Help!!!! I need to figure out if I can fit in this thing. I need to find someone in Southern California that would let me test fit it. I am 6'3" and am willing to try a Gurney Bubble if I have to.
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Help!!!! I need to figure out if I can fit in this thing. I need to find someone in Southern California that would let me test fit it. I am 6'3" and am willing to try a Gurney Bubble if I have to.
Fireblade is in SoCal.
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So-Cal is a pretty big area. It would help if you would narrow down your location a bit. Maybe include the city you reside in?
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“Under-steer is when you hit the wall with the front of the car and over-steer is when you hit the wall with the rear of the car. Horsepower is how fast you hit the wall and torque is how far you take the wall with you.”
-- Jacques Schnauzee "World Famous Racecar Driver"
"If you can make black marks on a straight from the time you turn out of a corner until the braking point of the next turn, then you have enough horsepower."--Mark Donohue
I'm in fountain valley... but the car is up in the air right now doing body work.
Tonys10, the short answer is you will not fit comfortably or safely in the car as delivered. For that to happen you will need to do the following: move the fuel tank from behind the seats to the front of the car (Boyd's Welding $400), buy aftermarket seats with minimal installed height (ie, Corbeau RRX), cut out the rear of the diagonal cross bracing where the rear of the seats reside and weld in new bracing to allow the rear of the seats to sit on the floor of the chassis, weld in a new cross beam for the fronts of the seats, purchase the Wilwood pedal box and then weld in extensions to move it 3" forward, build a new aluminum box to house it and seal everything, re-engineer the steering column to fit the new box, and about half dozen more little things.
All-in-all about 3 months of labor but for me, at 6' with a 33" inseam, it was worth it. My neighbor, who is 6'4" fits reasonably well and his head does not hit the ceiling. There are a few tricks you can do to get the ceiling height up a smidge. Feel free to pm me and I can send you pics of everything I've done.
Or just get the Kirkey seats FFR sells (they're way cheaper from Summit btw) and mount them directly to the floor as myself and Bob have done.
I'm 6ft and easily clear the bar in my S with a helmet since doing so, and fit comfortably in the FFR show coupe when I picked up my kit, though I don't know what exactly they've done to it behind the scenes.
Ok, now I'm concerned, 6'1" with a 34" inseam. That doesn't include a helmut. Can I fit under the roll bar and pass the broom stick?