G Body Seats

[78Delta88]

Just a question for the G Body crew.

Will other GM seats work with the G Body?

I have available some parts cars cloth and leather seats from Buick, Olds and Cadillac.

Most if not all are 6-way electric, several of the cars I can get for as little as $500.

One has the 231 (3.8) with the Eaton Supercharger if any interest I can try to get it.

 

[SS_Malibu]

As long as they're not too wide or too tall you can make just about any seat fit with a little seat mount/frame fabrication. In the case of putting BMW power seats in my Malibu, all I had to do was make a conversion bracket to use the existing mounts in the car with the mounts on the seats.

 

[clean8485]

Many other GM seats will work, but not all of them. GM did us a favour, in that the bolt mounting pattern on the bottom of the seats, where the seat tracks bolt on, is the same for many different GM vehicles, from the late '70s, to the early 2000s. As SS_Malibu has pointed out, some GM seats are too wide or too tall. Most 3rd & 4th generation F body seats will fit, '82-'93 S10 & Blazer, J body (Cavalier & Sunbird/Sunfire), from '82-2005, most of the front wheel drive stuff from the mid '80s, to the late '90s. Also, as SS_Malibu has mentioned, you can adapt other seats to fit, by fabbing an adapter bracket to adapt the seats to the G body bucket seat tracks.

 

[Sweet_Johnny]

All I know is that GM used the same bolt spacing on the bottom of all the bucket seats until about '02 or '04, I forget which. This means just about any GM bucket seat will mount to G Body bucket seat tracks.

 

[78Delta88]

That's what I was hoping. I read through a previous post here from 2017, but figured would be good to just ask.

I have tig and small drill press. Any holes I have to drill will use good stout fender washers or make something. Just in a crash don't want the seats ripping out from the floor.

 

[78Delta88]

These are some of the seats I've been looking at as possibilities. Most are Buick or Cadillac, one is Chevy blazer.

One has a bolster that needs repair one is covered with blankets so not sure what shape its in, but all of them look like 6 Way Electric.

The two Buicks won't go for much, the blazer will be a little more.

 

[81cutlass]

Do you have a 2dr or 4dr?

If you have a 2dr, you need to keep in mind getting seats out of a 2 door donor. 4dr seats wont fold forward and allow access to the back seat.

 

[Sweet_Johnny]

4 dr seats wont fold forward and allow access to the back seat.

And it really, really sucks. Don't try to convince yourself that it's manageable because it's not, at least if you use the back for anything.

 

[08Malibu]

Do you have a 2dr or 4dr?

If you have a 2dr, you need to keep in mind getting seats out of a 2 door donor. 4dr seats wont fold forward and allow access to the back seat.

I have seats out of a fiero. They don’t fold forward like a regular g body seat does, and that’s a pain. I couldn’t imagine if they didn’t fold at all.

 

[SS_Malibu]

My seats do fold forward and recline however, if your sitting in the back seat then you should feel lucky you’re riding in the Malibu at all.