Thread: re- doing seats help..

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Here is a question.. Seeing that I have so many seats now.. My only real problem is getting from the front to the back. Those van seats don't tilt foward. They do recline though.. When you pull up on the handle.. The seat will fly back up and hit a stop of some kind.. Now if I cut that stop out.. Would the seat then go past the stop and tilt more foward?? Then I could use the seats I have.. Al

Originally Posted by slantback37

Here is a question.. Seeing that I have so many seats now.. My only real problem is getting from the front to the back. Those van seats don't tilt foward. They do recline though.. When you pull up on the handle.. The seat will fly back up and hit a stop of some kind.. Now if I cut that stop out.. Would the seat then go past the stop and tilt more foward?? Then I could use the seats I have.. Al

Al, I think it would be worth it to go sit in the G6 seats before you decide to do that. I think they'll probably be more firm, more supportive and more comfortable than the conversion van seats, plus you wouldn't have to recover them. The other day when I was looking on the Duluth craigslist, someone was looking for van conversion seats. Maybe you could sell yours to that guy (unless that poster was you. )

As for my back seats, they were a initially a little tall and were restricting what little view I had out the back glass so I took about 1.5" off the bottom of the seat back by cutting and rewelding the lower edge of the seat frame. They are built so the fabric unhooks and the foam comes off very easily. Unfortunately, I did't take pics of that part of the process... Here's a link that shows how another guy cut the backs of the GTO seats to fit in his 70's Camaro. http://www.nastyz28.com/forum/showth...=160509&page=2 He cut a lot more than I did but you can get an idea of his process. If the G6 seats are made with the same kind of frame work, the process for trimming those down would probably be very similar to this. My seat backs are still not flush with the package shelf but I intend to use the GTO package shelf as the basis for building one that fits the contour of the seats and with have space under it for speakers, amps, etc.

Also, I did raise my original packing shelf about 1.75" to help with the height adjustment and because of the way I fabricated the seat belt brackets for the rear.