Glen-L Hot Rod

The driver's seat is nearing completion. The rails provide 6" of horizontal travel, 3" of vertical travel at the front of the seat and reclining backrest. We've also started the passenger seat base. Click here to see how the seat was made. ( a new window will be opened)

1. 1/4" diameter holes were drilled through the 7 layers of plywood to retain the aluminum seat mounting plates. 1/4"-20 stainless steel nuts were set into 1/2" counter-bore holes.

2. To prevent the bolts from bonding to the epoxy, the nuts were drawn down with lightly-greased bolts and capped with an epoxy mixture consisting of West resin and 403 / 407 fillers.

3. A passenger seat base was laminated over a buck built from scrap 1"x6" stock. Dimensions are 22" wide by 36" long.

Two coats of Nason Clear applied with an HVLP spray gun finish up the driver's seat.

1. At the bottom of the photo, we see the passenger side seat base after routing for webbing. At the top of the photo, we're laminating the bottom half of the seat base.

2. The two pieces are epoxied and clamped.

We could have built the passenger seat base supports from plywood, but aluminun will last forever. Our new horizontal metal bandsaw made quick work of cutting the 3/16" aluminum plate. Hope to install the seat base over the weekend.