SUB FRAMES FOR DRIVER / PASSENGER SEAT

[Terry]

Hi
I have fitted Scorpio leather ,all electric seats to my Mk 6,
just needed to make up 8 angle iron brackets which we welded to the seats original subframe then bolted those down to the vans mounting
( hopefully there'll be a couple of pics here)


I have also kept the pre-tensionaers, but I don't know if it will go
through an MOT, like this.

[Luke]

when i got my mk1 it had scorpio seats fitted -not leather though! only when i took them out recently i saw the heaters for them - just never been wired up!
Terry your seats look ace - i'd have them in mine but i need the double passanger which is a shame kinda restricts what i can fit!!

[madmark]

wow they look very comphy!

[Terry]

They are fine, the adjusters all work ,I have wired in the heaters but the wife kept them on for an hour or so one cold evening & melted the fuses ,
holders and all !
So I have put in one of those 30 amp fuses for a hi-power amp, and blown that too, so I reckon some wiring has melted.
When I bought the van it had a twin on the passenger side, but I had it swapped for a single before delivery (at no cost).
I couldn't find anyone who wanted the originals so finished up
binning them, as the cloth was deteriorating... the only thing is I miss
the armrest.

[FredTransit]

OOh they look comfy!

[sean]

hi all i must get you some pictures of my seats and frames, tomorrow probably, vishlida, i think i saw a nice set of seat mounts on here th other day, i think they were in a mk1 or mk2 white with blue intirior in the gallery? they consisted of two 12"ish square plates top and bottom, the lower one picking up th subframe mounting holes in the floor, the other the mounting holes in the seat sub frame or just welded to the seat sub frame, and joined up in the middle with a 4" o/d 7or8" long piice of round tube hope this helps dude, i'll get some photos on here tomorrow

[cad69]

Sorry about the size. I'm doing well for a Luddite to manage these!

Basic tubular frame on Mk1:


The seats:


New aquisition to replace above frames... swival bases...



Cad.

[Sundowner]

Hey cad what did the swivel bases cost ya?

I have a set in my van but had to adjust them a little as they locked in off center, Its an easy job if you need to do it just give me a yell

[cad69]

Yo Sundowner

I only paid $70 (30quid) for them. Have one of those wreckers close to Syd where you remove the pieces yourself and then proceed to a checkout. I reckon I did well or they didn't know what they were. They were sitting square when I took them out. Picked up the window regulator in the rear of pic for $30 when a Melb wrecker charged me $100.

There's an excellent lower mk2 front end there with discs for $200. I'll wait until I change diff to lsd so I wont have to carry two spares.

I've been told that the 250 crossflow motor doesn't give much more power that the other..... what do you know about that?

Cad.

[Sundowner]

250ci log is 97kw and 258nm

XF unleaded 250 is 97.3kw and 316nm

[jay]

here is what i am fitting to my luton.1 st pic is a irmisher suspension seat from my lorry(I fitted a air seat to that and had this to spare)

I used a thick piece of steel and welded it to the seat frame and drilled four holes for the seat to bolt to(I used a sierra gls seats)the red bit is the metal.


the pic here is the under neath view of the seat

the i drilled the floorpan to suit the runners of the seat and put a streanther under the floor..

[critch]

i got an old aavanwitha pairof leather sports seats in ithink ford anyway whoever made the seat boxes did a wicked job the original seatrunner are still on the car seats if you want i can photo for you andsend sizes etc