Porsche seats in a T25
Posted: 27 May 2012, 18:09
I had the seats from my Porsche 911 SC standing in the garage after a change to bucket seats in the Porsche. Now I wanted to know how difficult it would be to put the Porsche seats in the VW.
Not that difficult...
I read the posts in wikipedia about the Saab seats and used that as a start.
First i measured the difference between the VW seats and noticed that the Porsche seats were 20 mm wider than the Transporter runners.
But I also noticed that the Porsche seat sliders were bolted to the chair with two allen bolts which had the possibility for some adjustment...
(two different sliders on the two photos, but just to show you how they attach to the chair)
With a Dremel i filed the attachment holes between the chair and slider oval, to find the extra 10 mm per side that i needed...
And mounted on the chair...
To mount the chair to the VW-car i did just like in the wikipedia with the Saab Seats: https://club8090.co.uk/wiki/In ... ront_seats
M8 nut inserted in the VW-bus runners.
I'm not really happy with this solution but it will work for now. The best solution would be a rectangular piece of metal inserted in the runner, longer than two slots in the runner, drilled and threaded, just to have some more area to spread the load.
A new hole made to get the right distance to the hole in the Porsche seat sliders.
Now, just bolt the chairs in with M8x20 mm allen bolts to the nuts already inserted in the runners.
Doing it like this makes it all reversable: The Porsche chairs could go back into the Porsche without more modifications than adjusting the sliders distance to the Porsche runners by adjusting the allen bolt in the oval hole, the VW chairs could go back into the VW without any modifications
Now I just have to find some way to fix the drivers seat...
BILD
Not that difficult...
I read the posts in wikipedia about the Saab seats and used that as a start.
First i measured the difference between the VW seats and noticed that the Porsche seats were 20 mm wider than the Transporter runners.
But I also noticed that the Porsche seat sliders were bolted to the chair with two allen bolts which had the possibility for some adjustment...
(two different sliders on the two photos, but just to show you how they attach to the chair)
With a Dremel i filed the attachment holes between the chair and slider oval, to find the extra 10 mm per side that i needed...
And mounted on the chair...
To mount the chair to the VW-car i did just like in the wikipedia with the Saab Seats: https://club8090.co.uk/wiki/In ... ront_seats
M8 nut inserted in the VW-bus runners.
I'm not really happy with this solution but it will work for now. The best solution would be a rectangular piece of metal inserted in the runner, longer than two slots in the runner, drilled and threaded, just to have some more area to spread the load.
A new hole made to get the right distance to the hole in the Porsche seat sliders.
Now, just bolt the chairs in with M8x20 mm allen bolts to the nuts already inserted in the runners.
Doing it like this makes it all reversable: The Porsche chairs could go back into the Porsche without more modifications than adjusting the sliders distance to the Porsche runners by adjusting the allen bolt in the oval hole, the VW chairs could go back into the VW without any modifications
Now I just have to find some way to fix the drivers seat...
BILD
