(GM) Recaro seats in Omni

[tryingbe]

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.



Gave them some cleaning.



Stock seats bracket. Lots of surface rust. Recaro didn't paint the half the brackets, and the brackets are riveted in using 3/8 steel rivets. I had to grind every rivet then hammer them out.



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.









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.

[cordes]

That's awesome. I would love something like that in my omni. I've got ideas out the wazoo, but no real action taken. You're head and shoulders above me on that front to say the least.

[2.216VTurbo]

Like! My project RedBox needs front seats...

[johnl]

Sweet; well done.

[BadAssPerformance]

Nice!