G Body Seats

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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.
Would they be like the Strato buckets the 4 door G's used? I thought someone brought up sometime back that those had the uppers bolted in place so the wouldn't fold.
 
Would they be like the Strato buckets the 4 door G's used? I thought someone brought up sometime back that those had the uppers bolted in place so the wouldn't fold.
They fold forward, but you have to readjust them when you put them back. It’s a slight inconvenience, but an inconvenience nonetheless.
 
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.
i have a question for you. when it comes to seat tracks & whole rig that bolts to floor are there any that are shorter than those in a gbody like 4th gen camaros that will bolt in my ss?
 
i have a question for you. when it comes to seat tracks & whole rig that bolts to floor are there any that are shorter than those in a gbody like 4th gen camaros that will bolt in my ss?
I'm not aware of any direct bolt-ins, however I'm not an expert in the field either. But I've swapped seats in multiple trucks and cars and I've yet to see seat brackets that are the same between platforms. Our G Bodies directly accept parts from many vehicles since it was cost effective for GM, but I believe the seat brackets are unique to the floor pans. And the floor pans are unique to the platform, e.g., A-Body, B-Body, F, G, etc..

I actually have a set of 4th Gen Camaro seats that might end up in my Olds, so I looked at the brackets just now. No dice. It appears that similar to the 3rd Gen Camaro buckets you'd need to drill a hole or 3 in your floor and utilize spacers as well. I've done that before, and I don't recommend it for a high caliber build, an unmolested survivor barn find, or a cherished keepsake. It works and you can do it safely, but it's more work than it's worth to make it look nice, and having a slightly tilted seat will really mess up your back. As a young guy with 9 lives and a good back I used carriage bolts with lug nuts as spacers to hold Recaro seats in an '86 C10. I was 16. Next time I welded in plates, washers, and studs and still wasn't happy with the appearance.

You could fab your own adapter brackets to make the Camaro seat brackets (which are shorter than the G Body ones) fit the floor, but it might defeat the original purpose. It just may work out beautifully though. If someone can provide a measurement from front/rear floor mounting points to the seat bottom for the factory G Body bucket seat brackets I can do the same for the 4th Gen Camaro brackets. With that information a little math will show how much room there is for an adapter. Basically the factory bracket height (-) the 1" you need is the new maximum working room under seat. The Camaro brackets (+) adapters just have to be less than that, and the adapters can't block seat movement.

I don't like the regular bucket brackets either so I intend to mount Camaro seats in a G Body using a set of G Body 6 way power adjustable split bench seat bases, slightly modified to accept the seats. This is only an option for me because the bases came in my El Camino. I feel it might be the easiest option in your scenario as well as it solves the height issue and you can keep the nice seats. But the power bases aren't cheap and the early ones are more prone to breaking due to having 1 motor and a transmission that gets overworked.
 
I welded together an adapter frame to bolt to my floor mounts so the new seats I used could bolt to to the adapter frame. I used 1/4 x 2” and some 2” angle.

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Then mounted my shifter where I wanted it.
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I'm not aware of any direct bolt-ins, however I'm not an expert in the field either. But I've swapped seats in multiple trucks and cars and I've yet to see seat brackets that are the same between platforms. Our G Bodies directly accept parts from many vehicles since it was cost effective for GM, but I believe the seat brackets are unique to the floor pans. And the floor pans are unique to the platform, e.g., A-Body, B-Body, F, G, etc..

I actually have a set of 4th Gen Camaro seats that might end up in my Olds, so I looked at the brackets just now. No dice. It appears that similar to the 3rd Gen Camaro buckets you'd need to drill a hole or 3 in your floor and utilize spacers as well. I've done that before, and I don't recommend it for a high caliber build, an unmolested survivor barn find, or a cherished keepsake. It works and you can do it safely, but it's more work than it's worth to make it look nice, and having a slightly tilted seat will really mess up your back. As a young guy with 9 lives and a good back I used carriage bolts with lug nuts as spacers to hold Recaro seats in an '86 C10. I was 16. Next time I welded in plates, washers, and studs and still wasn't happy with the appearance.

You could fab your own adapter brackets to make the Camaro seat brackets (which are shorter than the G Body ones) fit the floor, but it might defeat the original purpose. It just may work out beautifully though. If someone can provide a measurement from front/rear floor mounting points to the seat bottom for the factory G Body bucket seat brackets I can do the same for the 4th Gen Camaro brackets. With that information a little math will show how much room there is for an adapter. Basically the factory bracket height (-) the 1" you need is the new maximum working room under seat. The Camaro brackets (+) adapters just have to be less than that, and the adapters can't block seat movement.

I don't like the regular bucket brackets either so I intend to mount Camaro seats in a G Body using a set of G Body 6 way power adjustable split bench seat bases, slightly modified to accept the seats. This is only an option for me because the bases came in my El Camino. I feel it might be the easiest option in your scenario as well as it solves the height issue and you can keep the nice seats. But the power bases aren't cheap and the early ones are more prone to breaking due to having 1 motor and a transmission that gets overworked.
now that i got a chance to reply, thanx. i'm guessin you een my previous posts bout my seats. i'm not lookin for a inch outta the seat, i'm lookin (if gonna stay with this) i need a 1/2 inch drop for leg room cuz im scraping my knees hardcore to get in on the end bolts of my hand controls. the big issue is that seat bun door side bolster that the killer i been tryin to get around. i bought nothin nor locked into somethin ATM. i appreciate your input.
 
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Ahh, I see. I knew you needed the room but didn't consider why. Since your situation involves more than the topic of this thread I'd like to continue this conversation over there to prevent hijacking this one- I have questions for you regarding the hand controls.
 
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