May sure you use really heavy foam on the headrests. I have the replacement foams that Rimmer sells, and the headrest foam was not especially heavy. Where it goes around the metal at the top, you can easily feel the metal right underneath it. If I ever got rear-ended, the foam would be effectively useless, and I would have essentially direct skull-to-metal contact. Of course, the seat back would collapse before I had any serious cranial injury :-)
Go feel the foam of the headrests of a modern car. It is REALLY stiff. It would almost make more sense to use molded styrofoam pieces (sort of like the inside of a bike helmet), covered with a thin foam layer, than 100% foam. Overall, I found that the Rimmer seat foams were nicely made, but the material was WAY too soft, especially around the edges of the seat base. Also, the original foams had a genuine molded latex rubber seat base, which is a far superior (and more expensive) material than plastic foam. Doug Braun '72 Spit At 10:05 AM 4/9/02 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Doug, Paul, you confirmed my thoughts. > >Quick extra question on the head restraints. Looks like they are simply a heavy piece >of foam covered with a lighter piece of foam. Any idea what the correct thickness of >the heavy piece is? Looks to be about an inch or sofolded over at teh top. Still have >not taken it all completely apart as yet. I have some of the thin stuff lying about >from another project. I was going to place a full back size piece of the same heavy >foam behind the seat as explained above. May even double it up at the bottom to give >more lumber support as suggested. /// [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list /// Send admin requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] /// or try http://www.team.net/cgi-bin/majorcool /// Archives at http://www.team.net/archive /// Send list postings to [EMAIL PROTECTED] /// Edit your replies! If they include this trailer, they will NOT be sent.
