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Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 7:46 pm 
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i know that the rear inner brackets are different but how hard is it to make em fit??
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Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 7:58 pm 
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need to make up a bracket OR get a peice of round tubbing weld it to the bottom of the bracket and get another tub smaller than the orginal and slot it in the first tube and get a bolt roughly with the same head type (as no to get susspions) and length of the tube plus a little more then the length of the tube

But i say this i haven't put it into practice and it is highly not legal...

 

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Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 11:05 pm 
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ok i was thinkin more on the line of take eb rails and attach to el seats but im no einstein
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Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 11:09 pm 
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or that lol

 

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Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 2:40 pm 
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maybe even easier just to put in some bucket seats??
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Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 5:35 pm 
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Don't think so.
I put "universal" buckets into my EA Ghia and had a prick of time making up brackets to adapt the rails to the seat.
I would've thought the idea of EB rails on EL seats would work.

 

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Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 11:04 pm 
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I hope it is just that simple.

I have read that ppl end up sitting higher with EF/EL seats in EA-ED cars.

Someone who has done this will hopefully let us know.

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Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 9:08 am 
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ok next week i am going to take on the challenge i will remove a seat and see if you can bolt the el seat to the eb frame i will keep you posted
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Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 11:09 am 
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yep u do sit a lil higher,,and if your short and usally have your seat all the way forwd u will notice its a tiny bit further back.,,i just cut the inner foot off some eb rails and had them welded on to the ef seats and u got to grind a small pin off to get the foot to sit rite..also u gain about 2inches of space at the base of the rear seat..take your consol out when doin it and be carful of damaging anything lifting seats in,,i had to put them in and take em out a few times to get it where i wanted it before welding

 

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Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 2:52 pm 
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So did you find the conversion worthwhile?

Are the seats much better than the EA/ED seats?

Hmmmmm something to think about.

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Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 10:06 pm 
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yep i get asked about them all the time.,comfy

 

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Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 10:28 pm 
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finally i post a decent thread haha!!! just wait the next 1 rocks long time in the making...
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Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 4:25 pm 
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ok just get some ED ghia leather seats... ahh the best seats ford has made

 

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Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 6:58 pm 
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arn't the ghia leather just like covered XR seats????


but any way you getting any were with this?

 

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