Progress Thread Jewel Green street/strip 92 LX progress thread

Yup me in it.

Ok to bring everybody up to speed on the progress of my car currently. Car has been a street car this year, just have not had the time or desire to race it. For those that don’t know this car is set up to runTrue Street in NMRA/NMCA events. So it is sporting the “pro touring wheels” since last falls trip to the track.

OK so last October I found a set to 2000 Mustang seats front and rear on CL. So the fronts were installed in the fall and are a BIG step up in comfort then the old fox seats, plus the drivers is power in all directions . I never did get to the back seat installed until this week. I really could not find a good write up on what it takes to put SN95 coupe seats in a fox hatch so here is how I went about it.

I was bent bound to use the original back base on the SN95 but found the mounting points to be totally different. I hated to pull the backing plates and latches out of the fox seats because they are in great shape and plan to sell them with the fronts as a package deal.

So basically what I ended up doing was pull the backing plates out of the fox and SN95 seats, simply install the SN seats upholstery on the fox backing plate. And of course here are the pictures to document the progress. It is really easy once you know what you have to do.

The fox and SN seat side by side, note latch differences


SN95 backing plate removed latch and plate will not be used


Trace and cut off the top of the fox plate to match the contour of the SN plate. I found a sawzall with a fine metal blade worked well.


The finished fox plate is on the left, original SN95 seat on right


Mate the fox plate into the SN95 seat cushion


Trim upholstery to fit around latch opening


Install trim piece, note the fox back upholstery is thicker and the boss for the screws can be cut down so plate fits tighter over the new upholstery. I did not get a picture of this but if you take the plate off you will see what I mean.


I’m not sure how or what I am going to do to cover the old latch holes yet, I have cut the old covers to fit over the top of the seat. The screw holes line up on the edge of the plate so would need to build up with an epoxy to use this. I also thought of adding a loop for a child seat thru the cover slot? Not sure yet??




Finished and installed! The bottom is just setting in there it fits well. I wish when I did all the welding and under side work I had these as I would have installed the SN95 seat support for the bottom cushion.


Picture of the fronts, I am no expert on the SN’s as far upholster but for nonleather I think these look killer in a fox. I hope to eventually covert to black interior.



And now some icons that I never seen before that crack me up:
:trip: :sheep::roast:
Scott