My uncle and I took the passenger seat out and started trying to fit the Tiburon seats last night.
Where your butt sits, the seats are about the same width as the stock Camaro seats and about the same height so that's really good; unfortunately, the track width is around 5" wider and the length between the holes is about 2.5" longer IIRC. Among other things, this will cause the seat bottom to be a bit higher off the floor than stock. This may be a problem for me.
I think we will get them to work, but it's not an easy install if you want to use the stock hole locations in the floor. That's what I'd like to do. So we are going to need to fab up some fairly intricate adapter brackets. The biggest challenge will be keeping the seats low enough that I can still get under the steering wheel and not hit my head on the ceiling.
We're going to make a temporary bracket out of 16ga to adjust and place where we want and then make the final one out of "real" metal once we've figured everything out.
Some pro's to these seats so far are that they came out of a 2 door car, so they have a lever near the top of the seat that slides them all the way forward and tilts the back forward. This is handy for back seat passengers. Also, there are a lot of notches for fore/aft adjustment and total travel is like 7" compared to the stock 3" or so.
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