[Ken Miele]

I wanted to keep the back seat and the passenger seat stock, but NHRA had other ideas, so with that I decided to remove the back seat and completely remove the factory look of the seating.

When I was doing this project I kind of forgot about my build, so I did not take photos until half way through the project. The photo of the stock seat is not mine, looks to nice for my car anyway. I just wanted show what the stock seat looks like.

I used .040 aluminum along with a carpet material used for speaker boxes. I decided to fabricate, I could have bought a rear seat delete made out of fiberglass, but I would have had to cut it up to make it fit and they are very pricey.

The materials were less the $75 and it took about about a day to finish. I used cardboard to make a template and make the cut out for the tunnel. I used 3M adhesive to attach the material to the aluminum. I use four trim screws to attach the panels. I made it two pieces for easy removal and to make it fit. I would not have been able to fit it between the roll bar if it was one piece. The rear piece gives me access to the upper rear shock mounts, remove one trim screw and I get easy access.

The total weight savings for swapping out the factory seating was 60lbs.

All I have left is to clean up the factory panels and paint the roll bar. When test fitting the aluminum sheets it was hard not to hit the roll bar, lots of scratch's to fill.