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Did you have to remove that bracket for more clearance as mentioned in another thread. Thank you.
I did.
Initially I thought I wouldn't have to but I was running in clearance issues. I had to trim the plastic seat trim as well.
I'm 6 ft and needed my seat further back, the plastic trim bound up on the seat belt trim panel when I moved the seat all the way rearward.
If you don't need the seat more than halfway back or so, it seems that you can leave the trim alone
I did.
Initially I thought I wouldn't have to but I was running in clearance issues. I had to trim the plastic seat trim as well.
I'm 6 ft and needed my seat further back, the plastic trim bound up on the seat belt trim panel when I moved the seat all the way rearward.
If you don't need the seat more than halfway back or so, it seems that you can leave the trim alone
I want to use all the travel available, looks like I will have to hack the bracket. Thanks
Very nice and excellent write-up. The new seats look great.
If anyone is looking for quality C7 seats, I still have these custom Leatherseats C7 seats for sale and will bump the thread in the FS sections. I held these for a local “friend of a friend” for two months who backed out last week after wrecking his C5Z. I also have the Vetteworks harness. These have never been installed.
Did you have to remove that bracket for more clearance as mentioned in another thread. Thank you.
Don't cut the bracket.
Replace your c5 seatbelts with c6 seatbelts -- the c6 seatbelts don't have a tensioner on the bottom. Once installed, you can simple cut off a piece of the plastic cover on the car, and you'll get full seat travel
Very nice and excellent write-up. The new seats look great.
If anyone is looking for quality C7 seats, I still have these custom Leatherseats C7 seats for sale and will bump the thread in the FS sections. I held these for a local “friend of a friend” for two months who backed out last week after wrecking his C5Z. I also have the Vetteworks harness. These have never been installed.
if you want to sell the harness alone I’m looking for one. Thanks
Don't cut the bracket.
Replace your c5 seatbelts with c6 seatbelts -- the c6 seatbelts don't have a tensioner on the bottom. Once installed, you can simple cut off a piece of the plastic cover on the car, and you'll get full seat travel
I’d much rather cut up the seat than interior panels on the car, but to each their own.
The C6 belts would be nice, if there was a clean way to do it without chopping up the interior.
Last edited by lobuzz311; Jul 19, 2024 at 11:37 AM.
I sourced all the connectors and parts to finally make my harness more permanent / OEM looking.
Given that I have a C5Z, I don't have a power seat plug on the passenger side. I was originally going to power it from the driver side, and run a patch wire to the driver harness over the top of the tunnel. Now that I'm ready to actually do it, though, I'm wondering if there's something better / easier to tap into in the passenger side / passenger footwell where the fuse box is.
Thoughts?
I found it easy to pull the fuse box from the footwell and actually add the pins into the box and run wires directly to the seat as if it had come that way from the factory. There was actually already a fuse in the correct spot even though the car wasn’t wired that way from the factory (Z06)…
[QUOTE=Best C5;1608100276]I found it easy to pull the fuse box from the footwell and actually add the pins into the box and run wires directly to the seat as if it had come that way from the factory. There was actually already a fuse in the correct spot even though the car wasn’t wired that way from the factory (Z06)…
For me, it was just cleaner that way.[
/QUOTE]
it is very easy to run a wire from the driver side harness don’t need to play with the fuse box and I don’t know what you mean by « cleaner »
Last edited by captain vette; Aug 21, 2024 at 08:55 AM.
I ended up running it over the tunnel as well, piggy-backing off of the driver's side harness. Managed to make it plenty clean enough with all OEM connectors and wire harness tape.
I found it easy to pull the fuse box from the footwell and actually add the pins into the box and run wires directly to the seat as if it had come that way from the factory. There was actually already a fuse in the correct spot even though the car wasn’t wired that way from the factory (Z06)…
For me, it was just cleaner that way.[
/QUOTE]
it is very easy to run a wire from the driver side harness don’t need to play with the fuse box and I don’t know what you mean by « cleaner »
i guess when I say cleaner, I just mean as it would have been done at the factory. It probably took us each the same amount of time and I just didn’t want to mess with pulling the console out to run wires over the hump. I’m not knocking the other way, I almost did it that way. At the end of the day, either works.
I also wanted dedicated power to each seat because if I ever figure out the seat heaters I don’t know how many amps they pull. I wanted each seat on a separate fuse for that purpose.
That's how I did mine.. There's one wire and ground that literally turns on the fans when power is applied to the wire. Give it 12v and it's full speed vent. Power it with anything less and it'll spin slower. So I have my seats on a two position toggle switch that feeds either 12v or 5v (from a step down regulator) to get my high/low. Truth be told though, in the summer it's always on high.. Heh
My base concept would be full on or off for the need and function. Makes sense to me. I'll go that way the first time out to confirm function. Knowing me, later I'll go back with a rheostat just to see if it's worthwhile.
I am hoping the heated pads can be figured out. If not, I'll recruit a friend or two to help me figure out how.
My base concept would be full on or off for the need and function. Makes sense to me. I'll go that way the first time out to confirm function. Knowing me, later I'll go back with a rheostat just to see if it's worthwhile.
I am hoping the heated pads can be figured out. If not, I'll recruit a friend or two to help me figure out how.
Somebody on here is bragging that they did. In the end, even the pads are turned on with just 12v applied somewhere. Probably not too difficult to figure out. If you wanna get fancy, you could employ an esp32 microcontroller to send the right CAN packets to the modules in the c7 seats, to turn on these functions.. Hehe
