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    how hard?

    how hard would it be to fit ford recaro seats in my cavalier, with the use of a welder?

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    Re: how hard?

    depends on the amount of work you need to do and if you need to fabricate brackets etc.
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    Re: how hard?

    remove the escort subframes and weld the escort seats to the cav subfames

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    Re: how hard?

    If you take the ford subframe off totaly, then you can bolt the seat frame(rail in the bottom) Almost direct to the cav frame. Well this can be done on a nova subframe which are very alike.
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    Re: how hard?

    I thought all recaro seats were the same fundamentally and they only fitted different frames according to the make and model of car they were going into.
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    Re: how hard?

    no these are ford recaro's like what you get in rs turbos

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    Re: how hard?

    Quote Originally Posted by tommychimp View Post
    I thought all recaro seats were the same fundamentally and they only fitted different frames according to the make and model of car they were going into.
    They are all the same. Its the subframes that are different, hence why i said take them off and bolt the seat base to the cav subframe. Thats how i did mine worked perfect.
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    Re: how hard?

    well this is what i did when i swapped my MK2 GTE fronts into the astra as I wanted to retain the seatbelt tensioners.
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    Re: how hard?

    Sounds like we did the same thing...
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    Re: how hard?

    Quote Originally Posted by Benn View Post
    Sounds like we did the same thing...
    Dude thats some spooky shizzle. lmao
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    Re: how hard?

    i have proton recaro's in my corsa
    bit of jiggery pokery but they look shweet
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    Re: how hard?

    ive ended up gettin a vectra b sri interior cheap, will that got straight into my cav or will i have to take them off runners?

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    Re: how hard?

    Quote Originally Posted by breastinspector View Post
    ive ended up gettin a vectra b sri interior cheap, will that got straight into my cav or will i have to take them off runners?
    Not by a long shot. You'll be doing the same thing as you would of the recaros.
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