Lowering the drivers seat in 2013 NC Sport.

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Lowering the drivers seat in 2013 NC Sport.

Postby Arternune » Sun Oct 21, 2018 12:15 am

Hi. I am 193cm tall and barely fit in my NC hardtop with the roof up. Is it possible to lower the drivers seat any further than its lowest setting on the height adjustment? It might be my imagination but the passenger seat looks lower than the drivers seat. This doesn’t have the height adjuster. Can the seats be swapped or can anyone suggest the best course of action

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Re: Lowering the drivers seat in 2013 NC Sport.

Postby manga_blue » Sun Oct 21, 2018 12:11 pm

The traditional way of lowering seats in NAs and NBs is the foamectomy. I don't know if it's been tried on NCs, but at least it's worth googling it.
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Re: Lowering the drivers seat in 2013 NC Sport.

Postby rascal » Sun Oct 21, 2018 12:18 pm

Arternune wrote:Hi. I am 193cm tall and barely fit in my NC hardtop with the roof up. Is it possible to lower the drivers seat any further than its lowest setting on the height adjustment? It might be my imagination but the passenger seat looks lower than the drivers seat. This doesn’t have the height adjuster. Can the seats be swapped or can anyone suggest the best course of action

Do you still need the fore/aft adjustment? If not then removing the runners and mounting the seat directly to the floor can give precious cms...

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Re: Lowering the drivers seat in 2013 NC Sport.

Postby SS11 » Sun Oct 21, 2018 3:26 pm

I did this, works great.

https://forum.miata.net/vb/showthread.php?t=398248




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Re: Lowering the drivers seat in 2013 NC Sport.

Postby Arternune » Sun Oct 21, 2018 7:51 pm

Thanks for the useful information. I will go through all the links

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Re: Lowering the drivers seat in 2013 NC Sport.

Postby Regie » Wed Oct 24, 2018 4:18 pm

Yep check that link above, it does lower the seat base a tad.

NC1 seats sit lower also, could be another path to head down also
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