RedJet
Jan 10th, 09, 10:45 AM
I have taken a little brake from my fuel injection project and decided that it would be much more compfortable to work on tuning the car if I had a place to sit... I picked up a set of leather trans-am seats on e-bay I have seen some guys have good luck using these in their first gen camaros so I thought I would give it a a try. The drivers seat is 6 way power, both the passenger and drivers seat have lumbar support, both seats manually recline and tilt forward for access to the rear seat and finally the passenger seat adjusts manually.
As always they were not in the promises condition on Ebay which is unfortunate, but since I will probably use the stock rear seat I will get quotes recover all of the seats at the same time, and maybe even stitch up a leather cover for my stock steering wheel...
The nice thing about this installation is that I was able to use the front mounting holes on both seats.
9020
These are pictures of the passenger, but the driver seat fit also.
The rear brackets needed some work to get mounted. I started with the passenger seat.
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9031
As you can see they are pretty close.
So I removed the seat and and ground off the rivets holding the brackets on the rail.
9023
In hind sight I am not sure if I needed to do this on the inboard bracket but I replaced the rivets with grade 8 bolts and reenforced them with welds.
Here is the outboard bracket for the passenger seat. I first cut the top of the bracket off and welded it on facing the opposite direction.
9024
I then bolted it to the frame and measured for the mounting hole in the floor. Then I cut the bottom of the bracket off and mocked it up to get the position correct.
9025
I tacked it in place with my MIG and then removed to weld it completely on both sides. Here is a picture of the bracket after the welding.
9026
On the inboard side I did not need to modify the top of the bracket, only the bottom. So I cut it apart and mocked it up using the same technique as above.
9029
The drivers side was actually much easier. I purchased some flat steel bar material from Lowes, measured, cut, drilled the mounting holes and welded it up.
Here is how it turned out.
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9028
This project is obviously not done, but wanted to contribute to the knowledge base here... for better or worse.
BTW - Does anyone have a wiring diagram for these seats? I have figured out power and ground, but the controls are a little elusive...
As always they were not in the promises condition on Ebay which is unfortunate, but since I will probably use the stock rear seat I will get quotes recover all of the seats at the same time, and maybe even stitch up a leather cover for my stock steering wheel...
The nice thing about this installation is that I was able to use the front mounting holes on both seats.
9020
These are pictures of the passenger, but the driver seat fit also.
The rear brackets needed some work to get mounted. I started with the passenger seat.
9030
9031
As you can see they are pretty close.
So I removed the seat and and ground off the rivets holding the brackets on the rail.
9023
In hind sight I am not sure if I needed to do this on the inboard bracket but I replaced the rivets with grade 8 bolts and reenforced them with welds.
Here is the outboard bracket for the passenger seat. I first cut the top of the bracket off and welded it on facing the opposite direction.
9024
I then bolted it to the frame and measured for the mounting hole in the floor. Then I cut the bottom of the bracket off and mocked it up to get the position correct.
9025
I tacked it in place with my MIG and then removed to weld it completely on both sides. Here is a picture of the bracket after the welding.
9026
On the inboard side I did not need to modify the top of the bracket, only the bottom. So I cut it apart and mocked it up using the same technique as above.
9029
The drivers side was actually much easier. I purchased some flat steel bar material from Lowes, measured, cut, drilled the mounting holes and welded it up.
Here is how it turned out.
9027
9028
This project is obviously not done, but wanted to contribute to the knowledge base here... for better or worse.
BTW - Does anyone have a wiring diagram for these seats? I have figured out power and ground, but the controls are a little elusive...