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Re: Relocating your seat tracks.
Here are some pics to add to this thread of when I swapped out my '67 seats to '90 seats and used the tracks from the '90 seats. I didn't cut my floor pans or drill any addtl. holes in the floor.
First I drilled/chiseled the 'feet' off the '90 sliders that make it sit higher and ended up with flat sliders that look like the '67's. I used piece of flat bar and drilled holes, then filed them square to use grade 6 carriage bolts so they would clear the slides. I had to flatten 2 sides on each carriage bolt so it would sit into the U groove of the slider, easy to do with my bench grinder.
I mounted them as far forward on the seat tracks as possible and the seat goes back farther than I even need at 6'1". The rear bolt is short so it doesn't catch the carpet when sliding the seat. I used a piece of alum. flat bar and bent it like a Z so my slider spring would still work. Wasn't too hard, no welding, they're much more comfortable and give me better whiplash protection. Next will be ordering seat covers to match the horizontal pattern of the orignal seats from TMI. There is also a built in electric lumbar support I haven't wired up yet and full recline is a plus.
As you can see they are almost the same dimensions seat height and width wise as the originals.
Jon
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'67 Mustang Coupe 289 AT modding Trans Am style
"If it ain't broke, I haven't fixed it yet"
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