Need possible ways to raise up the a 350z seats !!
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I would not user rubber blocks, or anything remotely maleable to accomplish this - you're asking for trouble IMHO should the car ever be in a serious enough accident. Even a hard rubber block can just shear itself in a serious enough impact, especially if you have a metal bolt running through it.
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i can reach the pedals, just the view isnt good enough, i used to drive a camery so.. the view is totally different between em. wanted to raise it a bit to see the whole view.
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The rubber block only acts as a spacer, there's no connection between the seat and the rubber block. You buy longer bolts, they pass through the rubber blocks and screw into the original mounting points in the floor. Even if the rubber is sheared, damaged, or somehow separated from the bolt, the bolt is still holding the seat.
exactly - and that rubber is also now preventing the longer bolt from fully threading into the hole because it's acting as a spacer. Meaning you have a very real chance of that bolt snapping in an accident. If you look at the bolt used to secure the seat base to the floor, you'll see it is fully threaded when torqued properly. Spacing it upwards in something that itself is not solid, and not threaded, seems like an unnecessary risk.
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But a long bolt through a rubber spacer has an exposed portion that is not threaded through anything..and that unsecured portion is now the weak link/fulcrum of the bolt in the event of an accident. To have the bolt be fully secured, it needs to be fully threaded/engaged
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