Hello everyone recently I tried putting a recaro bucket seat in the maverick. The floor is uneven so I made some spacers for the right side, about 2" IIRC. I then bolted through the floor with new holes and used mega big flat washers and good hardware. The results? Seat feels awesome but wiggles back and forth and moves the floor board!!! What is the proper way to attach a seat like this with a flat base? Also are the nice aluminum "race" style seats mounted the same way (4 bolts on a flat rail) or is there a better mounting system? (Single center sliding rail)
Was the car originally equipped with bucket seats? If not and the seats are mounted in locations that are flexing?(no factory reinforcements).. then you'll probably need to run soem homemade reinforcement straps around those particular bolt hole/s. Also keep in mind that 2 inches seems to be a bit tall for single/individual spacers and may allow more independant flexing. Might want to see if you can come up with a rail-type riser(if you have to bolts opposite each other running along a flat section of the floor pan) which will not allow each one to wobble independantly of the other.
I like the way he did that. I am thinking it is a combination of my floor being weak and also my damn old recaro buckets are loose at the seatback they have some slop in them. I am eyeballin a set of them kirkey aluminum drag seats. Bolt through the floor then bolt to the roll bar I don't have yet.
Or you could weld in a set of the Mustang seat pans which will give you a flat platform to bolt to. This also seriously stiffens the chassis.
