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blup58 Officially Full-On Dubber

216 posts · joined Oct 2002 ·

#77230
G'day All

Who can tell me the best way to get the seats shown below into a beetle....

My pan is a 58 and I was hoping to some how modify the seat frames to take these seats.

The seats have 4 bolt holes in the base of each.

I realise there is the legalality side of modifying the seat frames etc. What I want is a way that an engineer will most likely sign of on (assuming all welds are good)..but will still be simple and effective.

My thoughts without having looked to closely were to take my existing seat frames, cut of the bits I don't need and weld a couple of plates to the frames with holes to allow some bolts to pass through the plate and into the seats.....

Thoughts??? Has anyone done this before???

If I weld the plates to the top bar of the seat frame how do you think I will go on height and position???

Any photos of someone who has done this or links etc

Cheers

Brad

blup58 Officially Full-On Dubber

216 posts · joined Oct 2002 ·

#77231
Piccy

[Edited on 22-8-2003 by blup58]

blup58 Officially Full-On Dubber

216 posts · joined Oct 2002 ·

#77232
One more try

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Bizarre Moderator The artist formerly known as blue74l

12,787 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#77235
This is what i did

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Bizarre Moderator The artist formerly known as blue74l

12,787 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#77236
and another view

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Bizarre Moderator The artist formerly known as blue74l

12,787 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#77238
Basically the new seat is welded to a VW base and it just slides on

You may need to support/raise/brace it to get it to the height you want but that is about it

Hey nice seats - 911??

[Edited on 22-8-2003 by blue74l]
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vw54 Administrator Always Waiting 4 Friday

16,723 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#77256
Give us a pic of the base of the seats you want to fit into your car...

You have to try the height as you may need to cut the frame down
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68AutoBug Beetle Restorer - Experience over 138\% - YIKES --

11,654 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#77269
Yes, I really like those seats...
a bit better than normal VW ones !!!]
Lee
- Helping keep Air Cooled VWs on the road - location: SCONE in the Upper Hunter Valley - Northern NSW 320 kms NNW of SYDNEY---

wadd Seriously Crusin Dubber

179 posts · joined Apr 2003 ·

#77280
great looking seats if it`s not a secret what they out of

555bug WRX Bug Boy

1,123 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#77393
they look like 944 seats to me.

BiX Veteran Volks Folk

2,499 posts · joined Sep 2002 ·

#77627
here are some shots of mine. its qld approved. I think its like what u want to do. This seat is alot lower than standard. There is no rear leg room. Try using spacers to get the rite height. Iam a big guy so its nice to have it low and far back.

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BiX Veteran Volks Folk

2,499 posts · joined Sep 2002 ·

#77628
closer view

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BiX Veteran Volks Folk

2,499 posts · joined Sep 2002 ·

#77631
side view

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