- The next steps in the life
of our little rally car project are some safety related items. We're gonna do seats and
harnesses, and a roll cage. So on the topic of the roll cage, I wanna make my own roll cage. Of course, I wanna do a DIY style, but I've never made a roll
cage and I'd really like to get it right on the first try. So I figured this would be a
great excuse to ask my mom, if I could have a friend over,
she totally can't say no. Mom, can Mike come over? She said, yes. I'm Zach that's Mike. This is Money Pit. Let's
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link in the description below. Now let's get back to Money Pit, baby. Boosh. (soft string music) Now, I Know what you
guys are all thinking. You thought you clicked
on a video about seats and I just keep talking
about roll cages. What gives? Let me clear it up. So I am ready to put a
roll cage in this thing, but before you go put
in a roll cage in a car, there's some stuff that
you wanna have sorted out. Like where are you gonna
sit, your seating position, your seat, your steering wheel, all that stuff should be sorted out before you put a roll cage in because once you weld
a roll cage in place, it's not gonna move too easily. So before we go any further, let me introduce you to my friend, Mike. I used to work with him
at ECS Tuning in Ohio, he's a wizard at welding and
he's terrific with tubing. He's built a bunch of roll cages, he's great at fabrication
and he's just the guy to come help me out with this project. Not necessarily installing seats, but I kinda duped him. So that's what we're gonna do today. We're gonna strip the interior. We're gonna get these old
seats out and replace them with a cool set of seats and harnesses. And we're also gonna install
a sick new steering wheel so that I can really dial
in my whole driving position before doing a cage. So let's take a look at some of the crap he's gonna help me out with. Let's take a Gander of the goods, baby. First off for seats, I got
a set of Sparco's Evo seats, and they weren't exactly cheap. I paid about 1,750 bucks for the pair. And then for the task of
holding these seats to the car, It has Sparco's aluminum brackets,
these are nice and beefy. And then I got a pair of these. These are the mounts that were mounted to the actual chassis. So
these are built for an E36. They should use these
stock mounting points. And then the brackets,
those Sparco brackets, they'll mount to this. Then down here, I don't know if you guys are
gonna be able to see these, but I got some harnesses. These
are made by Sparco as well. And that's right, they're
a desert digital cammo, perfect for ripping around in the desert. These are a five point harness, which means that we're
gonna have to modify the car a little bit to install them. Then we've got our steering wheel set up. We've got our quick disconnect here. It's really sick, I
can't wait to put it on. I've always regretted that
the Miata doesn't have a quick disconnect. So boom, baby. And then to connect the
quick disconnect to the car, we of course have a hub. Then
one of my favorite things, we've got a steering
wheel also from Sparco. I really like all these products a lot, even though they're not the
cheapest, they are really nice. So I can't wait to get this stuff in. It's gonna change the personality
of the car in a big way, especially 'cause we're
gonna be getting rid of most of the beige things that are in there. So let's strip some
interior and get these seats in my driving position in
general, I'll figure it out. (upbeat music) Don't break anything. It's
all going up for sale on eBay. (upbeat music) Taking stuff out is finding
what's holding it in and removing it, sometimes breaking it, but ideally not ever breaking it. I mean, when you are taking
stuff like this apart, it is a good idea to be
organized with your hardware, especially if you ever care
about putting stuff back in. There's a Ziploc bags for me, baby. Always good disconnect your battery before you started
playing with these bombs. Speaking which, big step to
get the steering wheel off and then we're start
to get the carpet out. - [Eddie] Wait, what are
we gonna do with that? - Well, so I do remember where you live and I remember which room is yours. So I was thinking maybe I
would modify your pillow a little bit. - [Eddie] Old neck cracky racky? (laughs) - Yeah. I'm gonna be a chiropractor, Eddie you're my first, Ouch! (beep) Well, we're at a crossroads,
bit of an impasse. We gotta take out all this
stuff to get the carpet out in one piece or turn the carpet
into more than one piece. You know what I'm gonna do? (slow upbeat music) All right. Now, let's
pull this carpet out. Oh yeah. I'm gonna lose weight for this. (slow upbeat music) This car just got a lot
louder, but that's okay. It's a race car. All the noises. Wow! Look at my nice red interior. It is a BMW. So we've got the
majority of the interior out of the car. And I guess
you might be wondering why we would even do all this. Why we would remove all
these perfectly good and comfortable seats to replace them with less comfortable stuff. And the fact is, I mean, the thing's supposed to be
a performance driving car and when you're performance driving, comfort really isn't what you're after, you're after being held in place. And in my opinion, doing a
nice set of seats and you know, (beep) pit mods really
improve the driving experience when you're trying to drive hard. And I said, a seats
will hold you in place, keep it from sliding around. They let you use five point
harnesses like we're gonna do for extra safety. And these
seats didn't even really work. Didn't work. They didn't reclined either. They used to at one point in
their life probably reclined, but they didn't do that anymore anyway. So it's just a lateral move
with a little less comfort and a little more safety. Now, let's put some seats in. All right. So I'm just
throwing the side brackets on the seat right now
and I don't really know where I want them to end up ultimately. So I'm just putting them on and then we'll put them in the car, and see if we like it and
adjust it, if we don't. Probably gonna be a lot of adjustment in my future, I don't expect
to get this right the first try and I wanna get it exactly right. I wanna get in the car and be like, yeah, that's where I'm supposed to sit. All right. Well, our
bracket looks to line up with the holes and the posts for the original seat mounting locations. That's great. Sometimes aren't great. Now we just gotta hope
that the mounting holes for the seat brackets also line up, but I have a feeling they're not gonna. Okay. Something in this ballpark. Okay. This is the area that
I wanted to see, I think. Now I'm gonna put the steering wheel on so I can tell where that's gonna be and then we'll readjust the seat. First thing I'm gonna do is pop this hub onto the stock's spline. (wrench screeching) Then we'll connect the quick
disconnect and then the wheel. (wrench screeching) - No way. - [Eddie] Bro, you
don't even tighten that. - I know. I guess that's what you get when you get the harbor
freight, ball and allen keys. It just broke my head off at like one newton meter of torque. The made in mounting. Oh yeah. I like that. - [Mike] Can you go lower? - Can I go lower the seat? I mean, I think so over
your head right now. - [Mike] Probably make
believe that the tube over your head right now? - Yeah.
- (indistinct) - Oh boy. - When you put in a cage
and a seat in a car, it's really important
to try to consider where the tubing is gonna be. You don't wanna be bumping
your head off that, it's just not safe. So you're gonna have to seat low enough and try to keep all the roll cage tubing as far away from you as possible. - Well, you heard him, baby. We gotta mind my noggin. I guess that's why I brought Mike along. The only problem is that the
steering wheel is a touch high and yeah, as my seat goes lower, it's only gonna get higher relative to me. Okay. Well let's pop
this thing out of here and see how much lower we can go. (upbeat music) - You will need MC bracket
for your brackets touch. - The what? Where, how? - Right here, the whole front of the seat before your brackets can touch each other. - So we can't go lower. - The back in it sits in front of them. So it's a little reclined,
I'll give you a little more So yeah. I guess we're gonna be tilting. Sometimes you don't get to
do exactly what you want 'cause you're a little
limited by the parts you're working with. And these are a lot of parts
that got to stack together. It looks like we got to tilt. - Gangster. Lean me,
baby gangster lean man. All right. Well, this
looks like pretty much my final seating position.
I've got some headroom, the seat fits my distance
to the pedals is great. And I like the distance
to the steering wheel. So let's ship it. Bolt these puppies up. The holes on our brackets and our seat mounts don't line up. So we're gonna have to
do a little hole making. That's okay. Mike's really
good at making holes. We've got all our holes marked
out what we need to drill, we need to drill a hole there, a hole there and two in these seat rails, then they'll go together. Perfect little marriage, just like us. (slow upbeat music) (driller screeching) Seat mounts and brackets
put together sort of. Our new holes worked,
it's jamming on the seat. (metals clanging) (tool wrench screeching) Yeah, baby. That's for, when you are
doing like long races and you had a pee and poop, it's where you eject it. Well, that's a seat attached to a thing and look, we're almost
kinda off the weld there. (metal sheet clanging) Looks about right. (chuckles) That's about it. I am pleased. All right. So we got a lot of
interior out of this thing, we got two fancy new seats in it and a Sig new steering wheel setup. So we're pretty much ready
to take the seats back out and get started on cage stuff. But I figured it was only right that we at least drive around the block and feel these new seats out. I got a sick new set of
pedals, they're aluminum. They're made by hard motor
sport and I'm gonna put them in. Pretty cool pedal. It's
got a little, thingy, so your foot can't slip off to the right. That's pretty cool. Let's see how difficult it is
to install. It looks pretty. (metals clanging) Oh yeah. It looks cool, feels cool. Oh, baby! I think it's
time for a test drive. (sirens alarming) (heavy metal music) I am considerably lower. I like these seats and it's a good size. At least for my buns. - Yeah. We really got a good tip. - Yeah. It's a nice hug. I'm not going anywhere. I'm gonna be able to
throw this thing around and not end up over there. And you know, all this stuff actually, makes me feel pretty cool. These seats are awesome. This wheel, I'll be a
crooked, looks pretty cool. Even crooked. (car engine revving) (chuckles) This thing is a full blown race car. Yeah. This thing's coming
together and quick. That's the other thing too. I mean the interior has
turned a little bit red in a cool way, but it's also just gone from normal to way cool in one day. - Significantly more interesting. - I know, a hundred percent. I feel way cooler sitting in this thing than I did just this morning. The only thing that you
may or may not have noticed to be missing, you've might have thought you just couldn't see them
because of their cammo, but we don't have any
seat belts at the moment. And that's not really what you want, but to mount those seat belts,
we need a bit of a roll cage. So I reckon it's time to
head back to the shop. Probably straighten
out this steering wheel and get started on the roll cage. - Let's do it. - What do you think? How
much work we got ahead of us? - A bunch. - Hell yeah. All right. Well, let's get
our illegal selves back to the shop. Don't drive without seatbelts kids. - No, they're gonna do it. - Safety first.
