Does your seat sit down into something? If so you could use a piece of cardboard and rough trace it out and trim till it fits and use that for a pattern. 

It would be nice to get weights on all the various manufacturers TD’s

I would be interesting to see how the Fiberfab VW model compares with the Ford Front engine model for weights.

Thanks for the info Rob. I make regular trips to the county dump. I’ll have to see what they’ll do for me and pick a day that they aren’t to busy.

Allen,
I took my car and had it weighted at the local town dump with has a pretty accurate truck scale for weighting trash, they didn’t charge me.  I weighted the car with the front tires on the scale then just the rear tires and then the total car.  Race cars get corner weights with four scales one on each tire so they can be properly tuned.  Pr…[Read more]

The taillights on my ’81 Lafer TI appear to be from an MGB. As for the mounts, you might have to source those — and the rims — from Brazil.

Allen,
I made my cushions the same thickness all over.  If you make it thinner in the back that is probably where you actually sit and you—-well  I wanted all the cush I could get there.
 I made new seat bases out of plywood.  Basicly I made a box approx the same length and width of the original fiberglass ones.  You can actually make them a…[Read more]

Richard you have a PM.
Thanks guys for all the help. Montie I was wondering how you attached the uphoslery after using the thicker foam. I was envisioning small screws but glad to know staples will work. So you didn’t use 3M spray carpet glue tohold the foam to the wood. That’s also good to know.
Last question on the cushions. Does/is the cushion…[Read more]

1500 to start with. Suprised as I thought our cars were slightly over 1000. Bud 1500 it is. I can always take it to the nearby truck scales and get a curb weight. Thanks Paul.

Allen, I tried to respond to your PM but screwed up somehow so my reply to your request is posted under my original post for the free seats, etc. Let me know what you wish me to do. Bare in mind that my seats are from the CMC/Chevette kit but I assume the dimensions are similiar.Catch ya later,Richard

Thanks, Paul.

Here you go….http://www.motortopia.com/car-pictures/1981-mp-lafer-ti-1016 0

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Somewhere around 1,500 pounds is a good place to start

My apologies, folks. I’ve tried three times, but can’t seem to get that link to work the way it shows up here. For some reason, when I post it, a space shows up between the final two digits. If you delete the space, maybe it’ll work. If not, do a Google search for “lafer ti” and click on the result labeled 1981 MP Lafer TI

Thanks, Allen. The Lafer isn’t a kit car, as it was factory-built, but it shares some characteristics with kits, primarily the fiberglass body, VW chassis and engine. I took some photos when it was delivered in 2007, at our previous house. You can check them out here: http://www.motortopia.com/car-pictures/1981-mp-lafer-ti-1016 0I’m having…[Read more]

 Montie, I goofed again.I forgot that the seat tapers toward the base with the amount of floor space being somewhat smaller than the top of the seat.. On my BCW,the person who did the seats for Mark  must have used the method I described above. The seat bottoms are pretty much the same top to bottom . The bottom is as big as the floor space a…[Read more]

Larry, Are you sure?  My board is quite a bit smaller than the top of the seat cover.  Even the old foam cusion I took out was at least 2″ larger all around the board.  The foam really conforms to the shape of the seat cover.  Thats 1 concern I had using the 5″ new foam.  The guy at the ulpostery shop assured me it wouln’t be an issue.  I did ha…[Read more]

 Allen, I can’t remember if the upholstry came with your kit ,but if you have it ,you would need to make the seat boards the same size and shape as the seat covers to get a good fit.You could trace arround the top edge of the cover to make a pattern for the base.

Thanks Montie. I’ll get started on that tomorrow and take pictures as I go.

Allen,
 I re-did my seats a couple weeks ago.  My seat bottom board measured 14 1/4 front to back, front is 16 1/2 and the back is 14 1/2.  All 4 corners are rounded approx a 4 inch diameter circle and then all edges were sanded smooth, (rounded top to bottom).  I used 5 inch very dense foam from an ulpostery shop.   I thought it would be too t…[Read more]