kersh4w

iTrader: (3)

wow. way to look past the obvious.

obviously the 2 of you have different bodies. headroom issues are all torso length related. the longer your torso, the higher your head will be, regardless of total body length. people can be all legs or all torso, or any mix of the two.

alfy28

mat128

Quoted for truth... I am 6'1" and have to lean a little on the right or sit further down on my back...

Any quick fix to this? different seat brackets or something? I like the stock seats but thats the exact problem

renesisgenesis

nice, someone who understands me. It's weird isn't it? It's like why not just make the effing seats an inch lower. The lowest part of my *** is probly at least 5 inches from the floor. huge amount of room to lower it. Not to be racist, but this is an asian car....so maybe that explains this design flaw...

I have looked the web for any reasonably inexpensive fixes for lowering the seat but to no avail.

renesisgenesis

But that completely fails to explain why the same person, (me) has more head room (torso related) in a car that, according to the manufacturers' specs, has about 3-4 inches less head room. How in the hell is that possible? If head room is only torso related, then technically I could not drive an s2000 without bending over. Considering I have driven several and can attest to the increased head room over the rx-8, I am afraid that isn't the case.

Something fishy here...


rx8 head room: 970mm
ap1 s2000 head room: 879mm

Sure I have the moon roof or whatever, but that would have to account for at least 5 inches for this to make sense. I doubt it accounts for more than 1 inch.

kersh4w

iTrader: (3)

you have seen the spec for the rx8 without a sunroof. the sunroof eats up a few inches.

and the only thing you can do is cut the foam padding in the drivers side seat in half. i saw one person on the forums do this.

and1kidd

iTrader: (2)

hmm i sit fine in the 8 but when im at a trackday with a helmet on that when i have to slouch to the right. I have the adjustable seats in my 8 i have the bottom cusion in the back all the way down to sit lower and the front part of the bottom raised a little to bring my legs up. It kind of creates a bucket for my *** and allows me to sit lower to the ground.

and1kidd

iTrader: (2)

oh yeah the NSX pics is my new background on my work computer. I have already had 3 people ask me what kind of car it is. HAHA

renesisgenesis

Again, according to the specs, the sunroof only eats up 1.5 inches, which is more than I thought but would still afford the s2000 with about 2 inches less headroom. Which still doesn't explain the increase in room, instead of decrease. Like I said in previous post, unless the sunroof eats up 5 inches, then it doesn't add up.