tryingbe
02-14-2016, 10:39 PM
Found me a pair of Recaro seats off a Saturn Ion blue/dark blue (Cobalt seats have SS on them and are black). They were left outside, dusty and sad. For $60, I couldn't pass up.
http://www.thelostartof.net/tryingbe/dodge/omniproject/2015build/recaro/dirty.jpg
Gave them some cleaning.
http://www.thelostartof.net/tryingbe/dodge/omniproject/2015build/recaro/pic48.jpg
Stock seats bracket. Lots of surface rust. Recaro didn't paint the half the brackets:confused:, and the brackets are riveted in using 3/8 steel rivets. :mad: I had to grind every rivet then hammer them out. :faint::faint::faint:
http://www.thelostartof.net/tryingbe/dodge/omniproject/2015build/recaro/pic49.jpg
I took the stock brackets off the Omni seats, make the cross brackets out of the sheet metal and modified the brackets on the Recaro seats to make them work with the cross brackets. The driver seats have height adjustment, I had to take that out because the seats would be too high and my legs will hit the steering wheel.
http://www.thelostartof.net/tryingbe/dodge/omniproject/2015build/recaro/pic51.jpg
http://www.thelostartof.net/tryingbe/dodge/omniproject/2015build/recaro/pic52.jpg
http://www.thelostartof.net/tryingbe/dodge/omniproject/2015build/recaro/pic53.jpg
http://www.thelostartof.net/tryingbe/dodge/omniproject/2015build/recaro/pic54.jpg
Took me a day and a half from start to finish, rivets took the most time to grind and hammer out. $60 seats, $20 of sheet metal, $40 worth of bolts, washers, and nuts. New seats look great, certainly better than the 31 year old CS seats I had in there. Passenger side seat about .5-1 inch higher than stock, driver side is about the same, maybe even a little lower after I took out the height adjustment brackets.
http://www.thelostartof.net/tryingbe/dodge/omniproject/2015build/recaro/pic56.jpg
http://www.thelostartof.net/tryingbe/dodge/omniproject/2015build/recaro/pic61.jpg
http://www.thelostartof.net/tryingbe/dodge/omniproject/2015build/recaro/dirty.jpg
Gave them some cleaning.
http://www.thelostartof.net/tryingbe/dodge/omniproject/2015build/recaro/pic48.jpg
Stock seats bracket. Lots of surface rust. Recaro didn't paint the half the brackets:confused:, and the brackets are riveted in using 3/8 steel rivets. :mad: I had to grind every rivet then hammer them out. :faint::faint::faint:
http://www.thelostartof.net/tryingbe/dodge/omniproject/2015build/recaro/pic49.jpg
I took the stock brackets off the Omni seats, make the cross brackets out of the sheet metal and modified the brackets on the Recaro seats to make them work with the cross brackets. The driver seats have height adjustment, I had to take that out because the seats would be too high and my legs will hit the steering wheel.
http://www.thelostartof.net/tryingbe/dodge/omniproject/2015build/recaro/pic51.jpg
http://www.thelostartof.net/tryingbe/dodge/omniproject/2015build/recaro/pic52.jpg
http://www.thelostartof.net/tryingbe/dodge/omniproject/2015build/recaro/pic53.jpg
http://www.thelostartof.net/tryingbe/dodge/omniproject/2015build/recaro/pic54.jpg
Took me a day and a half from start to finish, rivets took the most time to grind and hammer out. $60 seats, $20 of sheet metal, $40 worth of bolts, washers, and nuts. New seats look great, certainly better than the 31 year old CS seats I had in there. Passenger side seat about .5-1 inch higher than stock, driver side is about the same, maybe even a little lower after I took out the height adjustment brackets.
http://www.thelostartof.net/tryingbe/dodge/omniproject/2015build/recaro/pic56.jpg
http://www.thelostartof.net/tryingbe/dodge/omniproject/2015build/recaro/pic61.jpg