buckets to fit???

will it be a lot of trouble to put some buckets out of a 94 grand am gt in my 71 maverick.... what will i need to do????

please help

 

Just some work.. take the seat rails of your mav buckets and find some way to bolt the buckets onto the seat rails then bolt the buckets and rails into the car.

 

but my mav has the bench in it now

 

you will need mav bucket seat rails then.... or go real crazy and fabricate up your own (not reckamend but possible)

 

thanks i think i might use a coat hanger or some cable ties and hold em in place and just try not to stop to fast or hit anything jk

 

Don't forget the duct tape, miracles can be made with that stuff. ha ha

 

yeah i got the tape already it makes a nice comfy head rest for the back seats lol when i got the car the foam was stickin out everywhere on the top of the back seats so i went to walmart and bought some black duct tape

 

this is what i did. i work in a tow yard and i came across some nice seats out of a 92 dodge something car. i had a bench seat in my mav. so i replaced the bolts that were coming out of the seat rails with longer ones for the inside sides of the seats. its not flat in there so this has to be done. if you dont have the original bucket rails, its a hit and miss or you can use a 2 by 4 and some thing on both sides of the car on a flat surface. then you measure down where the seats will sit flat. the best thing to do is have a piece of cardboard to use as a template for the seat hole positions. you may have to make all new holes like i did. after marking and drilling them, do the measuring to see how long the bolts have to be. then you have to either use washers or spacers of the right thickness to raise the inside middle of the seats. i know this is confusing but this can be done. make sure though that your steering wheels lines up with the center of your seat or it will be off. that is also what making a template is good for. its compicated and it takes a while but you can do it. just trying to help! mike

 

alright good idea thankyou

 

if you need any help at all let me know! you can do this. mike

 

Mike; don't feel bad, I have buckets from a '96 Honda Civic. Nice and comfy, though.

 

hey i bet those are nice! they wont let me take any that are that new as they sell the cars that are nice. nice seat usually means nice car. unfortunate. mike

 

Have a look at this:
http://mmb.maverick.to/showthread.php?t=6109&highlight=finally
There are lots of crashed Eclipses in the world.

 

I'm in the middle of switching out to bucket seats too. I'm fabricating the brackets as I go. I had to cut and grind off the old brackets as they were just completely different than the mav floorboard. After I did that, I started making some brackets out of 1" box steel and welding them up. Let me give you one piece of advice, double and triple check your measurements, and do when the car is sitting on LEVEL on FLAT GROUND (no jack stands). I learned that one the hard way, I thought I had it leveled, but turns out I didn't so now I have to "adjust" the brackets. It's a lot of work, but it's also a lot of fun to do this. If you have a 4" electric grinder and a small welder, you should have everything you need to do this though.

 

I installed the eclipse seats after Ray posted it. It was an easy install. I used the eclipse seat rails. I had to shimm the passenger side alittle more than the drivers side.