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went to the Bone yard and found these Sport Seats

I paid $18 a piece. I did not think that was too bad for electric seats. My question is will the manual track fit on the bottom of these? I have the sport model that has no set up for electric seats and I want to keep the weight down.

If the manual seat tract does work, than the electric motor, tracks and the air compressor will be for sale.

went to the Bone yard and found these Sport Seats

Reply #1 –
I do know that on standard Tbird seats, the manual tracks are interchangable with the power ones. All they do is bolt to the same four holes in the bottom of the seat frames. It's a good bet that the sport seats are the same because it is highly unlikely Ford would have tooled up separate power tracks to use only for the sport seats. I would try it as it is not really that time consuming to do it.

I do know if you go back to the parts car that you snagged the power seats from, snag the wiring harness from under the seat over to the power seat switches including the switches themselves. All you really need is to feed the seats is 12v+ fused or better plug in circuit breaker and a ground. You have options mounting your switch. If the donar car has the correct console switch plate, you can use that. If not you should be able to open up the spaces in your existing console trim. The underside usually has the cutouts and mounting screw tabs in place. All you would need to do is carefully open up the flat aluminum trim on the top surface so the switches will poke through.

For instance, my car has the power driver's seat only. Looking at the back side of my console plate there is a provision for mounting the extra passenger side switch.

went to the Bone yard and found these Sport Seats

Reply #2 –
Yes, the manual seet racks will bolt on. I installed Sport/TC seats into my car and used my manual racks for the same reason (weight). I believe the manual racks will bolt onto existing holes at the front of the seat, but will use a different set of holes at the rear (or vice versa). The holes are there, but they're not tapped. The factory bolts that hold the racks on are self-tapping and will tap the new holes as you twist them in.
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went to the Bone yard and found these Sport Seats

Reply #3 –
Can you post pics of these seats?
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