[FC] seats

[Ben's Bus]

I wrote years ago about checking 1980's FC Toyota van seats. I did check a 
few before getting my long awaited set of FC buckets, but never actually 
bought and tried a pair. Bieng FC, they were thin around the wheel well like 
a Corvair van seat.

Ben



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Weirmier" <wmaw at shaw.ca>
To: <corvanatics at corvair.org>
Sent: Monday, July 07, 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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