I see no reason why that procedure wouldn't work. Especially if you're willing to have some flat "keeper tabs" fabbed, to hold the rear seat mounting to the floor.Originally Posted by mrtew
This picture of the rear of the seat track is taken from the side looking in the driver's door. I'm talking about flipping-over the bent black bracket that's bolted onto the floor with the green bolt and attached to the seat rail with a rivet and welds according to the description. It looks like there's just enough room on the floor for it to be flipped (although you can't tell in the picture) and if not maybe it would be easy to just replace the bracket with a straight piece of metal. Can someone else please try it first and tell me how it goes??? ;-]
Personally, I've taken it one step farther when I installed my racer boy seats, by drilling the spot welds/rivets to remove the rear mount, thus lowering the rear of the rails all the way to the floor. That gained about 3/4-1" IIRC. For my application, that wasn't enough...so I scribed a line parallel with the floor, from the top rear of the slider to about 2-3" fwd on the bottom of the slider rail. Then I got out the mini grinder & cut a pie shaped cross section from the rear of the slider, lowering the rear about another 3/4".
Then it's just a matter of fabbing some keeper tabs that'll hold down the rear.
They need to be shaped like a big keyhole, so the skinny part can overlay the very center indent of the slider rail, & the round part will go under the bolt head.
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