"MM54" (mm54mk2)
08/20/2015 at 19:56 • Filed to: None
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"MM54" (mm54mk2)
08/20/2015 at 19:56 • Filed to: None | 2
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Hey Oppo. I’ll try to keep this short (I tend to ramble).
Saturday morning I’m heading to the junkyard to pick out a Sporty Seat for a project I’m working on, and I have two questions for your collective knowledges:
1) What array of tools should I bring to remove seats from potentially anything? I know what I’d need for, say, my car, but not what other cars typically use to bolt the rails down.
2) What cars should I be on the lookout for to find a good seat? Keep in mind this is on a budget and in a junkyard - I know FR-S seats are absolutely perfect (to my body size at least) but I’m not likely to find such a thing.
Thanks, have a Seat for your time.
(I’m trusting google on this one, I know nothing about the brand. It was a pun)
Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection
> MM54
08/20/2015 at 20:18 |
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I work in an aftermarket upholstery shop where the guys in the back pull seats out of cars every day. You’ll need:
A variety of sockets. I think Honda and Toyota use 13mm bolts and most American cars use metric after the late 70s. Impact sockets are great if you have them.
A breaker bar. Seats are typically bolted into the subframe or a reinforced part of the body and intended to stay put during crashes. Junkyard seats will have rust so a breaker bar will be very helpful. An electric impact wrench would be best.
A can of PB Blaster. Penetrates threads to get rusty bolts loose
Wire cutters. Most electrical components in the seats are routed through one plug. Clip the wire on the body side to Speed up the job.
As far as cars to look for, mk.iv and mk.v GTI have great sport seats. Mustangs came with recaro seats in a number of years. Miata, S2000, and Boxsters can be found too and those seats have a good amount of bolstering.
Amoore100
> MM54
08/20/2015 at 21:04 |
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And yes, Seat does exist as a carmaker. It’s part of the VAG group and is therefore just a bunch of rebadged VWs nowadays, much like Skoda. Originally it had Spanish heritage, however, and is reputed to be pronounced “Say-ott”...
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MM54
> Amoore100
08/20/2015 at 21:26 |
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I mean, I know it exists (hence I could google it for the sake of the pun) thanks to Forza, I just know nothing about their cars or if that is even one of them.
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MM54
> Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection
08/20/2015 at 21:32 |
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Thanks! I have all of those things (except impact tools... some day...) so I’ll just plan to take a full metric socket set (and my SAE one but it stays in the car unless needed - don’t like taking S*Ks into junkyards...), my 16 and 24” breaker bars, b’laster, and typical hand tools (pliers, snips, etc).
Sounds like a typical junkyard run at this point!
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Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection
> MM54
08/20/2015 at 22:22 |
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Also VAG, Chrysler and GM sometimes use strange fasteners. Chrysler uses Philips MorTorq on some cars,
And VAG has their spline drive.
GM sometimes uses reverse torx.
I was just thinking a Mitsubishi 3000GT could be a good candidate for sport seats.
