Interior and Upholstery Seat bracket adapters?

[nickyb]

Ordered new seats on cyber Monday and I would like to make adapters to use my seat brackets Corbeau sells the adapters but they just look like flat stock with four holes drilled.Anyone have experience with these? Opinions welcome.

 

[nickyb]

This is them

 

[Mustang5L5]

No experience with the corbeau brackets. I bought brackets from Planted Seat Engineering and have no complaints other than the cost. There are knock-offs on ebay for cheaper. Unsure the compatibility with the Corbeau seats. You can certainly make some on your own, but it comes down to a time vs money thing.


Edit: looks like the knockoff brackets are no longer cheap

 

[nickyb]

Yeah corbeau has nice bracket$$$$ but a economic alternative was the bracket adapters.This way my stock brackets,witch are in great shape, can be used with the new seats. It looks like the reviews on AM 's site say it's just flat stock with holes drilled in it, homie has flat stock cheap enough and I got a drill or two,I'll measure and possibly do a how to.

 

[Mustang5L5]

Ahh....I misunderstood.

yesh, if you can drill and weld, looks like it would be more cost effective to DIY

 

[nickyb]

Well I have been accused of being a cheap d.i.y. guy in the past, it's just I feel if I can do it and save $$$ why not. This stems from buying our house new in 2000, and having to through so called pros out of our house because of shoddy work. I would rather learn how to do it myself and buy tools( added bonus). I've built window treatments, kitchen island, plumbing fixture replacements,change to electrical rocker switches,ceiling fans, landscape irrigation system,ect. An added benefit is I'm proud of my work.

 

[2000xp8]

I think you should post up what brackets the seats require.
I used wedge engineering brackets (recaro) but i'm not familiar with what you are talking about.

I also tried using fords brackets that they used in 79 pace cars and similar, raised the seats too high.

 

[nickyb]

I'm talking about using my factory 93 lx sport seat brackets. I was going to make my own adapters like the ones they sell at American muscle.

 

[nickyb]

Well well well what the hell. I checked the underside of the corbeau seats and they have multiple holes to use. I did some measuring and my stock brackets are 14 inches center to center. One set of holes in new seats are 14 inches apart, yahoo.Not so fast. That's the width the length is 14 and 3/4 inches and you guess it non of the holes match.Sooooooo, I measured and drilled a new hole in my stock brackets 1and1/2 inches from the front and that worked perfect.