fitting a bucket seat - MY experiences

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ollielsd
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Post Mon Jun 05, 2006 7:33 pm

just finished off fitting a bucket seat in my e30 and thought id knock up a quick post to demonstrate what i did.

first off - meet betty

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this is what many ppl will se when trying to figure how / where to mount a seat

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you, ve got two m10 studs at the front and two m10 threads at the rear. what i did was make up two rail going left to right on the car with tubes welded in for the rear bolts to pass thru and machined "cups" for the front studs. After measuring the "square" made by the bolt holes in the seat runners, i measured it all up and welded machined bosses into the rails, with m8 studs for the rails

(sorry for the grind marks etc - they were dont in my lunch break!!)

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the rail were then painted and bolted into the car

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the seat runners were then loosely bolted down (NOTE: locking nuts - you dont want these coming loose!!)

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and then finally the seat was bolted in to set the width of the runners and these were all tighten in. add harness and voila!

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(sorry the pic is on its side!!!!)

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any questions comments - please add - il be happy to help
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Post Mon Jun 05, 2006 7:53 pm

ha, did you tig weld that, abit posh for a seat rail. i did kind of the same but mine has a sliding rail bolted to the seat as i can never get the seat right if its bolted in
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Post Mon Jun 05, 2006 8:55 pm

ant2 wrote:ha, did you tig weld that, abit posh for a seat rail. i did kind of the same but mine has a sliding rail bolted to the seat as i can never get the seat right if its bolted in
yeh tig'd it, migs so ugly