OK I forgot to measure it before I stripped the chassis!
Does anyone know the height above the floorpan (or from anywhere really) of the bottom dash rail, or indeed the position of the steering column would be fine?
Ta.

I know it sounds a bit basic, but I don't even have any seats and although I could just guess a position it'd be nice to have even a vague figure if anyone's got a tape near their car?

These are the dimensions I took from my Coupe chassis. It shows the position of the seat subframe mounting holes in the dropped section of the floorpan. The front of the car is at the top. The hole spacings will depend on the seats and the subframes used but this may give you an idea.



As an alternative suggestion I have found the when correctly adjusted the backs of my seats are just touching the bulkhead at the top.

Just a thought Dino, if you're intending to have a full cage for competition then you can use the crosstube between the A posts as your bottom dash rail and steering column support as per racing mini's

Hi John,
Thanks for the drawing, that is actually useful although not really what I'm looking for !
I've mislead you by talking about seats.. What I meant was that because I don't have any seats yet, it's difficult to even sit in the chassis and work out a height for the bottom dash rail.
Tim (the other Tim!) that's exactly what I want to do
But because I'm trying to build the cage in before I finally fit the body it's all becoming a bit of a 'chicken and egg' thing!!

Dino,

I think that the holes for my dash haven't been filled yet on my tub. I'll mount mine in the car tonight and measure where it comes to. I can't guarantee that it is going to be an exact figure, as nothing on my car seems to be normal/standard!

I'll let you know later.

I found the seat thing useful too. But I'm a long way from fitting them!!!

I can probably confirm (or not ) Tims measurments as i've filled the holes but i'm a long long LONG way from painting

ps i've ordered a digital camera

Well, I have measured with the dashboard roughly in place. It looks like it was in about the right position and the measurement from the bottom of the dash, to the floor is 14 1/2". The measurement from the top of the cut out for the steering wheel to the floor was about 17"

Hope this all helps

Thats excellent, thanks very much

Know what you mean about nothing being normal Tim, I'm having fun trying to get the left and right sides to match, my chassis was not exactly what you'd call symmetrical

If you really want to scare youself try measuring from the top of the scuttle to the rear of the floorpan each side of the chassis. There was 1" difference on mine. The floor diagonals were a good way out too. Fortunately I wasn't using mine in the rebuild.

Iv'e maseured 3 chassis and havn't found anything that far out

Mabe 6mm out of equal on the floors, at most

I was amazed when I dropped the F/Glass on the tub at the weekend, that it fitted on really well. Even with all the hacking that it had had done, and with all the work I had done on it too.