F-Body Seats

[RustRocket]

Hi there, just wondering if F-Body seats swap into the G-Bodies. A buddy of mine has an 82 Camaro that he will be putting racing seats in, and he said I could have his old seats. So, is it a direct swap, or is there metal/fab work or anything like that involved? Thanks in advance

 

[pagrunt]

If I could remember right, those '80's seat should just need the G-Body track to replace the F-Body ones. Those should be similar to the Strato buckets used in the G-Bodies. Think even the J, X, & FWD A-Bodies used similar, if not the same seat frames.

 

[clean8485]

As long as you have the proper floor mounts for bucket seats, and the correct G body bucket seat tracks, as pagrunt has pointed out, then the Camaro bucket seats should work fine. I swapped seats in my '84 Monte last winter. In the process of figuring out exactly which seats that I wanted to use, I tried bucket seats from an '84 Buick GN, my original '84 Monte bucket seats, a bucket seat from an '89 Firebird GTA, a '96-'98 Grand Am bucket seat (the ones that I eventually decided to use BTW), and one of the front bucket seats from my 2004 Cavalier DD, and all of these different bucket seats bolted directly to my Monte bucket seat track, with no modifications whatsoever. The trick here is to use bucket seats with the correct bucket seat track. As nearly as I can tell, GM did not change the seat track bolt mounting pattern on most of their bucket seats for at least 30 years. There probably are some exceptions to this, but I don't think that there are too many though.