[FC] seats

[Ron]

If you want to get right down to it, there's absolutely nothing wrong with 
the stock bench seat in my Rampside.  I don't know whether they were ever 
rebuilt but I've driven it many thousands of miles over the past 14 years 
and consider the seat comfort as very acceptable.  It being so, I'd sure 
never take a hammer to it to install something that may not be as good.
RonH

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Weirmier" <wmaw at shaw.ca>
To: <corvanatics at corvair.org>
Sent: Monday, July 07, 2008 8:13 PM
Subject: Re: [FC] seats


> One thing to keep in mind when considering these seat alternatives is that
> most of these seat conversions require that you beat your wheel wells flat
> to accomodate a seat track on the outboard side of the seat.  Not my
> favorite of solutions.  I dont think any seat out there will get your butt
> close enough to the wheel well to put you any where close to the factory
> seat height.  The factory seat is only about two inches high over the
> wheels.
> I'm by no stretch of the imagination a "tall man" but the westbrier had
> seats in it with the wells bashed in and I hit my head on the roof over
> every bump.
> I.M.H.O.  There's no alternative that beats out the factory bucket with 
> some
> rehupolstery magic put into them.
> I just drove 3500 miles to ventura and back with no back troubles.
> Just my two cents
> Westbrier Mike
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Ken Hand" <vairmech at aol.com>
> To: <corvanatics at corvair.org>
> Sent: Monday, July 07, 2008 4:59 PM
> Subject: Re: [FC] seats
>
>
>> ???? That was Sunbird seats that I used. I would think that if you went 
>> to
>> a wrecking yard and measured the heigth of the seat from the mounting
>> point and got something similar in height to the FC You could make most
>> any seat track work. Keep in mind that the seats that I used were 3/4 of
>> an inch higher than the stock seats.
>>
>>
>> Ken Hand
>> 248-613-8586
>> www.corvairmechanic.com
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Al Kidd <takidd at gmail.com>
>> To: corvanatics at corvair.org
>> Sent: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 12:48 pm
>> Subject: [FC] seats
>>
>>
>>
>> I read Ken Hands description of using mid 80's cavalier/ sunfire seat
>> tracks in
>> his brier.  Does anyone know of any other track that is similar?  Even
>> though
>> they made millions of them those mid 80's cars are nearly impossible to
>> find.
>> Living in the rust belt and with scrap steel at an all time high isnt
>> helping
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