Its seems to be ages since I've done any serious tinkering so I've finally got round to modifying some old Porsche seats to fit an old polo. the Porsche seats just have 2 rails that bolt to the floor but the polo seats have a couple of rear legs are an front rail that runs down the centre of the seat.
first thing is to tack a bar across the rear legs of the polo seat to keep their position relative to one another and then tack another bar at right angle to that to keep the position of the centre rail, and then tack a piece of sheet steel to that and bolt that to the centre rail
then cut the back legs and centre rail from the old seat
then check the fit of the old Polo seat parts on the Porsche seat runners
the curved rail joining the two sides was too tall so that was cut almost through and tacked up and the fit was tried again (these were later seam welded)
although I did forget to check to see that the seat adjuster worked until after I welded the rail in place and then found it didn't so spent ages getting enough gap so the adjuster would work
then remove the bars that I welded on to keep everything in position ( a standard Porsche seat is in the background)
and another supporting rail at the front
and then shorten the centre rail, and the position operating lever that goes next to it.
only got another one to do now.... why do I say I'll do things for mates, although I like doing things like this, as it makes me think ......but last week someone asked if I could do a bit of welding for them, to which I said as long as its simple and not on the car......he said it was the exhaust and it was still on the car.... and everyone loves a comedian ,
if I don't get under my own cars in winter, I'm not exactly going to be working on anyone else's
and I'm not free labour to get your car through an MOT
especially as I've never done any work for money on cars, its purely a hobby for me.
although it did make me laugh when I saw someone advertising custom seat subframes for a polo to fit bucket seats (shown below) for £100 a pair.......really, they're just standard seat frames with 2 strips of steel welded on them, and the original seats you can get for nothing... sometimes I think I'm doing the wrong job
first thing is to tack a bar across the rear legs of the polo seat to keep their position relative to one another and then tack another bar at right angle to that to keep the position of the centre rail, and then tack a piece of sheet steel to that and bolt that to the centre rail
then cut the back legs and centre rail from the old seat
then check the fit of the old Polo seat parts on the Porsche seat runners
the curved rail joining the two sides was too tall so that was cut almost through and tacked up and the fit was tried again (these were later seam welded)
although I did forget to check to see that the seat adjuster worked until after I welded the rail in place and then found it didn't so spent ages getting enough gap so the adjuster would work
then remove the bars that I welded on to keep everything in position ( a standard Porsche seat is in the background)
and another supporting rail at the front
and then shorten the centre rail, and the position operating lever that goes next to it.
only got another one to do now.... why do I say I'll do things for mates, although I like doing things like this, as it makes me think ......but last week someone asked if I could do a bit of welding for them, to which I said as long as its simple and not on the car......he said it was the exhaust and it was still on the car.... and everyone loves a comedian ,
if I don't get under my own cars in winter, I'm not exactly going to be working on anyone else's
and I'm not free labour to get your car through an MOT
especially as I've never done any work for money on cars, its purely a hobby for me.
although it did make me laugh when I saw someone advertising custom seat subframes for a polo to fit bucket seats (shown below) for £100 a pair.......really, they're just standard seat frames with 2 strips of steel welded on them, and the original seats you can get for nothing... sometimes I think I'm doing the wrong job