How To: sn95 seats (04 cobra) in a fox coupe (MANY pics)

[oldfox]

Ok,, Sorry my car is a hatch back, But the seats are all 04 except the backing boards I reused the fox ones. Nothing was recovered. Out of the 04 and into the 91
Lee

 

[West Texas Z]

Old Fox, do you have pics of them in your hatch? I'm wanting to do the switch to mine. Thanks.

 

[trbkrb]

Old Fox, do you have pics of them in your hatch? I'm wanting to do the switch to mine. Thanks.

I guess he moved his pics. But I have many pics of mine in this thread from a few years ago:

2002 seats in a 1991 GT How to get them in?! - Corral Forums

Here is a pic:

 

[West Texas Z]

Thanks!

 

[2L8IWON]

Great,gouge

 

[91canadiannotchback]

Here's the How-To thread for making sn95 seats fit in a fox coupe. The seats I used were "midnight black" leather with gray suede inserts from a 2004 Cobra that was wrecked. I don't think anyone has ever done a write-up on how to get these smaller seats (the rear seat is the major problem, as the rear seat backs are two pieces and much smaller than the stock coupe rear seat). I was discouraged at first after seeing the fitment of the reat seat, and was pretty close to just getting a rear seat delete kit. After a few minutes of thinking and tinkering i figured out a way to make them work. The seats were thoroughly cleaned and conditioned before installation, and it made a world of difference. Okay, enough blabbering, let's get started!

Dirty, dry and dusty seats the way i got them (this guy didn't take good care of his interior )

After a 2 hour complete cleaning, suede brushing and conditioning, and leather conditioning, they look much better

Here's what i used to clean them, the suede brush was bought from a local shoe store

Full power

New wiring to power the seats, basically put a splitter wire on the 12v power source on the stock fox plug (see Mustang5L5s progress thread for pics)

Installed! the fronts bolt right in

rear seats cleaned up and conditioned just like the fronts

here's a shot of the foam cut out from the seat bottom, pretty self explanatory, just see where it hits the floor and cut it out, this part was a lot of trial and error

here are the wooden triangles i secured with 90 degree L brackets to the floor pan, the dimensions are 5" tall x 20" long, i'm not sure how one would secure these without drilling into the floor pans, feel free to chime in with a way if you can think of anything, i know some people might be weary of drilling into their fox's floors... and luckily all my fingers survived using the table saw disclaimer: i suggest goggles for this part or calling someone who is comfortable with power tools if you've never used a machine like this before /endLegalBS

i secured the seat backs with cable ties through the trunk area, and here's a shot of the gap left on the sides, THIS is the problem unique to doing this kind of thing in a coupe

to fill the gaps i made a template of the space out of paper, and used a crayon to make a rubbing of the boundaries

finished template

here are the materials i found at a local wal-mart, $8.50 for the gray carpeting and $14.99 for the foam

i traced the shape of the template and built up the foam in three dimensions to fill the gap, and then reversed it for the opposite side (just trace the pieces for the first side in reverse before gluing them)

i'm a lot of things, but a seamstress isn't one of them, so sewing these damn things took me a long time, but they came out pretty good all wrapped in carpeting

passenger side fit and finished

driver side fit and finished

FINALLY THE WHOLE REAR SEAT IS DONE! you can barely tell there was ever a gap there with these in place

and here are pics of the finished product! i plan on switching to a black carpet and even tossing around the idea of keeping the gray floor mats on top of the black carpet, to keep the black and gray theme going... we'll see, enjoy!

I hope this thread is useful to anyone trying to do this kind of thing in their own coupe, feel free to PM me or post replies with questions or comments

Chris

Hey Chris, great pics! Thanks. It answered a few questions as I have a pair of seats I got for 75 bucks and want to drop them in my 91. How about the mounting points? They all line up or do I need track extenders or similar rework? No problems with the splice for power seats I imagine? Do the bolts for mounting provide the ground? I see only 1 line spliced, the power.

 

[trbkrb]

Hey Chris, great pics! Thanks. It answered a few questions as I have a pair of seats I got for 75 bucks and want to drop them in my 91. How about the mounting points? They all line up or do I need track extenders or similar rework? No problems with the splice for power seats I imagine? Do the bolts for mounting provide the ground? I see only 1 line spliced, the power.

Nice that this thread popped up again. Chris did a great job putting together a whole lot of the various pieces to this swap in a concice post with great pictures! As for your questions, the front seats bolt right in with the original tracks the seats came with. If you want to use the Fox tracks, they can be used but might need some work to mount them to the bottom of the new seat. But since you are asking about the power wires, I guess you are using the power track. The Fox lumbar plug has a power and a ground. The newer seats have a ground and two power wires, so splitting the power into two is the easiest way. One power is for the track, the other is the lumbar I believe. I was trying to find the picture of the wiring harness I put together about 18 years ago when I first put the 02 seats in my 87. I'm not at home or I'd just go take another picture. If you have questions, just lmk. Mine is a hatch, so I don't know for sure about a coupe rear.

 

[Mustang5L5]

Looks who has returned

 

[trbkrb]

Looks who has returned

Hey, I get an email, and I jump on! I've been lurking a bit more this year.