seat conversion

oggyknob · 10-01-2008, 05:53 PM

I,m thinking about putting BA seats into my AU Ute.

: has anyone done this or know how difficult it will be???

chief · 10-01-2008, 09:37 PM

The seat bases need to be changed in order to get them to fit. A bit if an exercise to do but doable . Best bet is to get your existing seat retrimmed with new foam and leather.

superroo · 10-01-2008, 10:21 PM

REDXR347 was talking about doing this not to long ago, here some info that i dug up for him

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Originally Posted by superroo

As for ba seats into an au, "bomber" that used to be on here did it not long before he got banned. He is still on ford mods I think as he was a member there. Whether he checks it or not is another thing.

From what I can remember, he put the BA seats onto the AU rails

Cheers

[EDIT]
just found this info

Quote:

Originally Posted by bomber

Needs a fair bit of modification its running the standard BA rails hence electrics and the AU mount pionts are welded to the bottom of the BA rails.

And this

Quote:

Originally Posted by bomber

Yeah a fair bit of modification was needed used the mounts of an au rail on the bottom of the ba rail removed all the BA mounts and had to offset the au mounts slightly on it.

Cheers

oggyknob · 11-01-2008, 03:38 PM

Thanks for the advise. i agree that re foaming and covering my AU seats would be the smartest thing to do. For the record there is nothing wrong with my seats but i have the opportunity swap seats for free. And the Black leather seats (XR8) will look so much better than my cloth XR6 seats.

FGII-XR6 · 11-01-2008, 09:16 PM

why do it the AU ones are way more comfortable for a long drive. ask any cabbie

Homes · 11-01-2008, 09:48 PM

yeah, the AU seats have much better lumbar support

AU2PWR · 11-01-2008, 11:54 PM

Why not go to the Wreckers and Grab a Set of Rails and a Standard BA A55 bit and try it out ..