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I have seen the Eckler's seat kit for modifying a pair of C-5 seats and using them in a C-3 car. At $229 plus shipping for aluminum frames and nuts and bolts it seemed a little expensive for what you get, at least to me. Now I know they have to cover their developmental costs, I get that, but it would be nice if someone has developed a safe and secure method for mounting the C-3 seat tracks to a C-5 seat frame without this huge expense. Maybe that is the only way to go, but before advising anyone to buy that kit I'd like to hear from this group.
C-5 seats in a C-3; tips, tricks, advice. Anyone?
Thank you in advance.
David Howard
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C-5 seats in a C-3; tips, tricks, advice. Anyone?
Thank you in advance.
David Howard
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on my 68 i made an aluminum spacer similar to the one they sell so I could still use the seat adjust and it put the seat too high. So then I bought a set of racing seat sliders that I had to modify to work....good height but the slides are crap.....That being said, my buddy john has a 76 and he just had to redrill the holes in the seats and they bolted right up. I would investigate what your hole pattern looks like with a cardboard template and then trace it onto the C5 seat and see if you get lucky. I'm going to re-investigate it since i have some time and see if I can just add a spacer to the front and maybe a dogleg bracket for the back.
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I simply bolted the C3 rails to the C5 seat frames. I used some existing holes and had to also drill and tap some holes to bolt the C3 seat rails to the frames. On the passenger seat I had to swap the normal position of the C3 seat rails to put the rail with the adjustment arm on the inside. Doing this required cutting off the adjustment arm and welding it on the other side of the rail, and some minor clearance notching of the seat frame. If you don’t swap the passenger side rails, you will have to raise the seat frame off the rail to clear the adjustment mechanism. You cannot keep the C5 power seat mechanism mounting them the way I did. I needed the seats to be installed as low as the stock C3 seats were because I am tall.
Also, the early C3 floor pans are pretty flat, while the later C3 floor pans are not, which causes more issues.
Also, the early C3 floor pans are pretty flat, while the later C3 floor pans are not, which causes more issues.
