So i had today off work, which sucks really as i haven't earned anything, but gave me the chance to get more done on the car, i spent most of the morning getting parts off the Cup for people. First thing i done for the ph1 was get the Odyssey race battery out of the Cup so i could hook it upto the C-Tek trickle charger. I was then pleased to see in the 2 weeks the car hadn't been used, and the very cold weather, the battery hadn't lost any charge, and was reading full charge straight away!
So i got the seats out of the ph1 ready to mount the battery and hit a problem strait away. The ph1 had the seat rails removed and the seats were bolted directly to the floor of the car, leaving about 60mm below the bottom of the seat and the floor, so i thought no problem, put some 20mm spacers between the seat and subframe and problem solved, but then i noticed the sliders on the seats had the catch's and wires under the seat lower than what the bottom of the seat, leaving no space in the middle of the seat for the battery.
So i had a quick look at my old Monaco S seats out of my cup and noticed the sliders were different, without a wire and catch going through the middle!
It's pretty hard to see what i'm talking about in the pictures, but anyway with the sliders off my old seats the battery would have enough space in height, with only about 20mm of spacer in width between the sliders. Whilst changing them over i also fitted 20mm spacers to give a bit of extra height. so i measured up and marked out where the battery was going and got it fixed.
I then got the seat into the car and it fitted over the battery perfectly.
I then also fitted 20mm spacers to the drivers seat and it was a much better height now, in the future i may look at getting some seat rails welded in, but i'm happy as it is right now
By this point it was 2 o clock, i was hungry, and had lots of parts to pack up ready for the post office, so i called it a day there