Scored some seats

[NO_H2O]

Well my friend Dave(TDI Guy) hooked me up at the salvage yard his nieghbor manages. He got me a pair of sport seats from a 2003 Celica GTS. Best part was the price, just come and get-em. He got some seats for his Jeep and a A-4 Jetta hood that he wants to get a mold from to make Carbon Fiber hoods(he used to work in the composite shop at Delta, Now works in the 5 axis router shop). Anyway, here are the pix of them in Daves shop, still dirty. Can't wait to see them clean and installed.
I think I will try to make some mounting brakets from flat stock steel and bolt them thru the floor with bar straps on the bottom of the pan. Any other ideas?

[Rob]

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D@mn ! those are nice seats !
Do they have good side-support ?
Can't believe you got them for free.....crazy !
Good for you.

Rob.

[boygenius]

I would bolt them to your seat rails since they are stronger than the floor and that way there won't be bars of steel sticking out the bottom of your car. Or if you have any VW seats that are falling apart you could use the bottom of them to weld to the celica seats to take up the height differance and also retain the stock slider funtion.

[zen]

those are going to look great in your car. ver cool score. i would weld to the stock frames if you can just to make height easy. you saw how big my mounts are and i am sitting pretty close to the floor because of the chop. my brackets and sliders weigh twice as much as the seats themselves.

[NO_H2O]

I had a set of 71-72 seats but I gave them away last year. I don't want to cut the seats that are in it now. Maybe I can find a set of donor bottoms to cut up and weld to these.

[Panelfantastic]

They look awesome. I've got $500 tied up in mine and they don't look that good!

[petevw]

Originally Posted by boygenius

Or if you have any VW seats that are falling apart you could use the bottom of them to weld to the celica seats to take up the height differance and also retain the stock slider funtion.

thats what i did with my VR6 seats. slides back/forth, and up/down.

[ajracer]

Just a thought along with the others mentioned. I also didn't want
to cut or damage my seat frame/floor rails, so I had a friend make
or bend a bottom "<-->" upside down C shaped rail / slider about
same length as the original bottom "seat rail". I then checked out
height I wanted and where I wanted my seat (pair Japanese seats)
before fabricating some vertical channel steel to which I welded the
complete slider unit from my new seats. Hopefully the verbal picture
is explanatory so far.

Now since I used new sliders/seat rails and in order to complete the
install I needed to "anchor" the new seat rails to the floor rails (since
I didn't need any adjustments; they were part of my new seats). So
I did a little modification (incidential and not seen); I drilled a 1/4" hole
on each rail, through my fab rails and through floor rail (only) inserted
a quality bolt/nut to keep each of the rails from moving; and gives the
ablility to "set" new seat frame in place where you want it. That's it !
Looks good, functional and solid. Hopefully this will help someone.

Allan