Seat bottom front to back were the upright seat starts. Thanks
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Marty
How many days before you can measure the seats yourself???
Bob, probably a week or so if weather looks good. I'm having my Italian upholstery guy make me a custom roll pillow to use as a quasi armrest on long drive. I have leftover leather to use. He's ready to work on now that's why I needed the measurements
Interesting. I ordered some more of my leather from Henry, as I want to make a couple of modifications to my interior.
There's always something we can spend our money on...
^ X10
Interesting, do tell Bob, center console Marty? Always interested in practical mods for the interior 
My winter projects done so far ... convert my marchal bulbs to H3, and install a Screaming Banshee air horn which is additional to the originals. I am still in the planning stages of installing a Subwoofer under the back seat. Ray
Actually, my seats are somewhat low and my passengers find they have some trouble seing over the dash so I am thinking of getting a wedge seat cushion made with the same leather for when they ride with me. It might be nice.
Ray not a real armrest just a cushion to lean on when highway cruising. Sometime I like to lean right and sometime left. No one has an IM Roadster?
I do, I do, I said that once 35 years ago...
I do understand, sometimes on a long ride you could stand to rest your arm. I Have had the pain, just never though of looking for the solution... sounds like a good plan ...
Speaking of arm rests, there are different rubber/ foam durometer ratings and I was recently given a foam piece that they use to lay under a bridge deck, serious foam here and I can kneel on it and never feel any pain in my knees on cement it just does not compress as much as well. If you were to use something like that or with some firmness you could have it side ways or up and down. Just saying.
Here in SoCal, I just used a rolled-up beach towel as an armrest! 
I don't have time to rest my arm with the left arm on the steering wheel and the other hand always waving back at people.
MusbJim posted:Here in SoCal, I just used a rolled-up beach towel as an armrest!
Is that the same towel you use to clean your hacky sack with?
Ray, did you need new wiring up to the horn button for the screaming banshee?
Marty Grzynkowicz posted:Ray, did you need new wiring up to the horn button for the screaming banshee?
The Screaming Banshee is supposed to hook up directly to your existing horn wiring. Quick press for the friendly honk and a longer press for the screaming banshee part. Ray did say he left his original horn installed.
I just checked the SB web page and it actually shows four ways to control the horn and everything uses existing wiring so it looks pretty easy to install.
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Marty Grzynkowicz posted:MusbJim posted:Here in SoCal, I just used a rolled-up beach towel as an armrest!
Is that the same towel you use to clean your hacky sack with?
Nope! I use an area rug for that.
Jimbo, that's a good one!
Jim, LOL
Marty, it is first of all a very loud AIRHORN with a relay controller.
The idea is to add it to your existing horn and the controller allows you to politely toot, if you can do that politely that is the question, but then you HOLD IT DOWN and the reg horn comes on and the AIRHORN comes on as well 1/4 sec later, Blasting the offender. IF you keep the horn PRESSED, the airhorn will cycle off for 1/4 sec and then back on full blast and you can also connect a yellow wire to the high beam which will causet the high beam to flash as well. (length of time of delay is user selectable with a jumper) You can also choose not to flash the high beam.
Install is pretty straight forward, all wires from controller/relay(contains 30amp fuse holder built in ------ power to battery +, ground to Battery or body, One wire to existing Positive on horn (piggy back with existing wire ) , one wire to the positive terminal of air horn, then ground wire from neg connector air horn to body,
Yellow wire from controller to high beam of one light.
Install of Airhorn, well that is the fun part, which is how to find a location out of the way and install the horn. It seems also that you have a single bolt with lock washer in a cast holder so to guarantee it never slipped out I but a SS gear clamp and tightened it very snuggly.
If you have a front rad or two like I do it gets even crazier to find a location, but I did it and it works fine.
SBanshee recommends you place the controller near the horn but for me I placed it in the fuse and relay area in my front trunk and wired it all up, heat shrinked all my wiring etc etc. It looks like it came from the factory I think
Any pics Ray?
Marty,
IM roadster, front of seat bottom to seat back is 18 inches.
Sorry for the delay. been out of town.
I was away so no picts yet but here are the details and picts from the Manufacturer's site, you can see the relay control unit, has the 30 amp fuse and two jumpers, and the horn and sizes.
http://screaming-banshee.com/f...em-black-horn-3.html
I'll try to post picts.
Ray
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I can't get that link to work, but here's a video of a Banshee horn mounted on a motorcycle.
What's really cool about this horn, besides that it's loud, is it can also be wired up to your lights, so they flash when the horn is on for more than .5 seconds.
Ron you can choose to have the lights blink or not and it's a pretty cool feature.
My roll pillow is in. It's larger in diameter than I requested; if it doesn't work for the middle I know it work for the left side . We will see.
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Hey Marty I found a link for you... seems like a popular item and this company sells them made to your specs...
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Ray, guess there's an industry for everything . I got mine done including the cream piping for $40 centavos.
Fancy stuff for sure.
On trips I use a canvas Lands End briefcase that sits in the 4-5: space between the seat and the door It contains enough stuff to make a good armrest. Works great. For the right leg Alice made me a nice pillow that matches the interior --maybe 18" x 18" and fairly firm. I have always heard that it can be harmful to the tranny if you lean your leg against the gear shift column --maybe that's an old wife's tale---anyone know for sure?)) The pillow is low enough to support my right leg without it actually leaning against the column. This greatly improves comfort on those 1,000 mile jaunts!
Jack Crosby posted:Fancy stuff for sure.
On trips I use a canvas Lands End briefcase that sits in the 4-5: space between the seat and the door It contains enough stuff to make a good armrest. Works great. For the right leg Alice made me a nice pillow that matches the interior --maybe 18" x 18" and fairly firm. I have always heard that it can be harmful to the tranny if you lean your leg against the gear shift column --maybe that's an old wife's tale---anyone know for sure?)) The pillow is low enough to support my right leg without it actually leaning against the column. This greatly improves comfort on those 1,000 mile jaunts!
"...maybe 18" x 18" and fairly firm"
Is that a pillow recommendation or an endorsement for Viagra??
"....it can be harmful to the tranny if you lean your leg against it..."
And I don't even want to know why you know this.
The Tranny told him it hurts...
Ok, so this is written while watching the UCONN/Syracuse women's game (GO HUSKIES!!) with 1-1/2 eyes, but here goes:
First - GREAT ideas on those pillows. I hadn't thought of that but it makes a lot of sense, for sure. I'll be messing with them right after the heater episode is over.
Second, on the shift lever......
Inside of the tranny nosecone is the actuator rod which, inside the cover, looks like a hockey stick at the foot ( for a better look, hook your index finger around into a hook while holding your thumb straight - THAT is mostly what it looks like...a little letter "C").
As you move the shift lever left to right in neutral, that hockey stick foot moves between three different corresponding C hooks inside of the nosecone; one hook for gears 1-2, another for gears 3-4 and the last one for reverse (found by overcoming the lockout with the gearshift lever).
The way it changes gear is to, first, move sideways to select the proper range (Reverse, 1-2 or 3-4) and then move front to back to chose a gear in that range by pushing the hook in or out to select the gear.
OK, so let's say you're in 4'th gear, cruising along I-40 at a nice, easy 80mph or so, munching on your Slim Jims while your wife is sleeping in her nest of oversized pillows and Slim Jim wrappers.
Pushing your road-numbed leg against the shift lever sideways (left-right) will only have the effect of moving the hockey stick back and forth within the 3-4 hook. In that event, nothing in particular happens. Moving the shift lever/hockey stick too far only pushes it up against the case or against the adjacent gear hook and little, if any, harm is done, mostly bacause the shift lever itself has only limited movement in any direction.
OTOH, if your sleeping wife moves and nudges her shapely leg (or your shapely leg) up against the shift lever when in 4'th, AND applies pressure towards the front or back, it will apply in or out pressure on the 3-4 hook, either pushing it harder into 4'th or pulling it slightly out of 4'th, either way putting undue gear pressure where it doesn't belong. In other words, don't do it because your gears will be pissed. You could also cause it to pop out of 4'th if you apply too much pressure under load, like going up or down a steep hill.
So there you have it....... Left/Right, not so bad. Forward/Back, not so good.
What's in YOUR pillow?