Anybody ever done it? Or seen it?
doh! wrong forum. sorry.
Moved it to the appropriate forum.
Wanna be more specific?
he's talking like in the mn12's how you can gain acsess into the trunk through the back seat. My cutlass has that option. iand it does come in handy!
There's a cross bracing behind the back seat rest inside foxes, so folding the seat down wouldn't do too much good anyway.
I'm going to put the rear seat in the convertible on a hinge. But that's a different story.
I haven't seen a split rear seat in a Fox car yet. It would make for an interesting mod. Once the seat is cut in half, it would have to get reupholstered, and the wire frame on the backside should probably be redone for support. I would surmise that one could even keep the rear fold-down armrest if they're careful enough.
The metal behind the rear seat...that's where it gets tricky. Re-routing of wires would be the tough part. Cutting out the diagonal braces would be mandatory, but so would a tube/box frame around the perimeter. Only then would you have the strength and support needed to have a full pass-through area.
My Fox rear seat folds down. Oh Yea! it's a Cougar station wagon....:burnout:
Not sure how much that 'X' does. I moved my premium sound module to the underside of the package tray between the speakers. With some effort, the wiring could be rerouted, the crossbraces removed, and some reinforcement added if necessary.
My SWAG is that Fox Mustang seats would be the best place to start. Not sure how wide MN12 seats are, or what other car would make a good candidate for donor.
Hadn't thought about modifying the existing seat, maybe use the Mustang hardware with T-bird cushions?
Well, I've tried to fit Mustang rear seats in our cars before and they really don't work well. Not to dash your hopes...it's just that the floorpans between the two cars are so different. So yeah, maybe just using Mustang hardware may work.
hey that was my idea who told u:flip:
It wouldn't be too hard to build a sturdy light weight frame to keep the seat back rigid and then cover the frame with some factory appearing carpet material for the back.Hmmmmm.I may have to get in on this action soon.
now you need a welder, Vinnie
I've wanted fold-down rear seats for forever. It would be pretty cool to do. I'm thinking that pirating a complete setup from another car would make things easier, esp with the latching mechanisms, but like Eric said, the floorpans are different so some fabrication would be necessary.
Between you and Kitz making be buy stuff,I'll never have any money.LOL.
Hey guys, (out of the blue after months I return :) Anyway, I've wanted to do this as well (ever since the SN dash swap). I've seen it done in a hatchback mustang using the SN seats and it looks killer. But the hatchback stangs are already setup for the narrow seats, where as we are more like a notch where the top half of the upper portion of the seat extends further out, above the wheel wells. But I think this is the way I'm going to eventually plan mine, since I will most likely run SN seats later as well (even though I just got mine recovered front and rear). So, it looks like some custom fiberglassing to extend the rear side panels will go along with the metal work
Well taking it from another car would be great, But what car? I think it wouldn't be too difficult to mod your existing seat. All you would have to do is mesure out where you would want it to split at and weld in new supports then skin out the back so its solid enough for it to hold its shape as it folds. And with the rear seat frame, all i would do is build a frame going around the opening and tie in your supports that are existing. Then with that frame work already there the latching mechignisims can attatch to that point.
Hey take a seat out of a 96-99 Taurus, my 97 SHO had a tube frame around the assy. everything was all built into the frame and seat back latch and all and I don't think it'd be way to different size wise. Just my 2 cents.
well if thats the case i could mesure my back seat in my taurus to get the demensions.
I don't think that'd look bad either. I doubt there'd be much of a diff but I'm just guessing.
Hmmmmmmm,I'll be checking into that.