[FC] seats

[Ken Hand]

??? Have you read my article? If you had then you wouldn't be making these comments. I did not beat the wheel wells and the seat was about 5 degrees off center and 3/4 of an inch higher than factory with fully reclining seats. I to hit my head on every bump until I put my modified springs in the front. The seats I used only covered the begining of the?rounded part of the wheel well, but how big is your butt anyway? 


Ken Hand
248-613-8586
www.corvairmechanic.com 


-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Weirmier <wmaw at shaw.ca>
To: corvanatics at corvair.org
Sent: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 11:13 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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