What a difference an inch makes.

You know "Dozer" I see in your profile you have the word why, and I think to myself. Yeah "WHY?" why you gotta be a dick.

I thought the same thing ddaddy stated, and I think he did it in a reasonably polite way. I'm no engineer but I did stay at a holiday inn express once. What he has done is not a mechanically sound practice.
it's not that I'm being a " dick " as you say. he's a grown man working on his own car doing what he needs to do to make it more comfortable. then the naysayers and safety police come along and tell him it's all f'd up and everything he's done is completely wrong. according to who? have you done crash tests with a seat bolted on spacers? live and let live Christ.