We've had this seat sitting around since last year's challenge. I'm sure Jimmy is smiling below because its not in his garage anymore! We picked up this seat for cheap because it was used, and the previous owners didn't fit in it any more. It was mounted in a fiero that I believe now competes in the
24 hours of lemons. You can see the large aluminum panel we had to cut off of the back of the seat.
We took apart our driver's side seat, and we are using the stock seat rail as the base for our custom seat slider.
We cut all the unnecessary brackets off the sliders
We picked up some 1" x 1" steel bar and cut it to fit the sliders. This will keep the sliders aligned. We're using the L brackets that came with our used seat.
I had to mount the L-brackets backwards in order to keep our square tubing square whileI welded it to the sliders.
Jimmy heats up part of the slider in order to bend it more easily.
Completely welded, with all mounting holes already drilled. We had to drill them before welding.
It all bolted together quite easily because we took our time and didn't make any mistakes.
Here I am tighetening the seat rail bolts
There it is. A used Kirkey's seat, some square bar and an old seat rail.
We've had this seat sitting around since last year's challenge. I'm sure Jimmy is smiling below because its not in his garage anymore! We picked up this seat for cheap because it was used, and the previous owners didn't fit in it any more. It was mounted in a fiero that I believe now competes in the 24 hours of lemons. You can see the large aluminum panel we had to cut off of the back of the seat.
We took apart our driver's side seat, and we are using the stock seat rail as the base for our custom seat slider.
We cut all the unnecessary brackets off the sliders
We picked up some 1" x 1" steel bar and cut it to fit the sliders. This will keep the sliders aligned. We're using the L brackets that came with our used seat.
I had to mount the L-brackets backwards in order to keep our square tubing square whileI welded it to the sliders.
Jimmy heats up part of the slider in order to bend it more easily.
Completely welded, with all mounting holes already drilled. We had to drill them before welding.
It all bolted together quite easily because we took our time and didn't make any mistakes.
Here I am tighetening the seat rail bolts
There it is. A used Kirkey's seat, some square bar and an old seat rail.
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3 comments:
Cool! Nice work.
The Fiero will be a twin turbo fire breathing v8 monster that will compete in the $200X challenge. That is as soon as our fat asses start working on it. LOL Now we have to find a seat. The Bavaria is our lemons car.
THanks tony.
Hi Dustin, thanks for the correction, do you have a build blog? Its nice to hear that we may have some friendly competition, I look forward to meeting you...
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