What Did You Do To Your G-Body Today? [2021]

[81cutlass]

Yelled and cussed at my own stupidity

Wanted to try to fit some seats into my car, because the factory buckets suck. Bought seats a few years back and just stored them... Finally getting around to throwing them in... Not gonna work, footprint is simply too wide.

So now I have 2 front bucket that I have to somehow sell off... Which no one is gonna buy....

$400 lesson I won't make again.

That being said, anyone have any recommendations for aftermarket seats that have sliders / or can have sliders, that hinge forward to let people in the back seat?

I had good luck with early W body buckets in my GP.

How To Mount W-body bucket seats in a G-body

I searched for a how-to on this topic and have seen a lot of people do it, but nobody has shown measurements or details, so here is how I did mine. We have reached a point where G body buckets (newest are +30 years old) are very hard to find in the salvage yards in good shape. Even if you are...

gbodyforum.com

 

[Injectedcutty]

Yelled and cussed at my own stupidity

Wanted to try to fit some seats into my car, because the factory buckets suck. Bought seats a few years back and just stored them... Finally getting around to throwing them in... Not gonna work, footprint is simply too wide.

So now I have 2 front bucket that I have to somehow sell off... Which no one is gonna buy....

$400 lesson I won't make again.

That being said, anyone have any recommendations for aftermarket seats that have sliders / or can have sliders, that hinge forward to let people in the back seat?

I had some ebay specials in my Cutlass for years that came in black vinyl. They looked nice, comfortable, and reclined/tilted as needed. I mounted them to the factory sliders so they sat a bit high.
I just bought/installed new Procar Elite's a couple months ago. They have vehicle specific sliders that could use some tweaking, but I didn't feel like messing with them. One pic is the GBOTM pic, but here are seats from other angle...

 

[Jakefromstatefarm]

I really like your interior, I am going all black as well. Your car overall is very clean. Those look very comfy and I've looked them up a few times. Was just hoping I would be able to make the ones I bought work because everything is manual, up - down, front - back, lumbar, recline and the best feature of all was the seat belt loop/holder was the seat back release to unlock it, tilt full forward and unlock seat track and slide forward all by lifting that seat belt loop on the shoulder of the seat ... But they just won't fit..

 

[MalibuDavyou5]

Well I finally got the news today. The SBC 350 is-a-go! Technician said there is some debris or some stuff they can see in the Valley, and I was asked if they could pull the intake off to clean it out, I agreed, and tomorrow I will be contacting them again to setup when to pick up the Malibu. But the information on how the engine sounded was vague, I am told the Technician is happy with the engine. I guess I'll find out when I get it.

Soon! . . . .

 

[Tomicamino]

Getting there, try to start it today

 

[motorheadmike]

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Where on God's green Earth did you find that setup?


Here are some articles on it:

Auto-nomics - AiRSensors History

This is the official website for Auto-nomics.

auto-nomics.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com

 

[butch2427]

Save these GBODY's from becoming derby cars! (not my ad)
Spokane, Wa area

Craigslist link:

Derby cars - cars & trucks - by owner - vehicle automotive sale

I've got 3 potential derby cars, 2 olds cutlass supreme, 1 malibu, they are cars that ran when parked, don't know if or how well they run now. Have titles for two of them.

spokane.craigslist.org

 

[Ribbedroof]

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I haven't seen a B&M injection unit since I sold one new in 1986. Guy REALLY wanted a blower under the hood of his Corvette.

 

[MalibuDavyou5]

Got a call while at work from the shop today. They tore the engine down a bit for cleaning and discovered allot of sludge and dirty oil on the bottom. Suggestion is to replace the Connecting Rod Bearings, eliminating what just happened to the Malibu's 229 V6 . . A Spun Bearing. I agreed to the replacement bearings. I did inquire about the Crankshaft, they tell me its fine. Going to be some time next week the car itself goes to the shop.

 

[Tomicamino]

Where on God's green Earth did you find that setup?


Here are some articles on it:

Auto-nomics - AiRSensors History

This is the official website for Auto-nomics.

auto-nomics.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com

Found it on ebay 3 years ago, electronics was broken, fixed that and replaced injectors with help from Bruce at auto-nomicks, have been running 2 years with it, first year with gas, then with ethanol, 305 engine, making 365hp