My seats are done! I had Ron Matta from Aviation Creations do my seats. I used the same style as Greg did on his project but changed the colors. I also added perforated leather to the center sections of all the seats. The front seat frames were powder coated gray to match the Atlee Dodge folding jump seats.

Bladders

Those look great, Rob!

They look great! Do you mind if I ask what a set of seats cost?

Not bad, only about 6 times more than my first car.

I got the new seats in the plane.

How well do the seats fold up, can you leave the cushions in place or do you have to remove the seat bottoms

The backs slide off and the bottoms Velcro on. It takes 2 seconds to take the cushions off to fold it up super flat.

Slick, Rob!

robw56 wrote:Not bad, only about 6 times more than my first car.

If it costs 6 times as much as my first car then you got a bargin and will still have change!

I finally got the floor cut out and installed tonight. Now basically all I have left before I start flying it is the annual and W&B.

Friggin sweet! I sure hope to make my 172 look like soon

What's the floor mat material? Do you get any interference with the seats with the mat up against the forward seat rails like that?


Looks like you could play Legos on it.

Pete

It's Aerofloor DOT from AIP Source: http://www.aipsource.com/aerofloor.html ... rofloordot it is very thin and there's no interference with the seat and seat rails.

Well I got the annual done today! Unfortunately I still have to wait to do the W&B, need to borrow some scales. Hopefully I'll do that on Wednesday. It seems like tradition with these project threads to have a contest to guess the empty weight, this one will be no different. So, what do you think it will weigh in at? The winner wins a FREE beer at a future fly-in Before I started this project I had a calculated empty weight of 1398 on 26" bushwheels and the rear bench seat in. For this weight and balance I'll be on 8.00x6 tires. I'm hoping to be well below the 1300lb mark on 8.00s.

Wow, Rob! You are never going to want to taxi back in once you get airborne again!

Congrats,

-DP

Here we go. I'm in at 1307.

I think you scraped off a 100 so I'll guess 1298

Guessing 1313 here, but hoping you come in less!

Mark J

Okay I'm going to go on the high side 13 52.

This is a little off subject but this is Michael's 120 project so Robby do you want him to send you the check for that material first before you ship it.
Also we need to ship the parts for the side panels too Harley.

You've done an outstanding job Rob!

1327 lbs e/w with required fluids.