ooooooh, you had to go there didn't ya! Let's see, if I can pick up some overnight shifts and stop eating out for a few weeks . . . :16suspect
merry christmas to me! Got these seats for $220. Had my buddy pick them up for me in LA. They are a little over $400 new, comes out to $110 each and they are in good shape. And corbeau is a nice brand so if I wanna change them later I'm sure I can turn a profit. http://www.corbeau.com/products/reclining_seats/cr1/
I got the seats for $150 and the foam was in horrible shape. The seats needed recovering too so the guy charged me $400 to reupholster and add foam. pretty steep but I needed them done asap because I had tossed my bench seat stupidly.
I wasn't planning on getting the seats in but I took out the mustang seats out of the mav to paint the rollcage. placed the seats in the bronco since I got no garage. went to drive the bronco to work, bronco died because I didn't pay attention as the water temp was going up. bronco go towed to bryants. I got a ride back home with a coworker to realize that I had no seats in the mav. So . . . here is the corbeau seats going in: super light seats as mentioned before: We test fitted the seats, pretty good. Here it is actually when we got done We figured we needed some spacers. on the driver's side we needed 2.25" in the back on the right side and 1.25" in the front on the right side. I bought the seat tracks (the sliders) along with a 2" bracket for $100. Usually they are $98 each so I got a great deal. We placed the brackets on the floor, used a leveler to make sure it was straight. Cut the spacers to size and placed them under. There are 4 bolts that hold the sliders to the seat, there are 4 bolts holding the bracket to the sliders, and 4 bolts needed to get the brackets to the ground. You have to play around to find the right location. Bryant had me sit in the car with the seat attacked to the sliders and brackets and while I was sitting in there marked it for me. In this pic we took the bolts (3/8") and welded the rear ones to the bracket. Initially we did this because we thought they would be hard to get to with the seats in place but it wasn't totally necessary. Here is a pic with the leveler on the bracket. The bottom of the seats are very simple. So you can make your own bracket to attach the sliders to. The sliders obviously attach directly to the seat. We made the spacers out of some small tubing. Worked out well, some grinding, cutting and sanding. Made MUCH easier with all the awesome tools bryant has. If you look at the floor you can see the back is tilted down a little. I actually wish I had raised the back a little. But I only put a spacer under the right rear side. I left the left rear part of the bracket flush. You can see the tilt a little more in this pic. The reason I would have like the back up a little more is because when you slide your seat forward it also comes up a little, getting your knees close to the steering wheel. A 2" block of wood was a perfect way to figure out the spacing.
wow you went all out on the bracket. nice! all i did was use two steel plates and the stock sliders lol! wait till you see my new seats i got that's not steep... you get what you pay for.
