solution. I found some old 'ebay' dress-up valve cover washers from my integra. (Which of course sealed for crap and allowed oil to seep past them so I went back to oem)
But they're aluminum and thicker than a regular washer. Drilled out the center hole and simply removed the two rear seat bolts (holding the whole assembly to the floor board) and slipped a couple of these in as spacers to raise the back of the seat over all. Reinstall bolts and now the seat sits more level at a comfortable mid height.
I dont know why I didnt try this 12,000miles ago.
Overall I think adding two spacers is about 1/2inch to 3/4 inch. I'm considering finding longer bolts so that there are a few more threads but for now they have plenty of threads to hold just fine. I may add one more spacer in the future in which I will need longer bolts.
TLDR: seating position sucks for shorter people, add some washers/spacers under the two bolts holding the back of the driver seat to the floor board and bam.
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