Just done a bit more... managed to get the car started again, turns out all it needed was for me to stop being lazy and charge the battery!! I bought this seat a while back, but hadn't got round to making up a bracket for it so cracked into it yesterday. Once I got into it, it was pretty simple ... I'm glad I did it myself instead of paying £100 odd for one that someone else made, I did it with bits of plate steel I had in the garage so it didn't cost me a penny!
Old seat
New seat - the top of the new seat is about 1.5 inches lower than the old one, but the seat is more like 3 inches lower.
Colour match is pretty good as well... its out of a VX220, the Elise version is too light a colour.
Russell.