Today was another one of those “loose end” days. Had several things I needed to resolve and/or test fit so I went after a couple of them. Started with mounting the seat tracks on the seats so I could test fit them in the car. I purchased these seats from one of the members on the site here in Arizona so at least one of you guys should remember them.
Yes, admittedly they look pretty crappy right now but these are pretty rare two year only Lear Sigler seats, similar in design and function to a Recarro. I just like them because they were only available in F-Body’s from 82-85 and have lots of mechanical bolster adjustments.
The seats fit well in the car but without the column, it’s kinda tough to determine how comfortable it will be to drive. One thing I figured out is I probably should have got the longer shifter lever. That’s a relatively easy fix albeit not an inexpensive one.
Next on the list was to cut the hole in the floor for the park brake cable to go through. The straight lines are easy to cut with a die grinder but the rounded corners are impossible. I really need to spring for a plasma cutter. I used a drill and hacked it out but now I need to go back and repair, weld, some of the boo boos up. No, nobody is ever going to see it but I know it’s there.
If you’re looking at the lever bracket and thinking it’s a crappy weld, I can assure you it ain’t gonna budge. Yes, I’m a crappy welder but I’m a worse “call somebody and wait for them to come over and weld it” guy.
With that more or less done, I marked where my rear park brake cable brackets need to be mounted in order to have adjustment when I’m done. I found out Inline Tube cannot make F-Body cables like I’m using so I need to be certain the stock lengths work. It’s really just a matter of where you locate the cable brackets using slow curves with the cable to get where you need to be.
There’s also a center cable bracket that needs to be welded to the floor I took from the F-Body floor pan I bought. This piece essentially guides the lever cable to the center and is where the two rear cables all intersect. I didn’t get photos of that because I’m not done beating the crap out of the bracket so it matches the contour of my floor. It will however comply at some point.
I did route both the rear brake cables and attached them to the backing plates. Couldn’t get the eyelets over the brake actuator levers so like usual, had to get the file out and finesse the parts to make them play nice together.
Scott, ... :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: :wink:
Yes, admittedly they look pretty crappy right now but these are pretty rare two year only Lear Sigler seats, similar in design and function to a Recarro. I just like them because they were only available in F-Body’s from 82-85 and have lots of mechanical bolster adjustments.
The seats fit well in the car but without the column, it’s kinda tough to determine how comfortable it will be to drive. One thing I figured out is I probably should have got the longer shifter lever. That’s a relatively easy fix albeit not an inexpensive one.
Next on the list was to cut the hole in the floor for the park brake cable to go through. The straight lines are easy to cut with a die grinder but the rounded corners are impossible. I really need to spring for a plasma cutter. I used a drill and hacked it out but now I need to go back and repair, weld, some of the boo boos up. No, nobody is ever going to see it but I know it’s there.
If you’re looking at the lever bracket and thinking it’s a crappy weld, I can assure you it ain’t gonna budge. Yes, I’m a crappy welder but I’m a worse “call somebody and wait for them to come over and weld it” guy.
With that more or less done, I marked where my rear park brake cable brackets need to be mounted in order to have adjustment when I’m done. I found out Inline Tube cannot make F-Body cables like I’m using so I need to be certain the stock lengths work. It’s really just a matter of where you locate the cable brackets using slow curves with the cable to get where you need to be.
There’s also a center cable bracket that needs to be welded to the floor I took from the F-Body floor pan I bought. This piece essentially guides the lever cable to the center and is where the two rear cables all intersect. I didn’t get photos of that because I’m not done beating the crap out of the bracket so it matches the contour of my floor. It will however comply at some point.
I did route both the rear brake cables and attached them to the backing plates. Couldn’t get the eyelets over the brake actuator levers so like usual, had to get the file out and finesse the parts to make them play nice together.
Scott, ... :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: :wink: